Law 360 Quotes Energy Center Board Member Jeff Civins on Groundwater Decision
On August 28, 2013, a San Antonio appellate court issued the first major opinion involving groundwater takings under the new water rights doctrine the Texas Supreme Court established under its 2012...
View ArticleCenter Launches Fellowship for Law Students
The Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration and Environmental Law at The University of Texas School of Law has created a new fellowship program that recognizes students interested in...
View ArticleUsing Komesar’s Participation-Centered Model to learn more about...
In his path-breaking book, Imperfect Alternatives (1997), Neil Komesar develops a simple model for comparing the ability of institutions to address various social problems – for example the relative...
View ArticleManaging Texas Ground Water: More Difficult than Ever?
Managing the use of ground water in Texas has never been easy. But a recent string of cases, now topped off by a stunning Court of Appeals opinion in Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Bragg, will make it...
View ArticleTexas Cities Can Enforce State-Level Air Pollution Laws
In 2007, Houston created its own air quality program to enforce at the municipal level laws that the state would not. A local trade group with a masterfully euphemistic name – the Business Coalition...
View ArticleEdwards Aquifer and Desalination
Texas groundwater districts are grappling with thedifficult task of meeting mounting demands and preserving long-term supplies even as the recent Bragg decision has cast uncertainty over their...
View ArticleLCRA and the “Drought of Record”
The reservoirs Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis are the source of water on which most central Texans depend and which the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) manages. The reservoirs have experienced...
View ArticleNew Texas Statutes Aimed at Halting Zebra Mussels
Tomorrow marks the official end of summer and, in some sense, the traditional end of the boating season. In Central Texas, where year-round warm weather is a calling-card, we may not have to head for...
View ArticleTexas Tribune Quotes Energy Center on Bag Bans
A September 25 Texas Tribune article on plastic bag bans in Texas quotes Energy Center research fellow Jeremy Brown on the potential impact of a decision by the Texas Retailers Association to drop its...
View ArticleNew Water Infrastructure Advisory Committee Could Violate State Constitution
If voters approve Proposition 6 this November, the state will appropriate $2 billion from its Rainy Day Fund to a new water infrastructure bank. The bank – technically, the State Water Implementation...
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