A market approach to regulating the energy revolution: Assurance bonds, insurance, and the certain and uncertain risks of hydraulic fracturing

Iowa Law Review

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1523-1593

  Dana, David A ^a   Wiseman, Hannah J ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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