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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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Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 50.2

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

Foreword Becky Hunter & Grayson Peters Articles A California Environmental Court to Adjudicate Climate Change, by Becky Hunter Protecting Species and Timber Communities from Extinction: A Case Study on Spotted Owls, Logging, and Cooperative Management in Western Lane County, Oregon,  by Sierra Killian Closing the Ocean Fracking Gap: EPA Leadership ...

A California Environmental Court to Adjudicate Climate Change

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

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.

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

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

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

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

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

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.

The Californian Case for a Western RTO

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

CAISO provides many benefits to Californians, but a West-wide RTO could provide even more. The urgent need to garner new sources of renewable electricity generation necessitates that California facilitate the creation of a regional grid operator that can effectively promote the development of new, green transmission lines.

More Individualized and Easier to Follow: A Case for Changes to the Production of Pesticide Warning Labels

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

To fulfill its statutory mandate under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should provide information about risk factors for developing cancer, both in terms of individual risk profiles and making the results of the registration and re-registration reviews more accessible to the ...

Ending Pesticide Myopia: Broadening the Role of Alternatives in Assessing Dangerous Products Under FIFRA

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

EPA’s unambiguous duty to consider alternatives can be a forceful tool to cancel duplicative, hazardous pesticides. EPA should take advantage of that authority to protect unsuspecting consumers from pesticides that can be easily replaced by less harmful ones.

Today’s Crutch, Tomorrow’s Calamity: Interstate Aquifer Management Must Center Sustainable Yield

Linda Gordon

March 16th 2024

This Note demonstrates that the Court’s surface water equitable apportionment doctrine, which primarily protects established uses, is insufficient to protect interstate groundwater resources.

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