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The Regulation of Third Party Solar PPAs
The United States commercial power industry started on a small scale in the late 1800's with Thomas Edison's work leading to the first commercial power plant in 1882. Early in the Twentieth Century, users of electricity often generated their own power, but as the need for electricity grew, the need for the economies of scale that could be provided by utility generation and distribution became more important, and the first utilities were created...
GW Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Environmental Law Program
The GW Environmental Law Program ("ELP") celebrated its 40th Anniversary on November 6, 2010. The event included a panel on the Gulf Oil Spill and the Law, a luncheon with remarks from Arnold Reitze - the ELP's founder - and tours of the law school and university...
Greening the Tax Code
The close of 2010 witnessed the passage of one of the most significant pieces of tax legislation in nearly a decade, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. The legislation elicited significant debate and controversy, in large part because Congress' structuring of the Internal Revenue Code has an immense and direct impact on the nation's spending habits and how financing is allocated in our market system. So what does any of this have to do with energy and environmental law? Often overlooked is the capacity of the tax code to help in remedying the nation's energy and environmental problems. In this article, I identify one such energy and environmental problem, and how a revision to the tax code could play an important role in addressing this problem...