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A California Environmental Court to Adjudicate Climate Change

Climate change creates mitigation and adaptation needs across the country, especially in California, which faces flooding, erosion, fire, and extreme weather. To armor against the rising tide of climate change and its accompanying flood of litigation, California should create a specialized environmental court to adjudicate state climate issues. (read more)

Closing the Ocean Fracking Gap: EPA Leadership Is Needed to Regulate Aging Rigs and Evolving Risks Offshore

This Note explores how fracking has slipped through the cracks in a closely regulated industry. Examining the root of the problem, this Note outlines how we might design an administrative apparatus to address emerging environmental harms in the context of aging oil and gas infrastructure. (read more)

Protecting Species and Timber Communities from Extinction: A Case Study on Spotted Owls, Logging, and Cooperative Management in Western Lane County, Oregon

This Note uses western Lane County as a case study to diagnose sticking points in conservation under the ESA and prescribe characteristics of management strategies more likely to sustain both resource extraction-dependent communities and populations of listed specie (read more)

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Volume 51.1 Front Matter

Malia Libby

December 2nd 2024

Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 51.1 Front Matter

Managed Retreat of Agriculture in the Arid West

Malia Libby

December 2nd 2024

The displacement of western agriculture due to drought retreat will likely be more severe than prior western retreats, due to climate change, urbanization, and uncounted water claims. This Article advocates that the federal government respond to the drought retreat crisis by providing economic relief to small farmers via agricultural managed ...

Preparing for the Climate Crisis: OSHA, Deadly Heat, and Emergency Powers

Malia Libby

December 2nd 2024

This Article draws on the example of OSHA’s consideration of an emergency heat rule to offer a new way of thinking about the use of emergency power by federal administrative agencies in the climate context.

Permitting Reform’s False Choice

Malia Libby

December 2nd 2024

Combatting climate change will involve a monumental effort to build low- and zero-carbon infrastructure. This Article presents the first national study of federal permitting and environmental reviews for energy infrastructure constructed between 2010 and 2021. The analysis reveals that most projects had streamlined administrative procedures or avoided federal regulation altogether.

Shared Stewardship

Malia Libby

December 2nd 2024

States and the federal government lack crucial knowledge related to effective management of the country’s unique environmental treasures. Tribes’ environmental ethics, traditional ecological knowledge, and experience managing natural resources make them uniquely qualified to assume larger responsibilities in stewarding public lands. Shared stewardship will lead to better management of national ...

Building Certainty into the Electric Transition: Tools to Resist Ideological Instability

Joyce Chen

October 14th 2024

With billions on the line, an entire new infrastructure to build, novel connections between the transportation and electric and building sectors, and a shifting global trade web, the last thing industry needs is to find out what Samuel Alito thinks James Madison might have thought about batteries. Electoral uncertainty in ...

2023 Annual Symposium — Foreword

Malia Libby

September 12th 2024

Ecology Law Quarterly’s Annual Symposium is a forum for leading voices in environmental and energy law, policy, and advocacy. The 2023 Annual Symposium explored the challenges and opportunities of rural lawyering. The event highlighted the unique environmental and social issues faced by rural communities.

2023 Annual Symposium — Panel 1: Effects of the Energy Transition on Rural Legal Work

Malia Libby

September 12th 2024

The first panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2023 Annual Symposium was entitled “Effects of the Energy Transition on Rural Legal Work.” The moderators were Katalina Hadfield, Christina Libre, Anna Goldberg, and Sabrina Ashjian. Speakers included Mary Cromer, Tanmay Shukla, and Samantha Ruscavage-Barz.

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