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 ...

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 ...

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.

The practice of environmental law today is increasingly attentive to environmental justice, and interest in centering environmental justice in the practice of environmental law has only grown in more recent generations of environmental law students. This Article represents the first critical environmental law casebook review in three decades and is ...

This Article reviews this history and its role in the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970. This history has important implications for the scope of EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act in light of the Court’s articulation of the major questions doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA.

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, using cultural burning to generate carbon credits by way of the Australian savanna burning program annually provides $50 million AUD ($33 million USD) in revenue, achieves a reduction of more than one million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and provides jobs, training, ...

As climate change experts increasingly warn that the world is approaching a breaking point, the question feels less theoretical and more urgent: can international law offer answers to the prospect of mass displacement in relation to climate change? This paper provides a concise overview of the conversation, examining the variety ...

“America, America has a problem.” That problem is lead: a highly toxic metal that contaminates our drinking water. Health disparities emerge, disproportionately impacting Black communities. This Article delves into America’s history of lead in drinking water, recent regulatory efforts, and proposed rulemaking that will lead to a lasting solution.