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Hydrogen is expected to play a significant role in the nation''s energy transition, but the development of the hydrogen market may be hindered by uncertainty over how pipelines that transport hydrogen will be regulated. No statute expressly provides for federal regulation of the construction or siting of interstate hydrogen pipelines, or their rates or services. However, three existing statutes could be construed to confer such jurisdiction. These include the Natural Gas Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, and the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act.The article concludes that hydrogen is most logically classified as “artificial gas” under the Natural Gas Act, over which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) has jurisdiction only if it is blended with “natural gas” on interstate pipelines. Alternatively, FERC could assert more expansive jurisdiction over hydrogen as “natural gas” in its own right, but this would be susceptible to judicial challenges.Finally, this article offers parameters for an effective regulatory regime that would encourage growth of the hydrogen market while providing rate protection to consumers and discusses regulatory and legislative pathways for implementing it.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself—by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. The inspiration for the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ “live documentary” Beastie Boys Story, directed by Spike Jonze NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone • The Guardian • Paste Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam “ADROCK” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the debut album that became the first hip hop record ever to hit #1, Licensed to Ill—and the album’s messy fallout as the band broke with Def Jam; their move to Los Angeles and rebirth with the genre-defying masterpiece Paul’s Boutique; their evolution as musicians and social activists over the course of the classic albums Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty and the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late Adam “MCA” Yauch; and more. For more than thirty years, this band has had an inescapable and indelible influence on popular culture. With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir. Alongside the band narrative you will find rare photos, original illustrations, a cookbook by chef Roy Choi, a graphic novel, a map of Beastie Boys’ New York, mixtape playlists, pieces by guest contributors, and many more surprises. Praise for Beastie Boys Book “A fascinating, generous book with portraits and detail that float by in bursts of color . . . As with [the band’s] records, the book’s structure is a lyrical three-man weave. . . . Diamond’s voice is lapidary, droll. Horovitz comes on like a borscht belt comedian, but beneath that he is urgent, incredulous, kind of vulnerable. . . . Friendship is the book’s subject as much as music, fame and New York.”—The New York Times Book Review “Wild, moving . . . resembles a Beastie Boys LP in its wild variety of styles.”—Rolling Stone

Lawyers who represent group clients from disenfranchised communities face a number of recurring political and ethical issues that are often as central to their practice as the underlying legal questions. These include whether the group''s leadership is legitimate, whether the group''s decision-making process is or ought to be democratic, and whether, and the extent to which, the attorney should intervene in the group''s decision-making process. These issues are not addressed in any depth in the community lawyering literature. This body of work largely takes as a given the legitimacy of group leadership and decision-making or adheres strictly to Model Rule 1.13, which requires, with limited exception, that lawyers who represent groups follow the dictates of the group''s "duly authorized constituents." In this paper we argue that a proper analysis of how a lawyer should act in representing non-democratic groups must be based on the nature of the group, its goals and its leadership. The paper begins by setting out the problems confronted by community lawyers representing groups. It then examines sociological literature about organizational theory and about the definition and nature of groups and social psychological literature about leadership and followership. We go on to discuss these theories in the context of the existing literature and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Our analysis reveals that the Model Rules do not provide guidance for lawyers in a community practice. We conclude by proposing a set of factors lawyers should consider when evaluating their representation of non-democratic community groups and call for the development of a set of ethical rules that address this important area of practice.

The world pushed to the brink...A shadowy leader revealed...As the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of three souls...It has been two years since the events in a French manor ripped Julius Godom''s mind apart, sending him into a catatonic state. As he recovers under the watchful eye of Rhona Masterson in London, Julius must come to grips with his lost path and reforge a shattered mind. As healer and counselor to Julius, Rhona comes to understand the power of her own faith, and what part she has yet to play. Lyra Dubois sits in the seat of power, but as shadowy forces swirl around the Poisoned Heart, the young master assassin realizes her own shadow is no longer safe.When the mastermind of the Idol search is revealed, the three disparate paths must come together. Spirited across the Atlantic by the R.M.S. Olympic, the three make their way back to America, all in hopes of fighting off the terror which rises from the watery depths.

