Caselist for Utah Scrimmage

[tjewell@unm.edu]

Sorry for the delay.  Here it is!  I could use some feedback for future 
reference:  Do people want JV and Novice cases posted, for example?

Tom Jewell

CASELIST FOR UTAH SCRIMMAGE

ARIZONA STATE KR (Kearl & Ratmansky)--Novice
Plan:	return to 2001 the phaseout of methyl bromide under Clean Air Act
Adv1:	Human health--toxicity & skin cancer
Adv2:	Decrease ozone, save sea life, save all life on planet

ARIZONA STATE HM (Huffman & Mason)--Novice
Plan:	same as KR
Obs1:	Inherency--Clinton changed phaseout from 2001 to 2010 and allowed loopholes that
	make phasout meaningless.  U.S. consumes 40% of world's methyl bromide, a 	category 1 toxin.  MB depletes ozone.  We are on the brink of ozone depletion now.
Obs2:	Solvency--save the ozone layer.  Recovery speeded by pesticide control.  Methyl 	iodide is a safe and acceptable substitute.  Phase out would be most effective way to
	save the ozone layer and cannot stop depletion with MB ban.
Adv1:	Human health--MB is deadly, attacks the body.
Adv2:	Ozone layer--MB is the greatest ozone threat in the next 5 years.  1% ozone reduction
	= 3% UV increase.  10% UV increase = 8.5% increase in mortality from skin cancer.
	Ozone destruction kills phytoplankton which would destroy all life on earth.

ARIZONA STATE AS (Aralica & Sweet)--Junior Varsity (same as HM)

ARIZONA STATE DC (Deaton & Chaney)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Energy tax to stabilize CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by year 2000.  Further 	reductions, if necessary, will be in accordance with eports from the CO, EPA, and
	IRS.  Tax will be phased in and revenues recycled.  Tax will replace corporate taxes 
	and will mirrow Dover proposal.
Case:	Other countries will follow the U.S. lead in decreasing CO2 emissions.  CO2 destroys
	agriculture.  Warming causes disease, water shortages, and hurricanes.

ARIZONA STATE GL (Gibbs & Luck)--Senior
Plan:	Congress will pass FFCA waiver of sovereign immunity.  Private right of action.
	Supreme court will ratify the exception to sovereign immunity.  Any conflicting
	executive orders will be amended.  Logistical support guaranteed.
Case:	Government pollutes without penalty because of sovereign immunity which = risk of
	immediate catastrophe.  Private suits will deter government pollution.

ARIZONA STATE BY (Beltran & Young)--Senior (same as GL)

CASPER COLLEGE CS (Coats & Stevens)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Encourage corporations to adopt "private codes" of reductions.  EPA standards
	shifted from status of "command" to "guideline"--EPA standards incorporated into
	corporate codes (but there is no corporation fiat in plan).
Case:	We're in a post-deregulation world.  EPA command and control regulation fails.
	Regulations are about to tighten and corporations will export or break laws rather
	than comply with them.


CASPER COLLEGE CH (Cram & Hansen)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Stop global warming through fuel cell technology.
Case:	Global warming.  Disease.
COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH AA (Alcott & Allred)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Allow native americans to tax mining industries.
Obs1:	Native Americans have no ability to tax
Obs2:	Allowing a tax increases automony and control over the environment.
Adv1:	Mining does bad things.
Adv2:	Sovereignty means survival for native americans and a cooler environment

COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH AB (Anderson & Bartlett)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	clean up mining pollutans on native american lands and give them sovereignty by
	allowing them to regulate
Case:	Water Pollution.  Native control.  Survival of all dependent on native american
	liberation; solves racism and environmental problems.

COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH KM (Kalley & Muranaka)--Senior
Plan:	amend the Surface Mining Claims and Reclamation Act to allow native americans
	to have jurisdiction over mining.
Obs1:	Inherency.  Mining ban and native americans have no juridiction.
Obs2:	Solvency.  Amending SMCRA solves.  Native americans can do environmental 	regulation.
Adv1:	Aff solves mining harms and give native americans sovereignty

COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH MT (Mann & Thompson)--Novice
Plan:	Congress reintroduces and passes the Richardson Municipal Waste Bill with
	appropriate modifications.  Enact new regulations requiring the reduction of
	the production and emission of environmental pollutants.
	1.  require local governments to monitor wast stream--state & federal government
	     assess need for new incinerators.
	2.  require moratorium on new incinerators.
	3.  comply with various rations
	4.  require incinerator operators to prove that no alternative mechanisms exist
	5.  amend MWB to include sulfur ash remaining in concrete
Case:	Promote recycling by reducing incinerators.
Obs1:	Inherency.  We now encourage incineration instead of recycling.
Obs2:	Policy makers should reject incineration.  Effects are dioxins, lead, cadminium and
	ash.  Incinerators are the primary source of dioxin, which is a very bad chemical.
	Municipal waste destroys recycling programs, which are superior to incineration.
Obs3:	Solvency.  Richardson bill would help.

COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH DF (Mevore & Forgie)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Stop environmental racism.
Case:	Minorities suffer more illness and death because they live with more toxic waste.
	Soving for environmental racial discrimination is the most important environmental 	issue.


COLORADO JW (Jennison & Wilson)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Mandate move to ethanol for automobile industry.  Agricultural subsidies shifted to 
	biomass.
Obs1:	Current energy use exceeds capacity which harms the environment, increases
	dependence on foreign oil.  Congress lacks the will to solve.
Obs 2:	Solvency.  Biomass can substitute for environmentally better fuel.  Plan controls
	costs through supply and demand market basics.
Adv1:	R&D.  Government shift in focus will lead to industry shift and take focus off of
	defense technology which feeds proliferation and risks war.
Adv2:	Oil dependency crisis averted.  U.S. economic crisis leads to intervention and war in
	the Middle East which leads to genocide, counterintervention, and nuclear war.
Adv3:	Agriculture.  Biomass will stabilize volatile agricultural markets.

COLORADO CM (Clark & McMullen)--Junior Varsity (same as JW but no ag adv?)

EASTERN NEW MEXICO EW (Elrod & Wilkerson)--Junior Varsity (same as FF)

EASTERN NEW MEXICO FF (Foy & Fuqua)--Senior
Plan:	USFG will enforce the 1979 Environment Modification Convention as domestic law.
	U.S. will increase regulations on ionosphoic heaters by outlawing testing above the 
	frequencies reached in 1994 by the High Frequency Active Auroral Research 
	Program (HAARP).  Indifinite moratorium on the use of ionosphoic heaters.  All
	corporations operating ionospheric heaters will be required to provide secondary
	environmental impact statements with consideration to earths upper and lower
	atmospheric contents potential for alterations or disruptions in global communication,
	weather changes and magnetosphic disturbances.
Case:	Military research is developing HAARP in Alaska.  HAARP disrupts and destroys
	ionosphere and causes the universe to explode by knocking the earth off its axis.
Obs 1:	Inherency.  Environmental standards do not consider HAARP.
Obs2:	Harms.  HAARP will be in operation by 1997.  HAARP pollutes NO, sulpher,
	deisel.  HAARP violates 1977 Convention.
Obs3:	Solvency.  Moratorium solves.  Environment impact statements work.
Sce1:	Ionosophoic destruction (kills all life on earth).
Sce2:	Magneticsphere destabilizes.  Earth crashes into sun.  Sun explodes.
Sce3:	Energy burst destroys atmosphere which creates vacuum.
Sce4:	Ionosphere depletion causes polar shift which kills all life on earth.
Trick:	All this bad stuff will happen by 97.  Can your brinks and impacts beat that?

