ONE PERSON’S TRASH, ANOTHER PERSON’S RENEWABLE ENERGY? CREATING A CLEANER, MORE JUST RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD IN PENNSYLVANIA BY REVOKING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE’S ALTERNATIVE ENERGY DESIGNATION

Volume 94, No. 3, Spring 2022

By Elizabeth Wetzler [PDF]

Consider for a moment the life of a piece of trash. It may be a water bottle or a paper towel or a banana peel, but regardless of its identity, it goes somewhere after it has been thrown into a trashcan. The question is, where? Depending on its material composition, it may be recycled or composted, but more often than not, it will be whisked away by a garbage truck and deposited into one of the United States’ 1,269 landfills. It is also possible, however, that it finds its way to a waste incineration facility where it undergoes a combustion process that converts waste into electricity used to power homes and businesses across the country.

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By Fiona Burke, Temple Law Review Volume 96 Staff Editor Liberals have, as exit polls and Bernie Sanders point out, largely lost the working class and, in fact, most of America. There are many reasons for this, all of which have been dissected and analyzed ad nauseum in the past few weeks and likely will be for even years. One such […]

Author: Jasnoor Hundal In early August 2023, the Supreme Court stayed the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision, In re Purdue Pharma L.P., and granted certiorari to hear oral argument in December of 2023. The parties were asked to brief and argue “[w]hether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a […]

Randy Kominsky is a member of Temple Law’s Class of 1979. Mr. Kominsky was a staff editor for Volume 51 and an associate research editor for Volume 52 of Temple Law Review. His case note, Housing Discrimination – The Appropriate Evidentiary Standard for Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, was published in 1978.[1] After graduating, he moved […]