Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Within the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin
I. Introduction
I. Introduction
In 1999, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 2000.1 Order 2000 gave public utilities the option to voluntarily participate in a regional transmission organization (RTO). A public utility participating in an RTO must give the RTO the right to manage its transmission system.
The beleaguered agency officials who administer the endangered species laws have been inundated with litigation challenging everything from the constitutionality of their statute to the soundness of their biological judgments. But recently, they are being challenged for relying on what they must have assumed to be an unimpeachable source of information--the classification of species by the official taxonomic organizations.
Publicly listed companies have been required to disclose "material" environmental information to investors for over 30 years. Environmental costs can be material when associated with air, groundwater, and waste site remediation, regulatory fines, and litigation that result in losses of millions of dollars, decreased shareholder value, and diminished corporate reputation. Such factors must be disclosed in a company's annual and quarterly reports that are filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
In 1999, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 2000.1 Order 2000 gave public utilities the option to voluntarily participate in a regional transmission organization (RTO). A public utility participating in an RTO must give the RTO the right to manage its transmission system.
The beleaguered agency officials who administer the endangered species laws have been inundated with litigation challenging everything from the constitutionality of their statute to the soundness of their biological judgments. But recently, they are being challenged for relying on what they must have assumed to be an unimpeachable source of information--the classification of species by the official taxonomic organizations.
Publicly listed companies have been required to disclose "material" environmental information to investors for over 30 years. Environmental costs can be material when associated with air, groundwater, and waste site remediation, regulatory fines, and litigation that result in losses of millions of dollars, decreased shareholder value, and diminished corporate reputation. Such factors must be disclosed in a company's annual and quarterly reports that are filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
This Article analyzes the revised new source review (NSR) rule and argues that it violates the Clean Air Act's (CAA's or the Act's) clean air mandate by changing the preexisting definition of the statutory term "change" and by extending the demand growth exclusion to all sources and creating several NSR-exempt project-based construction activities that are applicable to existing sources, without providing meaningful procedural safeguards.