Managing the Risks of Shale Gas Development Using Innovative Legal and Regulatory Approaches

Booming production of oil and gas from shale, enabled by hydraulic fracturing technology, has led to tension between hoped-for economic benefits and feared environmental and other costs, with great associated controversy. Study of how policy can best react to these challenges and how it can balance risk and reward has focused on prescriptive regulatory responses and, to a somewhat lesser extent, voluntary industry best practices. While there is undoubtedly room for improved regulation, innovative tools are relatively understudied. The liability system predates environmental regulation yet still plays an important — and in some senses predominant — role. Changes to that system, including burden-shifting rules and increased bond requirements, might improve outcomes. Similarly, new regulation can and should incorporate modern understanding of the benefits of market-based approaches. Information disclosure requirements can benefit the liability system and have independent benefits of their own. Policymakers faced with a need for policy change in reaction to shale development should carefully consider alternatives to regulation and, when regulation is deemed necessary, consider which tool is best suited

JLFT 005 Fredrick Richardson 10-16-1996

Acc #: 328; JLFT 005 In this recording, Fredrick Richardson is interviewed by John Beebee and Sheila Flanagan to discuss John LeFlore and the Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Richardson describes working with John LeFlore at the post office, and Mr. LeFlore’s activism both inside and outside of that space. He also discusses some of the political differences and points of agreement between himself and Mr. LeFlore, including his own personal choice not to work with the Non-Partisan Voters League, and Mr. LeFlore’s decision not to work with the NOW movement. He also describes the voting boycott that the NOW movement called for, which led to Joe Langan losing the Mobile mayoral election of 1969

Moira: A Star Wars Story

Moira: A Star Wars Story is a creative screenwriting project set in the Star Wars universe, with four characters introduced, and killed off, in the comic Star Wars: Republic #53, Blast Radius. My final Capstone project includes a two-page treatment for the TV show, Moira: a Star Wars Story, the script of the first act, and the first scene of the second act, totaling eleven pages, from the Pilot episode which resides in the Archive of Our Own. The treatment and a link to the Archive of Our Own site are included here. Also included is fair use documentation for the Treatment, and an eleven-page verbal essay companion of the creative works

Lengthened Predelivery Stay and Antepartum Complications in Women with Depressive Symptoms During Pregnancy

Background: It is crucial to understand the timing and mechanisms behind depression's effect on peripartum stay because attempts to intervene will vary based on the time period involved. We designed this study to compare predelivery and postdelivery length of stay in women with and without elevated depressive symptoms during pregnancy. Methods: This study involved secondary data analysis of a larger study exploring antepartum depression. Each subject completed the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) during pregnancy at a mean of 25.8 weeks' gestation. We used time-stamped data to compare total peripartum, predelivery, and postdelivery lengths of stay in women with and without elevated depressive symptoms during pregnancy. In addition, we used a Cox proportional hazards regression model to evaluate potential mechanisms for depression's effect on length of stay. Results: The study sample included 802 pregnant women. Overall, 18% of study subjects scored >=16 on the CES-D. Bivariate analyses demonstrated a significant association between elevated depressive symptoms and longer predelivery stays (time from admission to delivery). Interaction analyses demonstrated a significant interaction effect between depressive symptoms and parity, such that depressive symptoms were significantly associated with predelivery length of stay in multiparas but not so in primiparous subjects. In a multivariate model of multiparous subjects, depression's effect on length of stay was partially influenced by sociodemographic confounders but remained significant until antepartum complications were added to the model. Conclusions: Depressive symptoms during pregnancy are significantly associated with a subsequent increase in predelivery length of stay, and this association is mediated in part by antepartum complications, even after controlling for sociodemographic factors. These longer hospital stays can present significant burdens to the patient, her family, and the healthcare system. Future studies should evaluate whether interventions for depression during pregnancy can impact this relationship among depressive symptoms during pregnancy, antepartum complications, and extensive predelivery hospitalizations.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90486/1/jwh-2E2010-2E2380.pd