EASTERN NEW MEXICO BH (Barreta & Hammond)--Senior (same as FF, except they add a scenario on human rights)


FULLERTON KB (Kurpies & Basora)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	FAA will oversee the production of aviation engines to ensure enforcement of status
	quo emissions regulations in accordance with the Clean Air Act.  The FAA will
	specifically establish 14 CFRs to test the engines.
Case:	Jet emission tests are not currently enforced because the FAA is being compromised
	by hiring out work to manufacturers.  Emissions cause air pollution which is 	hazardous to our health.  The tests are not enforces so there is a decrease in 	confidence of the safety of airplanes.  The FAA currently does not know enough about
	new technology for emissions and needs the help of CFR or safety is threatened.
	Advantages are better health and increased competency in enforcing safety tests.

FULLERTON MK (Kulda & Miller)--Junior Varsity (same as KB)
FULLERTON OS (Otte & Saylor)--Novice (same as KB)
FULLERTON BeC (Bell & Choe)--Novice (same as KB)

NEVADA-LAS VEGAS KR (Kimbrough & Robertson)--Senior
Plan:	Ban production of solar photovoltaic cells.  Manufacturing is doubling now.
	PV cells are manufactured with arsenic, selinium and cadnium.  Aff
	gives incentives to industry to use solar thermal via heliostats.
Obs1:	PV cells are increasing
Adv1:	Arsenic.
Adv2:	Selinium
Adv3:	Cadnium.
Solv:	Shift to solar thermal failed because of PV cells.  Heliostats are cost effective
	and easy to maintain.  Solar thermal is cheap and effective.
Trick:	case is small enough to get aff advantages but not big enough to get disads

NEVADA-LAS VEGAS LM (Laxague & McGill)--Junior Varsity (same as KR)
NEVADA-LAS VEGAS NP (Nystrom & Purtle)--Junior Varsity (same as KR)

NEW MEXICO LR (Lowe & Rogers)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	USFG funds a shift from oil, gas, and coal energy plants to decentralized hot dry
	rock technology.
Adv1:	Warming
Adv2:	Acid Rain
Tricks: Decentralized HDR reduces consequences of oil shocks and economic problems.

NORTHWEST COLLEGE CS (Cobler & Strickler)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Phase in of a carbon tax of $150 per ton.
Case:	Each team runs some combination of greenhouse,  disease,  species,  soil,  icecaps.

NORTHWEST COLLEGE GL (Gregor & Leuty)--Junior Varsity (same as CS)
NORTHWEST COLLEGE AY (Acker & Youngquist)--Novice (same as CS)


PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SW (Serassio & Whitehead)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Alternatives to animal testing are to be used, such as in vitro and computer models.
	Amend the Animal Welfare Act to use animal testing only on a vital needs basis.
	Regulations and requirements applied to factory farms.
Ob1:	Lots of animals arebeing tested now which causes false security.
Ob2:	Status quo regulations are inadequate, in vitro is not used now
Sce1:	Animal testing is pollution and creates environmental harm through the creation
	of toxic chemicals.  = end of life on earth.
Sce2:	Cross-species testing = new viruses, end of humanity, airborne AIDS, and in vitro
	testing would solve.
Sce3:	Animal rights a moral imperative.
Sce4:	Factory farms = massive manue and environmental pollution.

PACIFIC UNIVERSITY BN (Breathwaite & Novak)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	A $2 sin tax on cigarettes.
Case:	Plan solves for cigarette deaths, decreases the number of people who smoke,
	and discourages teens from starting.

