The United States has traditionally enlisted citizens in efforts to control industrial activity and its effects on public welfare. A growing energy revolution, however - led by a new method of extracting natural gas from shale called “slickwater hydraulic fracturing” (described in brief as...

This textbook for law and business school courses is organized roughly chronologically, according to the periods in history within which energy-related issues arose. Economic and environmental issues are integrated with energy resource issues: energy policy, energy in nature, the concept of a...

This Article presents a case study of agency waiver procedures, based on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) regulations for qualifying power generation facilities under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). After presenting a survey of the literature...