California Renters remains the gold standard for interpreting the HAA with its strict “reasonable person” standard and pro-housing bias. However, it remains to be seen whether the HAA can stand up to the delays, cost overruns, and outright project denials caused by California’s environmental review process under the California Environmental ...

Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), or the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, was signed into California state law in June of 2022 to both applause and criticism. This In Brief highlights many of the most pungent vulnerabilities and loopholes present in SB 54 that may lead to ...

Tort claims and toxic tort claims have long been a vehicle to address the gaps left by statutes. Butler v. Denka is one such case, and raises a fundamental question: can citizens successfully sue a factory that caused multiple cancer illnesses in their community by emitting excessive pollution?

In Mulberry, Tennessee, residents have begun noticing the growth of a suspicious black fungus. The most likely culprit? Whiskey. This article explores the various challenges and opportunities associated with the community’s use of state law to address the growth of this fungus and find recourse for themselves.

Donald Trump was hostile towards environmental regulation from his first day in office. From rolling back regulations, to appointing industry insiders and anti-environmentalists to important positions within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Justice (DOJ), and other agencies tasked with the enforcement of environmental laws, Trump intended to ...

This Article seeks to answer the following questions: What does the academic literature say about POC access to and use of blue space? What role, if any, does systemic racism and inequality play in creating barriers to access? Most historical accounts of any water-race nexus focused on the Black experience, ...

As this Article argues, then, we cannot achieve our climate goals without tackling fossil fuel financing, and that requires leadership by the Federal Reserve (the Fed)—the U.S. governmental institution that has been given primary responsibility for regulating our financial system. Part I of the Article grapples with the normative questions ...

The Article identifies state innovations in four categories that go beyond widely adopted “baseline” policies. They include policies that: establish affordability and access policy goals, provide express legal authority, and require data collection; reduce electricity demand through efficiency and renewable programs targeted to the most vulnerable; make electricity affordable, for ...