RICKS COLLEGE AT (Anderson & Thomas)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Indoor filters installed in building, easy access to information and guides for 
	homeowners.
Case:	Radon.  Carbon dioxide.  Lead.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BR (Brevan & Revelins)--Senior
Plan:	US EPA will require all industries that currently produce organic waste to keep
	separate those materials and dispose of them by means of composting rather than
	landfills.  Current enforcement including financial penalties similar to those for
	illegal waste dumping.  Plan will follow recommendations of Charles Cannon and
	the Composting Council regarding the operational definition of organic waste,
	ie, combustible materials, and other specifics regarding the available methods of
	composting.  Plan intent is not to prohibit landfills, but to simply preclude organic
	waste disposals in those landfills.  Funding & enforcement by normal means.  Intent
	to solve greenhouse emissions.  Intent.
Obs1:	Methane = warming and warming is bad = climate swings, disrupted agriculture
	causing famines, political conflicts (refugees, wars)
Obs2:	Solvency.  Composting organic wase instead of putting it a landfill decreases
	methane emission drastically.  Pilot projects prove composing can work across the
	nation.  Last card says we must act now to at least slow warming down.
UV:	anti-warming sources are basically paid off by oil & coal industry to silence the
	warming debate through disinformation

 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MH (Markowski & Harrison)--Senior (same as BR)


SOUTHERN UTAH BS (Basom & Stapley)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	All environmental racism will be recognized to be an illegal form of the dumping	citing process and will be punishable as an environmental crime.  Fines.  	Environmental audits.  Forfeiture of industrial assets.  Mandatory imprisonment
	from 1-10 years for all proven responsible individuals.  Penalties apply equally in
	all the states, for all individuals.  Normal means.
Obs1:	Companies target minority communities for dumping, et.
Obs2:	Environmental damage = violent crime and kills 10K per year.
Obs3:	Status quo doesn't take the problems seriously.
Solv:	Consistent enforcement solves, jail time for individuals will deter, punishment is
	effective and desirable, forfeiture of assets and audits = compliance.
Adv1:	Environmental disaster snowballs, compared to nuke war.
Adv2:	Environmental legislation is key to stimulating environmental movement.
	The movement = ethic which solves all.
Adv3:	Environmental racism = genocide, kills liberty and rights
Adv4:	Rights outweigh everything.
Trick:	Aff turns topicality with a discourse critique--neg commits racial/class oppression
	by not letting this case be heard for jurisdictional reasons.

SOUTHERN UTAH ST (Smith & Thomas)--Novice
Plan:	Fines that preclude corporations from treating violation penalties as a cost of doing
	business.  Environmental audits.  Forfeitures of industrial assets.  Mandatory
	prison terms from 1-10 years.  Normal means.
Case:	Corporations rape the environment but penalties don't make them recognize that
	they hurt people.  Corporate crimes are detrimental to society--10K die per year.
	Deterrence works--jail time works
Adv1:	Environment.  Failure to solve environmental problems = ecodisaster like a
	nuclear holocaust.
Adv2:	Ethic.  New legislation is key to environmental movements.  We have a right to
	a clean environment.

US AIR FORCE ACADEMY SS (Savoie & Sullivan)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Reduce nuclear weapons from 7500 to 100s.  
Case:	Reduced maintenance is causing pollution.  Industry must dismantle.
	Prolif advantage with an East Asian war scenario.

US AIR FORCE ACADEMY BM (Baldwin & McMullena)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Phase in a utility tax to decrease emissions.
Adv1:	Low-level air pollution.  64,000 premature deaths.
Adv2:	Warming.  Ground temperature proves.  Sea level rise scenario.

US AIR FORCE ACADEMY DD (Dinote & Dunham)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	"Feebates"--charge fees for fossil fuel pollution.  Give rebates on corporate taxes 
	when companies switch to renewables.
Obs1:	Fossil fuels cause warming.
Obs2:	Feebates encourage a switch to renewables.
Adv1:	Acid rain.
Adv2:	Particulates.
Adv3:	Warming.  Sea level rise scenario = hurricanes & refugee wars.
UTAH DU (DeLaHunt & Upton)--Senior
Plan:	USFG will increase regulations to require the prompt enactment of the status quo
	plan to build incinerators for eliminating chemical weapons stockpiles at the 8
	proposed sites.  Regs will require enhanced baseline model with carbon scrubbing
	beds.
Obs1:	Inherency.  Status quo incineration and disposal of chemical weapons is happening
	too slowly.  There are several logistical barriers to timely implementation.
Obs2:	Harms.  3 scenarios; leaks from stacks, leaks and accidents at storage facilities,
	MSS rockes auto ignite
Obs3:	Solvency.  
Tricks: Time frame is key.

