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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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Cultural Burning Can Mitigate Climate Change and Produce Income for Native American Tribes

Dana Dabbousi

July 28th 2024

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, ...

On the Brink of a “Mass Exodus,” Can International Law Adequately Protect “Climate Refugees”?

Dana Dabbousi

June 27th 2024

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 ...

Pour Decisions: Legal Reform for America’s Lead in Drinking Water Crisis

Dana Dabbousi

April 18th 2024

“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.

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.

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