In this paper, we ask how the written composition of public policies structure an environmental governance system. We answer this question using semi-automated text analyses of 22 state-level policies governing oil and gas development in California…
Gabon encompasses pristine rainforest and large, onshore reserves of crude oil. Since the 1990s, roughly half of the country's total production has come from the gigantic Rabi-Kounga onshore field, which supplies Rabi Light Crude to Shell Upstream's…