{"id":5523,"date":"2020-11-27T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistajuridica.uprrp.edu\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2020-11-27T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:00:05","slug":"puerto-rican-environmental-rule-of-law-under-promesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/2020\/11\/27\/puerto-rican-environmental-rule-of-law-under-promesa\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rican Environmental Rule of Law Under Promesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">El art\u00edculo examina la aplicaci\u00f3n de la ley federal PROMESA en el derecho ambiental federal y puertorrique\u00f1o que impera sobre el manejo, uso y conservaci\u00f3n de los recursos naturales en la isla. El mismo examina los alcances y l\u00edmites de la ley PROMESA y aquellos de la Junta de Control Fiscal (Junta) a la luz del derecho ambiental. Tambi\u00e9n examina el l\u00edmite y alcance del gobierno local cuando entra en conflicto la ley local, el mandato constitucional de conservaci\u00f3n ambiental y las exigencias de la Junta. Tomando en consideraci\u00f3n requisitos ambientales de la ley PROMESA y la doctrina de <em>cooperative federalism<\/em>, proponemos una lista de leyes, pol\u00edticas e iniciativas ambientales que deben quedar exentas de las medidas de austeridad y otras iniciativas de ajuste financiero de la Junta. Esperamos que este trabajo sea de utilidad moldeando la pol\u00edtica p\u00fablica ambiental de la isla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article examines the application of PROMESA over Puerto Rican and federal environmental laws governing the management, use, and conservation of the island&#8217;s natural resources. It examines the reach and limits of PROMESA and the Financial Oversight and Management Board vis-a-vis environmental law. It also examines the reach and limits of Puerto Rico\u2019s government when there is a conflict among local environmental law, the Puerto Rican constitutional environmental mandate, and the powers and requests of the Board. In light of environmental mandates under PROMESA and the doctrine of <em>cooperative federalism<\/em>, we propose a list of laws, policies, and other environmental initiatives that should be exempted from the Board&#8217;s austerity measures and other related powers. We hope that our work will help shape local environmental policy moving forward.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cita<\/strong>:  Jhoset A. Burgos, <em>Puerto Rican Environmental Rule of Law Under Promesa<\/em>, 89 Rev. Jur. UPR 851 (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revistajuridica.uprrp.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9-PUERTO-RICAN-ENVIRONMENTAL-RULE.pdf\">Descarga el art\u00edculo<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/revistajuridica.uprrp.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9-PUERTO-RICAN-ENVIRONMENTAL-RULE.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jhoset A. Burgos, Puerto Rican Environmental Rule of Law Under Promesa, 89 Rev. Jur. UPR 851 (2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rev-89","7":"category-rev-89-num-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}