Environmental Law and Sustainability

Arizona Revised Statutes
The Arizona Revised Statutes contain the laws passed by the Legislature. Title 27 contains statutes governing the sale and production of oil and gas. Title 30 creates the Arizona Power Authority and contains statutes governing electric energy reliability and interstate cooperation in atomic energy matters. Title 40 creates the Corporation Commission and governs public utilities.

Arizona Administrative Code
The Arizona Administrative Code contains regulations created by state agencies. Title 12 contains regulations of the Arizona Power Authority and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Title 14 contains the Corporation Commission's regulations including those regulating public utilities.  

Arizona Corporations Commission - Utilities Division
The Commission regulates investor-owned or privately-owned utilities that provide gas, water, wastewater, electricity, or telephone services. The Utilities Division recommends regulatory policy and rates to the Commissioners.

Arizona Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
This Commission website provides rules and regulations for energy-resource exploration as well as permits, forms, and information on meetings and existing oil wells.

Arizona Power Authority
The Authority was created to acquire and market Arizona’s share of the power created by the Hoover Dam and Power Plant. It works with both publicly-owned and privately-owned utilities in making Hoover Power Plant hydro power available to all major load centers throughout Arizona at low cost. 

Arizona Residential Utility Consumer Office
The Residential Utility Consumer Office (RUCO) represents the interests of residential utility ratepayers in rate-related proceedings involving public service corporations before the Arizona Corporation Commission. As a matter of policy, RUCO always intervenes and participates in rate cases involving Arizona's largest utilities. Intervention in the cases of smaller companies is decided on a case-by-case basis.

U.S. Energy Information Administration: Arizona
This site provides statistical tracking of Arizona's energy profile, broken down by industry, along with information such as U.S. rankings on energy spending and carbon dioxide emissions. The main page includes nationwide data.

You can search for online and print treatises in the ASU Library catalog by using subject headings such as Energy & Utilities Law and Energy Policies. You can limit your results to e-books by clicking “Full Text Online” on the right. Print books available in other ASU libraries may be requested and delivered to you at the law library.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Renewable Energy (Joel B. Eisen, 2021)
This compact volume introduces the reader to laws and policies affecting renewable energy, including policies to promote renewable energy development and use, utility regulation, and finance of renewable energy projects.

Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures (Majia Nadesan, Martin J. Pasqualetti & Jennifer Keahy, eds., 2023, available on campus or remotely with ASURITE)
This book, edited by ASU-affiliated academics, explores the relationships between energy and democracy, reviews how changing energy demand and governance threaten democracies and democratic institutions, identifies what participative energy transformations look like when paired with energy security, and reviews what happens to social, economic and political infrastructures in the process of achieving sustainable and democratic transitions.

Energy Justice: U.S. and International Perspectives (Raya Salter, Carmen Gonzalez, & Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner, eds., 2018)
This volume examines a range of energy justice regulatory challenges from the perspective of international law, US law, and foreign domestic law. The book illuminates the theory of energy justice while emphasizing practical solutions that hasten the transition from fossil fuels and address the inequities that plague energy systems.

Energy Law (Alexandra B. Klass & Hannah J. Wiseman, 2020, available on campus or with an ASU West Academic account)
The study aid provides a broad yet detailed understanding of the major components of energy systems, energy infrastructure, and energy markets and the laws that guide their development. It covers all major energy policy sectors including oil and gas extraction, electricity regulation, renewable energy development, and regulation of vehicles and transportation fuels.

Energy Law: An Introduction (Raphael Heffrom, 2021)
The aim of this short text is to introduce readers to energy law. It is written for energy law students and students of other disciplines such as geographers, social scientists and engineers. The text aims to outline the principles and central logic behind energy law, while also highlighting issues of energy justice.

Energy Law in a Nutshell (Joseph P. Tomain, 2022)
This study aid addresses the component parts of the energy fuel cycle, as well as the market and government policies that oversee it. It describes in detail the country’s traditional energy policy and also discusses the current challenges that confront it. Chapters cover the individual natural resources used to produce energy, and the book concludes with the development of a clean energy policy for the future. Also available on West Academic (available on campus or remotely with ASURITE or a West Academic account).

Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell (John S. Lowe, 2024, available on campus or with ASURITE or a West Academic account)
This work summarizes the legal regimes surrounding transfers of oil and gas production rights along with taxation and contractual issues. An older edition is also available in the Ross-Blakley Law Library. 

The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract (Raphael J. Heffrom and Louis de Fontenelle, 2024)
This open-access book focuses on the energy sector and argues that energy justice must be formalized in a new ‘social contract’ with all stakeholders in society. It argues for improving legal systems at local, national, and international levels while ensuring that justice is a core issue within energy law, the legal system, and society more broadly.

Renewable Energy: Law, Policy and Practice (Troy A. Rule, 2018)
This book, written by an ASU Law Professor, discusses the legal regimes governing and promoting energy strategies such as wind, geothermal, and solar, and covers related legal issues such as property law and tax incentives.

Renewable Energy Law (Olivia Woolley, 2023)
The book introduces readers to the main legal frameworks shaping the rise of renewables at international, regional and national levels, including those which set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing renewable energy consumption.

Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law: Examining Legal Pathways for Sustainability in Times of Disruption (International Bar Association, 2022)
This book offers an analytical approach to developing legal responses that can help assure that needs of present and future generations can be met through energy systems, infrastructure development, and natural resources management in times of more frequent and intense disruption.

Routledge Handbook of Energy Communities and Smart Cities (Maciej M. Sokolowski, Anna Visvizi, 2023, available on campus or remotely with ASURITE)
This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

Lexis+ Energy & Utilities Law (Lexis+ password required)
This collection features cases, statutes, regulations, secondary materials, sample forms, and news items related to energy and utilities law. 

Lexis+ Practical Guidance - Energy & Utilities (Lexis+ password required)
This Practical Guidance topic provides detailed practice notes, along with standard forms and clauses and checklists to guide transactional lawyers and litigators.

Westlaw - Energy & Environment (Westlaw password required)
This databases contains a collection of cases, statutes, rules, court documents, orders, news, and practitioner insights about energy and environmental law.

Westlaw Practical Law - Oil & Gas (Westlaw password required)
This Practical Law topic contains news, practice notes, checklists, and more for practitioners in the field of oil and gas law. It includes explanations of important federal legislation and sample clauses for agreements related to oil and gas production.