What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a significant interest in regulating the use of private property but also in defining it, and establishing its contour and texture. In The Public Nature of Private Property, therefore, scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom challenge traditional conceptions of private property while presenting a range of views on both the meaning of private property, and on the ability, some might say the requirement, of the state to regulate it.

Michael Diamond''s book Impasse is a daring expose of the real world order. Through the fictional tale of a man whose wartime actions torment him, Diamond illustrates how a false reality has taken over the world. The book opens to an act of terror in Palestine. A suicide bomber has detonated a bomb, destroying a busload of people. Anne Whalen, a history professor near retirement, sees the news unfold and immediately realizes her tragic involvement. Meanwhile, an ex-soldier who took part in a war crime is also jarred by the news. As his past comes back to haunt him, he is compelled to take responsibility and be tried by a court of law as the guilty party. Impasse is the story of this man, Hershel Selden, and how he tosses convention aside, breaks away from his familial connections, and, despite risk to himself, pursues what is right. The book exposes the shadowy cartel that runs this world, making puppets of us all. Most significantly, it sets forth a roadmap for defeating the global puppet masters.

This paper was first delivered at a conference on Affordable Housing and Pubic Private Partnerships at the University of Colorado Law School. It addresses the creation of community institutions able to acquire and wield power in the affordable housing realm. While this ability has generally been associated with buildings purchased and operated by tenant groups, the paper suggests other affordable housing situations, particularly those developed under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, in which the accretion of power can occur. It proposes a model of tenant involvement in development and operation of affordable rental housing that can, in certain circumstances, create the type of durable institution normally associated with ownership.

This paper argues that waste-to-energy''s stagnation in the U.S. illustrates the failure of state-based renewable energy portfolio standards to efficiently incentivize the growth of renewable energy. The absence of a federal renewable energy standard and resultant patchwork of state-based regimes has left the country with no consistent definition of “renewable energy.” Consequently, developers of certain energy technologies are uncertain as to whether their product will qualify as “renewable,” and thus are unable to confidently invest the millions of dollars needed to deploy these technologies. Using waste-to-energy as a case study, this paper argues that a national renewable portfolio standard, defining “renewable energy” consistently and inclusively, would help to create a maximally efficient renewable energy market.

An artifact hidden for centuries... A power man was not meant to wield... A horror unlike anything ever unleashed... Postgraduate student and Renaissance man Julius Godom uncovers the legend of a mysterious artifact rumored to hold the key to human understanding. He sets off on a journey that will take him around the world to India during the Roaring Twenties, chasing the only thing that will quench his thirst for knowledge. From the monsoon-swollen banks of the Ganges to heights of the Himalayan mountains, the search for the Idol threatens to possess Julius'' mind with fiery desire. The knowledge contained within is unlike anything he has ever experienced, and now he cannot be without it... But a shadowy coterie of assassins has other plans. Julius must navigate steamy markets, lush jungles, and perilous mountains to track down the Idol before it''s used to unleash an ancient horror that will rip apart the world with its own carnal desires.

Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time. Legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and economists, among others, have studied the impacts of home and community on one''s identity and how one''s identity is manifested in one''s home and in one''s community. This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers about the connections between community, home and identity. Several chapters address how the law and lawyers contribute (or detract) from the creation and maintenance of community and, in some cases, the conscious destruction of communities. Others examine the protection of individual and group identities through rules related to property title and use of such things as Home and ''identity property''.

This article starts from the premise that poverty is a growing problem in the United States. Intergenerational poverty, the entrenchment of a class of very poor people, is a major sub set of that problem and is tied very closely to the issue of race. The author claims that missing in the fight by the poor and their allies against stratified poverty is the creation and utilization of power. This paper examines the disparate ways in which commentators have defined power. It suggests that those seeking to obtain power must understand the concept''s varying meanings and direct their activities to meet their own understanding of the concept. Community Economic Development (CED) may be nothing more than a re-affirmation of existing power relationships or it may be the cause and the result of a change in those relationships. This paper attempts to make sense of this apparent paradox.

