We deeply appreciate the work of the Pacific Legal Foundation. The precedents for which it is responsible are not restricted to the adjudicated case in question, but, rather apply to the improved environment in which all natural resource industries operate.
So on this day, we celebrate the PLF heroes whose praises are not enough sung. Scroll down for the latest PLF report.
Dave Harbour
Publisher, Northern Gas Pipelines
On June 15, PLF D.C. Center Executive Director Todd Gaziano joined Paul J. Larkin Jr. and host Daren Bakst to discuss the Hawkes decision and the concurring opinions of the justices, including whether they might provide insight into the fate of the controversial “waters of the United States” rule that attempts to regulate almost all waters and much land in America. The panelists also discussed some of the fundamental flaws with the CWA, from vagueness to troubling process problems. Finally, the panel discussed what actions Congress should take to address these flaws in the CWA.
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PLF Principal Attorney Reed Hopperprovided some insight on the larger implications of PLF’s recent Supreme Court victories in a Liberty Blog post this week. When PLF wins a big case, like the recent unanimous decisions at the U.S. Supreme Court in Hawkes and Kent Recycling, which held that landowners have the right to challenge Army Corps’ and EPA’s Jurisdictional Determinations in court, it’s natural to ask what effect the decision will have in the “real world.” When we won the 2006 Rapanos case, wherein the High Court limited the scope of the Clean Water Act, the Corps and EPA immediately backed off hundreds of enforcement actions and completely revised their procedures for determining Jurisdictional Determinations. Hawkes and Kent Recycling will also have “real world” impacts for landowners. |
On June 15, a divided panel of the Eighth Circuit held that a Minnesota law regulating greenhouse gas emissions is unconstitutional because it regulates activity occurring wholly beyond the state’s borders. This is a welcome result. PLF, joined by NFIB, filed an amicus brief in the case, supporting the challenge on this basis. The opinion gets to the heart of the problem of extraterritorial regulations. If all states can regulate beyond their borders, they could impose overlapping regulatory burdens on out-of-state individuals to whom they are in no way accountable. PLF Attorney Jonathan Wood dives into the implications of this decision in his latest Liberty Blog post.
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Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School.
Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations.
Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska.
Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power.
He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress.
Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.
We deeply appreciate the work of the Pacific Legal Foundation. The precedents for which it is responsible are not restricted to the adjudicated case in question, but, rather apply to the improved environment in which all natural resource industries operate.
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