This Just In: When Fracking Comes to Town

When Fracking Comes to Town: Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the US Shale Boom edited by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili traces the response of local communities to the shale gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) boom of the last few decades.   Communities have adapted their local rules and regulations to meet the novel challenges fracking poses to the environment. The book has essays from multidisciplinary perspectives from planners, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists.

One of the essays by a legal scholar is from C|M|LAW’s own Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson and is titled Local Jurisdictions and Variations in State Law in the Marcellus Shale Region.  The book is available in the law library’s new arrivals section for checkout and is currently displayed in the faculty publications display case.  Ask a library staff member for assistance if you wish to check the book out.