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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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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.

2023 Annual Symposium — Panel 2: Effects of Climate Change on Rural Legal Work

Malia Libby

September 12th 2024

The second panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2023 Annual Symposium was entitled “Effects of Climate Change on Rural Legal Work.” The moderators were Sabrina Ashjian and Katalina Hadfield. Speakers included Estella Cisneros, John Meyer, and Kevin Hamilton.

2023 Annual Symposium — Individual Presentations from Speakers on Environmental Law in Rural Communities

Malia Libby

September 12th 2024

The penultimate session of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2023 Annual Symposium was entitled “Individual Presentations from Speakers on Environmental Law in Rural Communities.” The moderators were Anna Goldberg and Christina Libre. Speakers included Kevin Hamilton, Mary Cromer, and John Meyer.

2023 Annual Symposium — Panel 3: Working and Organizing within Rural-Facing Public Interest Work

Malia Libby

September 12th 2024

This is the culminating panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2023 Annual Symposium entitled “Working and Organizing within Rural-Facing Public Interest Work.” The moderators were Anna Goldberg and Christina Libre. Speakers included Tanmay Shula, John Meyer, Mary Cromer, Samantha Ruscavage-Barz, and Estella Cisneros.

Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 50.3

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

Articles Making Climate Pledges Stick: A Private Ordering Mechanism for Climate Commitments, by Oren Perez & Michal P. Vandenbergh Just Regulation: Improving Distributional Analysis in Agency Rulemaking, by Richard L. Revesz & Burçin Ünel The Exclusion of Environmental Justice and Race in Environmental Law Casebooks, by Helia Bidad Climate Change ...

Making Climate Pledges Stick: A Private Ordering Mechanism for Climate Commitments

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

Corporate climate commitments are an important part of the global response to climate change, but critics have warned that many of these pledges constitute empty commitments whose credibility is difficult to assess at best. This Article proposes two new financial instruments that address a core climate and corporate governance concern ...

Just Regulation: Improving Distributional Analysis in Agency Rulemaking

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

Taking account of the impacts of government action on historically marginalized and overburdened communities is a core policy goal of the Biden-Harris Administration. In this Article, we seek to understand the shortcomings of current agency practice and outline what agencies can do better.

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