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The Rise of Anti-Regulatory Legal Advocacy: The Farm Bureau Case Study

This case study of the American Farm Bureau Federation uncovers how corporate financial power, filtered through a nonprofit shell, is fundamentally redirecting natural resource policy and the future of federal administrative authority. (read more)

An Abundance of Risk: Federal Under-Regulation of Carbon Capture

This Article discusses the unique set of near- and long-term risks for local communities and broader climate goals presented by carbon capture use and storage infrastructure, which demands more regulation—and less abundance. (read more)

Worker and Community Strong: Labor and Community Tools for New Mexico’s Clean Energy Sector

This Article explores how New Mexico—and similarly situated states—can build a clean energy industry that offers strong worker protections, livable wages, and robust benefits for clean energy workers and the communities near those projects. (read more)

Life Cycles and Loopholes

This Article aims to better understand how to address biofuel greenhouse gas accounting shortfalls at the subnational level. (read more)

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Navigating with an Ocean Liner: The Clean Water Rule, Trump’s Executive Order, and the Future of “Waters of the United States”

Computer Courage

April 18th 2017

Kacy Manahan* Kacy Manahan is the a clinical student at Earthrise Law Center at Lewis & Clark Law School and the 2017-2018 Symposium Editor for Environmental Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate (ELRS).    I. Introduction The scope of the Clean Water Act’s jurisdiction has ...

Funding Adaptation: Financing Resiliency Through Sea Level Derivatives

ELQ Journal

April 18th 2017

  Sevren Gourley*            Sevren Gourley is the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate (ELRS).  Coastal municipalities are struggling to address the uncertain future risks created by sea level rise. Conventional models of ex ante protection and ex post relief are ...

An Autopsy of the Clean Power Plan

ELQ Journal

April 12th 2017

John Copeland Nagle* [ download PDF ] The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was supposed to be great. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated its regulation as “a historic and important step,” “fair, flexible and designed to strengthen the fast-growing trend toward cleaner and lower-polluting American energy,” providing “national consistency, accountability ...

Enough Horsing Around

Computer Courage

March 3rd 2017

Joseph Godio Joseph Godio is the Senior Editor of Georgetown Environmental Law Review. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate (ELRS).   I.       Introduction New York City is a city thought by many to be one of the most incredible, majestic, and beautiful cities in the world.  Its prominence ...

Bridging the Divide: Incorporating Interflow into Legal Discourse on Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions

ELQ Journal

March 3rd 2017

Reshmina William* and A. Bryan Endres**  [ download PDF ] Introduction Despite the traditional separation of groundwater and surface water in academic and legal literature, both systems are in fact tightly interconnected. This artificial distinction persists due to the idea that groundwater movement takes place on a much larger timescale ...

Climate Change Regulation Through Litigation: New York’s Investigation of ExxonMobil under the Martin Act

Computer Courage

February 24th 2017

Chris Erickson Chris Erickson is a Junior Editor of the Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law at the University of Michigan Law School. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate (ELRS). In November 2015, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman began an investigation into whether ExxonMobil ...

Race Judicata

Computer Courage

January 28th 2017

Race Judicata is a 5/10k race around the UC Berkeley campus sponsored by ELQ. Race Judicata raises funds for fellowships to support unpaid summer public interest and public sector positions. Come join us and run for a worthy cause.

Annual Banquet

Computer Courage

January 28th 2017

At this fundraising banquet, ELQ honors not only influential members of the environmental community through the Environmental Leadership Award but also sponsors the year’s best student writers with our writing awards.

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