Volume 4, Issue 1 (Fall 2009): Energy and the Environment
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Design Director: Vahak Janbazian

Photo Credits:

Geothermal vent by Vanessa Yuen (Craters of the Moon, Taupo, New Zealand)

Waterfall by Vanessa Yuen (Milford Sound, New Zealand)

Oil rig by Anila Churi (Ghana, Africa)

Editors’ Message
PGI Editorial Staff

Interview with Peter Maass, Author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
Jhelum Bagchi and Karishma Thakkar

Why We Can’t Kill Carbon: The Political Roadblocks of Progressing Carbon Emissions Trading
Russell Karas

Environmental Law and Policy:
Climate Change as a Threat to International Peace and Security

Sonia Gupta

Chinese Oil Investment in Angola and The Quest to Evade the Resource Curse
Ethan Cramer-Flood

French Nuclear Energy and Its Environmental Impact
Maia Dimitrova

Climate Change Impacts on Hawaii
Henry Kwong

Emissions Arbitrage in the Natural Gas Market
Samuel Lissner, Orlee Zorbaron & Kelly Nelson

The Possibility of Large-Scale Geothermal Power Plants
Fathali Ghahremani

Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Possibility or Myth?
Marianne N. Nemecek and Orlee D. Zorbaron

Book Review: Earth the Sequel
Linda Bouzembrak