Room to Grow: Detroit Takes the First Steps to Legalize Urban Agriculture
Detroit is moving closer to legalizing urban agriculture within its city limits. Though there are as many as 355 urban farms and gardens in Detroit[i], they remain illegal due to current zoning rules...
View ArticleA Pipeline to a New Water Era?
My last blog post was about a pipeline to carry fuel. I thought it would be interesting to keep the same pipeline theme going for my latest post, so I decided to write about another proposed pipeline....
View ArticleObama’s Open Government Initiative: Progress Report
In President Obama’s first term in office, he made a bold promise to “usher in a new era of open government”[i] as he laid out his vision for increased transparency and accountability in the federal...
View ArticleCan’t Quite Get It Right: The EPA’s Failed Attempts at Interstate Pollution...
At the end of January, the EPA’s efforts to regulate ozone and fine particle were again frustrated, this time by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision not to reconsider its August...
View ArticleNo Laughing Matter: Utah’s Fight to Reclaim Federal Lands
On its face, Utah’s Transfer of Public Land Act (hereinafter “TPLA”)[i], like those recently passed by Arizona[ii] and Idaho[iii], seems as authoritative a demand as that of a child to his parent: (1)...
View ArticleWhy are Student Health Insurance Plans Treated Differently Under the...
President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA” or, more commonly, “Obamacare”) into law by on March 23, 2010.[1] Several provisions of this act, including the individual...
View ArticleContesting the Navy’s Authorization to ‘Take’ Marine Mammals Requires a...
On January 31, 2013, the Federal Register published a proposed rule that would allow the Navy to harm marine mammals on more than 31 million separate instances from 2014 to 2019.[1] The National Marine...
View ArticleFederal Power Lines
In President Obama’s recent Inaugural Address, he renewed the call for Federal action on climate change, a political and technical challenge that has stymied policymakers for decades. The national...
View ArticleFarm Bill to Face Strong Criticism from Every Angle…Again
The U.S. Farm bill is a piece of legislation addressing most of the federal government’s policies related to domestic agriculture. Traditionally, a new bill is passed every five years. The most...
View ArticleUrban Renewal and the Public Use Requirement
The takings issue has received much attention since the famous (or infamous) Kelo v. City of New London[1] decision. This blog post is intended to highlight the complexity behind a simple requirement,...
View ArticleLoopholes, Closed: D.C. Circuit Strikes Down EPA’s Exemption Provisions in...
In October 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a rule[i] exempting certain polluting facilities from conducting air-quality monitoring as part of the Clean Air Act’s permitting process....
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