Rights for Lake Erie?
Voters in Toledo, Ohio, passed this February a citizen-based initiative that amends the city charter to add a new section entitled “Lake Erie Bill...
Environmental Law
Sierra Club v. U.S. Department of the Interior
Fourth Circuit Vacates Environmental Approvals for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Vol. 132 No. 3
Climate Change and Conservatism
In early October, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming new report on the impact climate change will have on the...
RCRA as a Tool for Environmental Justice Communities and Others to Compel Climate Change Adaptation
Vol. 131 No. 8
The spate of natural disasters in 2017 palpably illustrated how ill-prepared the United States is for climate change. And though all Americans have contributed...
Elon Musk’s ‘Starman’: Is it Really Legal for Billionaires to Launch Their Roadsters into Space?
On a sunny Tuesday in February, SpaceX, the privately held rocket company of billionaire Elon Musk, launched a 23-story tall rocket, known as the...
Saving Coal: A Tale of Two Agencies
Generating electricity from coal is a dirty business. Coal mining and power production release toxic heavy metals like mercury, respiratory irritants like sulfur dioxide...
The Looming Battle over the Antiquities Act
On December 4, 2017, President Trump announced his long-anticipated decisions to shrink two major national monuments in southern Utah. Trump shrunk the Bears Ears...
The Other 46 Percent: New Law of the Sea Negotiation on High Seas Biodiversity
Don’t the high seas seem less remote than they used to? Many of us have gazed out an airplane window on an intercontinental flight...
Making Sense of the National Monuments Conflict
The environmental community has been waiting for a shoe to drop ever since April 26th, when President Trump issued Executive Order 13792. The Order...
Advising the EPA: The Insidious Undoing of Expert Government
The modern administrative state was built on the promise of expertise. As James Landis argued in his New Deal-era defense of the bureaucracy, expert...