Since the late 1980s, led by William Julius Wilson''s The Truly Disadvantaged, scholars have been writing about the social problems caused by the concentration in residential communities of high levels of poverty. Even before Wilson''s book, government policy, which previously had resulted in racially and economically segregated communities, had begun to shift towards de-concentration. The consent decree in Hills v Gautreaux, and the HOPE VI and Moving to Opportunity Programs all pointed towards de-concentration of poverty. Commentators have suggested both benign and not-so-benign reasons for the policy shift. There were a variety of quite hopeful goals promoted by advocates of the policy changes. While some of the desired outcomes of these programs have been met, I argue in this paper that the programs, on the whole, have not been successful in achieving their intended purposes. Moreover, I argue that due to the destruction of existing communities the costs of these programs, particularly the HOPE VI program, far outweigh their benefits. I point out some of the benefits derived from existing communities and some of the costs of forced relocations from them. I do not argue here for a return to policies leading to high concentration poor communities and certainly not for policies leading to dysfunctional communities. I argue instead for a policy that promotes voluntary relocation of residents in such communities with all appropriate governmental support; for a policy that results in the production of more decent and affordable units throughout the economy; and mostly for the commitment to improve existing communities so that they are places where lower income residents may live with dignity and pride.

After two years of intense negotiations President John F. Brander has succeeded in bringing together Israel and the Palestinians to sign a peace accord-the mission that has eluded even the most determined statesmen for more than 60 years. Resolving this bitter conflict-at the epicenter of Islamic hostility towards the West-will mark the beginning of the end of the world''s clash of civilizations. As the parties iron out final details in preparation for a ceremony on the White House lawns, David Dekel, a handsome young researcher in geological remote sensing at Israel''s Ben-Gurion University makes a remarkable discovery that throws the entire process into a spin. Fifty meters below the surface of the soon-to-be-surrendered West Bank town of Jenin, Dekel discovers an oil trap large enough to meet Israel''s energy needs for the next 100 years.

Lawyering for poor and subordinated clients has been the subject of significant re-examination over the past decade. Many commentators have provided a critique of traditional lawyering models and some of them have developed new patterns of "community lawyering." Too often, however, these new models incorporate many of the shortcomings of the traditional model. In particular, they often see the law as a significant part of the answer to the problems of poverty and subordination. While they speak in terms of client empowerment, they focus primarily on the relationship between a lawyer and a client (who is typically an individual). Even when they focus on the products of the lawyer-client relationship, the product tends to be the creation or enforcement of legal rights. This paper argues that a relational or rights based analysis of the lawyer''s role is insufficient to address the real problems of poverty. It begins by reiterating a position that is widely held among progressive lawyers; that the struggle against subordination requires community organizing and collective action. It goes on to discuss the definition and nature of community and the role of a lawyer who seeks to represent "community" interests. Communities are not monolithic and incorporate many different, often competing, views. How should a lawyer distinguish between these views and choose clients so as to maintain a coherence in his or her practice? How should a lawyer relate to a group once a client is chosen? And most importantly, what role should a lawyer play in assisting a client to plan and implement strategies? The paper argues that these strategies often need to be political, not merely legal, and that community lawyers or, as the author has dubbed them, activist lawyers, must participate in building an integrated strategic plan and in its implementation.

This study demonstrates the connection between changing working patterns and a general decline in wellbeing associated with relationships - particularly those in families, but also including friendships and participation in the broader community. The cold statistics hide immense human tragedy. If the link between working patterns and family disintegration is accepted, it is incumbent on political leaders to take urgent action to address working time issues - so as to avert emerging social and economic repercussions, and to ensure a stable and sustainable society in the future.

An examination of racial attitudes in popular British culture, 1890-1940.

''Victorian Sensation'' sheds light on the Victorians'' fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage of murders and sex scandals. With a vivid cast of characters, ranging from the serial poisoner William Palmer, to Charles Dickens, Jumbo the Elephant, distinguished politicians and even the Queen herself, this passionate analysis of the period reveals how the reporting methods of our own popular media have their origins in the Victorian press, and shows that sensation was as integral a part of society in the nineteenth century as it is today.

A delve into the crazes, scandals and passions that gripped the popular imagination in Victorian England. Michael Diamond examines what it was that caught the public interest, and how that interest grew and died.