Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 52.3 Front Matter

This Article posits that spot zoning claims, as utilized today, effectively push harmful industries away from wealthier, whiter communities to frontline communities and explores the underlying implications of all spot zoning claim criteria to explain how land use practitioners and reviewing courts could curb these trends without violating stare decisis.

This Article evaluates the adequacy of public engagement with respect to overall carbon dioxide removal policies as well as the siting and operation of individual direct air capture and storage facilities.

This Article addresses the question of whether it is possible to persuade regulated individuals and entities to comply with law when they face vanishingly low odds of being the target of enforcement activity through a field experiment testing the relative efficacy of different messaging strategies in motivating compliance with under-enforced ...

This Article proposes to resolve the criticism that foreign coal investors’ use of international investment law to challenge coal phase-out measures is chilling climate action by suggesting a contextual interpretation of foreign investors’ legitimate expectations by taking into account the nature of climate transition.

Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 52.2 Front Matter

We are honored to introduce Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2024-25 Annual Review, presented in this 52.2 edition. The Annual Review is unique in authorship, scope, and scale: All pieces within this edition are scholarship written by Berkeley Law students and recent graduates. The range of topics analyzed reflects the wide scope ...

This Note explains how the Eighth Circuit found that EPA’s decision to ban the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops, which was based on the Ninth Circuit’s interpretation of its statutory mandate, was arbitrary and capricious. The Note then argues the reasoning employed by the Eighth Circuit to reach this ...