WYOMING PS (Patcher & Spauldings)--Junior Varsity
Plan:	Stop importation, exportation, production and use of methyl bromide immediately
	instead of the moratorium date of 2001 established by the status quo.
Adv1:	Health.  MB = birth defects, disability, death
Adv2:	Ozone depletion.  = plankton death = kills biosphere

WYOMING BC (Biehl & Christensen)--Senior
Plan:	Ban energy subsidies.
Case:	Oil wars from north/south tensions.  Warming with species, disease, sea level rise.
NEGATIVE POSITIONS

The information provided is sketchy as judges get used to using disclosure forms, so rather than putting this information in the context of specific cases, I have simply listed the negative positions that were reported for each school at the tournament.

ARIZONA STATE
T-"Increase"
T-"Regulation" is not guideline.
T-"Regulation" is not legislation.
T-"Production" requires direct manufacturing
T-"Pollutant" is modified by "industry" and there are 27 industrial pollutants.  If
	you're not one of the 27, you're not topical.
DA-Coattails:  Swing vote gives Dems control of Congress = bond market failure = recession
	which Mead in 92 says = nuclear war
DA-Regulation:  hurts U.S. industrial competition, U.S. is leader now but loss of industrial
	competetiveness kills U.S. leadership & hegemony.  U.S. leadership stops nuke war.
DA-Regulation:  congressional directives on the EPA undermine its effectiveness.  EPA is
	reforming itself now and plan hurts that.
DA-SO2:  decreasing SO2 emissions speeds warming
CP-Delay.  Do aff day after the election.  Avoids coattails disad.

CASPER
T-"Regulation"
DA-SO2: reduction causes warming
DA-Spending: pollution spending trades off with spending on other eco concerns
DA-Legislation:  causes death (scenario not clear)

COLORADO
T-"Domestic" is belonging to a house or home
PMA-Social Ecology:  heirarchial mindset is entrenched by aff  so no solvency
PMA-Population:  no solvency unless worlwide
K-Statism.  Used as counterplan, disad, K, and justification.  The federal government
	exists making sure that solvency will never be achieved.  The CP part devolves the
	USFG into communities with public health programs.  A centralized government will 	solve nothing.

EASTERN NEW MEXICO
T-"Pollutants" is plural
T-"Regulation" is not legislation.
DA-Investor confidence:  spending = debt = decreased confidence = liquidation = depression
	and war.
K-Resolutional integrity.  Using EPA as actor = rhetorical confusion because EPA incorrectly
	equates pollution with emissions.  This confusion means the judge can't know if the
	affirmative is within its jurisdiction and resolutional ambiguity should be rejected.
CP-International Standards Organization:  a planning instead of regulation model.
CP versus carbon tax-Hemp.
CP-Emissions trading.
CP-Pollution taxes
EASTERN UTAH
T-"Regulation" is not a ban.
T-"Pollution" is not oil and gas
DA-Interest rates.
DA-Warming good:  agriculture
DA-Federalism:  with international impacts
DA-Priorities:  EPA will have to forego solving more important problems
DA-Elections:  Republicans get credit for environment, Dole wins = BMD = China nukes us
CP-Anarchy:  best way to deal with ecological problems
CP-Federalism:  avoids federalism DA and states are better anyway
CP-World Government:  w/o world government its too late to solve
CP-Hemp legalization:  reverse greenhouse, environment, world hunger (versus methyl 	bromide)

FULLERTON
T-"Regulation" is not a ban, is not legally precise.
T-"Regulation" is not legislation.
DA-Militia/Wise Use Movements:  militia is ready to go to war against increased regulations
DA-Russia:  alternative energy causes oil crisis
DA-Federalism.
K-Capitalism/Dialectical Materialism:  = worst threat imaginable, must reject capitalistic
	epistemic framework
CP-Voluntary compliance.
CP-States.

