How the United States is Combatting International Deforestation Through Trade

March 22, 2019

For years, illegal deforestation and logging has consistently wiped out natural habitats and indigenous peoples’ communities, put various animals around the world in danger, and decreased the world’s oxygen levels. As noted in a report issued by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and Wildlife, illegal deforestation and...

Inaugural Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture

Jan. 30, 2019

Cost-Nothing Analysis: Environmental Economics in the Age of Trump Professor Lisa Heinzerling, Georgetown Law The annual Distinguished Lecture Series is a cooperative venture between the Getches-Wilkinson Center (GWC) and the Colorado Natural Resources, Energy, & Environmental Law Review to host a distinguished figure in the fields of natural resource, energy,...

Colorado River: January 31 Drought Contingency Plan Deadline Looming-And the Shutdown Isn’t Helping

Jan. 18, 2019

The last two decades marked the longest period of drought in the Colorado River’s recorded history, and water demands in the last decade exceeded available supply. With thirty-five to forty million people in the U.S. currently relying on water from the Colorado River Basin, its waters are over allocated at...

Environmental and Economic Justice in Distributed Solar Energy Investment

Jan. 16, 2019

Low-income individuals can benefit the most from the bill savings from solar energy, yet have the least direct access to distributed solar energy, often at their own economic expense. Distributed solar energy rebates are funded by customers from every income bracket, but are distributed in a regressive manner. In Colorado...

Colorado Law Professors Help Take a Stand for Public Land

Dec. 4, 2018

Two University of Colorado Law School professors submitted amicus briefs in litigations challenging the Trump administration’s recent actions shrinking Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. President Clinton, pursuant to his authority under the Antiquities Act, established the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on September 18, 1996. Under...

The Buzz Around Developing Pollinator Protections

Nov. 29, 2018

Butterflies and bees pollinate over 85 percent of flowering plants and contribute to 35 percent of global food production. Bumble bees play a special role in pollination: they work longer days and in worse weather than other bees because of their unique abilities to fly in cooler temperatures and lower...

“MOOving” Towards Sustainability: Advancing Public Land Management One Animal at a Time

Oct. 23, 2018

The Grand Canyon Trust (“GCT”) modernizes public land management by grazing livestock and conducting scientific research. Public lands are rarely managed to account for their exhaustible and diverse resources. To protect these resources, the GCT conducts research as a federal lands grazing permittee and integrates science into federally mandated land-use...

Banning Plastic: A Local Effort

Oct. 2, 2018

In Colorado, approximately two billion single use plastic bags are used annually – less than 5% are recycled. Of those recycled, most are turned into low-value products that are not recycled again. To combat the proliferation of plastic bags, ten cities in the state have passed plastic bag ordinances (see...

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Fall 2018 Newsletter

Sept. 1, 2018

Featured articles: GWC welcomes new Getches-Green Clinical Director Sean Helle Ruth Wright endows the GWC Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources Food for his Children: A Podcast about U.S. v. Washington Read the full newsletter.

Food for His Children: A Podcast U.S. v. Washington

Aug. 7, 2018

The Getches-Wilkinson Center is proud to announce the launch of a student-produced podcast. The first series, Food for His Children , will tell the story of how a salmon fishing rights case reflects Pacific Northwest Tribes’ struggle—over the course nearly forty years—to reassert their tribal sovereignty by insisting the states...

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