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Getches-Wilkinson Center Water Law Fellows Jaime Garcia and Chelsea Colwyn filed an amicus brief on behalf of Eco-Cycle and Conservation Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ in an important environmental protection case On April 7, the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Board of County Commissioners of the County of La Plata County, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ...

2021 Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources: Are We Saved? Tempering Our Expectations for Natural Resources Management Under the Biden Administration Marcilynn A. Burke Dean and Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law University of Oregon School of Law Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Almost forty years ago, Dean Derrick...

13th Annual Schultz Lecture in Energy: Climate Change and Innovative Paths to a Sustainable Future Dr. Steven Chu U.S. Secretary of Energy 2009-2013 William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University Thursday, March 4, 2021 Multiple industrial and agricultural revolutions have profoundly...

Kayla Carey and Nathan Stottler are recent graduates of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s Masters of the Environment program specializing in environmental policy. They took Professor Sharon Jacobs’ Energy Law and Regulation class this past spring and have prepared their capstone project, Cooperatives at a Crossroads: Identifying the Opportunities and Challenges of Clean Energy...

A Report from the Acequia Assistance Project The Getches-Wilkinson Center is pleased to present the work of a team of students with the Acequia Assistance Project, who spent the last two years digging into the history, the politics, and law surrounding attempts to export water from the San Luis Valley...

Session One: Expanding the Toolbox of Water Financing Options Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Gone are the days when funding western water needs was merely a task of gaining Congressional authorization and appropriations for new dams and reservoirs. Today, federal funds are limited, and much of what needs to happen does...

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Public utilities occupy a unique position in the American economy. This unique position is currently the subject of fresh scrutiny, and various reformers propose radically divergent visions for the future of the electricity sector. This renewed scrutiny comes in the wake of that age-old herald of political upheaval: scandal. High-profile...

Much has been written about the interaction between COVID-19 and climate change. Proposals abound to build back better, to change societal norms, and to preserve pandemic-induced reduced consumption. At the same time, many of us are concerned that we are losing time and momentum for progress on implementing the Paris...

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