NEVADA-LAS VEGAS
T-"Regulation" is not executive order
T-"Regulation" is not legislation, must be executive
T-"Pollution" is pluralistic (?)
DA-Federal Employees:  The "net" (?)
DA-Populism:  tyranny and loss of rights
DA-Budget cuts:  will impair development of key defense technology
DA-Dole victory:  Clinton won't be able to depose Saddam
DA-Terrorism:  terrorists won't like us removing our focus which destroys the einvironment
DA-Federalism:  impact is populism decreases tyranny

NEW MEXICO
K-Deep ecology.


NORTHWEST
T-"Require"
T-"Regulation"
DA-Regulations.
DA-Patriarchy:  "require" is male dominance and "Big Brother"
DA-North/South:  U.S. needs to include the South in environmental decisions
DA-Movements:  regulation squelches true environmental movements
DA-CO2 good.
K-Environmental Critical Focus:  must include the public in making environmental
	regulations or they will fail, causes an increased reliance on technology
CP-Family Planning:  decreased population solves all environmental harms on a world-wide 	basis
Hasty Gen:  Aff limits resolution at an insignificant level.

PACIFIC
T-"Regulation" by effects
DA-Export Death
DA-Inflation
DA-Clinton
DA-SO2 screw
DA-CO2 good
DA-Export Death
DA-Federalism
CP-EPA Reprioritization:  EPA asseses "risks" to determine regulations

RICKS
DA-North/South:  apparant conflict over the gap = prolif

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
T-"Pollution": subs = whole of industrial pollution
T-"Require" means to force.
T-"Industry" is a distinct branch of trade
DA-GOP Supermajority:  pass BMD = mad Russians
DA-Federalism:  states must solve or we get a war
K-Heidegger:  technological approaches are forgetful of being which is hellish

SOUTHERN UTAH
T-"Regulations" is plural
T-"Federal government" is not the EPA
DA-China:  helping the environment hurts South/South alliance = tension = war w/Taiwan
DA-Neopopulism:  domestic environmental policy becomes globalized = neopolulist backlash 	= isolationism = numerous nuclear wars
DA-Industrial Flight
DA-Biotechnology


US AIR FORCE ACADEMY
T-"Substantial" means 1/2 or more
T-"Require":  effects pollution reduction but does not require it
T-"Require" means mandatory
DA-Industrial Flight
DA-Biotech:  oil use hurts biodiversity, biotech depends on biodiversity, biotech = 	bioweapons = A-life
DA-Neopopulism:  election key to growing populist movement--must integrate or
	there will be a backlash = isolationism = global nuke war & nuke terrorism
DA-China:  environmental policies spoil China's strategy to unify the South in a
	North/South conflict = war in Taiwan
CP-Anarchy

UTAH
T-"Regulation" is not prohibition
DA-Militia Backlash
DA-Biz Con
K-"Should":  no such thing
K-Ecofeminism
K-Objectivism
CP-Ban government

WEBER
T-"Regulation" effects by regulating a ban that subsequently stops emissions but is
	not a regulation of the emission itself
T-"Substantial" 
DA-Nader:  environmentalists only chance
DA-"Regulation"
K-Risk Analysis

WYOMING
T-"Reglation" is not a prohbition
DA-Neopopulism
DA-Industrial flight
DA-Environmental Imperialism:  based on North/South conflict from perception of a
	perceived threat that environmental regulations cause
DA-Saudi Oil Reliance:  Islamic backsash = Israeli war = Israeli nukes = nuclear winter

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