Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Volume 28, Issue 2, Summer 2015

The Tulane Environmental Law Journal is in its twenty-eighth year of publication and is a component of the internationally respected environmental law program at Tulane University Law School. The Journal has been, and continues to be, one of the preeminent publications in the world focusing exclusively on environmental law issues. The Journal is published semi-annually and features articles authored by leading academics, practitioners, and student members.

Volume 28, Issue 2 includes:

ARTICLES
• “The Reckoning: Oil and Gas Development in the Louisiana Coastal Zone,” Oliver A. Houck
• “The Power of State Interest: Preemption of Local Fracking Ordinances in Home-Rule Cities,” Jamal Knight & Bethany Gullman
• “Local Land-Use Control, Constitutional Environmentalism, and Hydrofracking: New York and Beyond,” Jordan Lesser
• "Legacy Litigation—What Is Reasonable Behavior in the Oilfield?," Loulan J. Pitre, Jr. & D’Ann R. Penner
• “Natural Resource Restoration,” Allan Kanner

COMMENTS
• “Supplying the World’s Factory: Environmental Impacts of Chinese Resource Extraction in Africa,” Jessica Marsh
• "Black Gold Beneath the Loblolly Pines: The Takings Clause and Hydraulic Fracturing in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana," E. Carra Smith
• "Detect Them Before They Get Away: Fenceline Monitoring’s Potential To Improve Fugitive Emissions Management," Ralph Smith
• "The Convention on Biological Diversity: An Affectation of Conservation Exposed by the Interoceanic Chinese-Backed Nicaraguan Canal," Rachael Waxler Ruiz

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