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A. Dan Tarlock | October 12, 2012

Forty Years Later, Time to Turn in the CWA Clunker for Something Suited for the 21st Century

As the Clean Water Act (CWA) turns 40, it is useful to compare it to the cars on the road in 1972. Big cars, some still adorned with tail fins and grills, ruled the road, running on 36 cents per gallon gas.  Forty years later, we look back on the early 70s and ask how […]

A. Dan Tarlock | April 29, 2009

The First 100 Days: At Interior, Several Positive Developments, but the Jury is Still Out

This post is written by CPR Member Scholars Dan Tarlock and Holly Doremus How has the Department of Interior fared during the first 100 days? If history is any guide, the issue may be more important than many people assume. With one major and one minor exception, Secretaries of the Interior stay put in Democratic […]

A. Dan Tarlock, Holly Doremus | February 3, 2009

Takings Claims in the Klamath Basin

Tarlock and Doremus are co-authors of Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics, published by Island Press in 2008. Last week, the Oregon Supreme Court agreed to decide whether irrigators in the Klamath Basin "own" water delivered by the federal Klamath Reclamation Project. This latest development is one more […]

A. Dan Tarlock | January 19, 2009

Bush Record on Biodiversity and Endangered Species

Editor’s Note:  With the Bush Administration’s remaining time in office now measured in hours, we asked CPR Member Scholars to remind us of some of the less publicized moments of the Administration’s record on environmental issues.   Following is the first of several entries that we’ll run on CPRBlog before President Bush returns to Texas.  A. […]

A. Dan Tarlock | January 18, 2009

Bush Record on Biodiversity and Endangered Species

Editor’s Note:  With the Bush Administration’s remaining time in office now measured in hours, we asked CPR Member Scholars to remind us of some of the less publicized moments of the Administration’s record on environmental issues.   Following is the first of several entries that we’ll run on CPRBlog before President Bush returns to Texas.  A. […]