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Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 52.4 Front Matter

Foreword to Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium, Toxic Exposures: Within and Without.

Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium Introduction by Ellie Rubinstein and Liam Chun Hong Gunn.

In the first panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium, panelists discussed how farmworkers and farmworker families are overexposed and harmed by toxic chemical pesticides and how people are making a difference.

In the second event of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium, Arnedra Jordan discussed beauty justice, what it means, why it matters, and how it impacts our health.

In the third panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium, panelists discussed building electrification, which lies at the intersection of public health protection, climate change mitigation, and housing justice.

In the fourth panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium, panelists discussed noxious facilities in local communities, specifically the Chevron refinery in Richmond and the proposed expansion of the Oakland International Airport, and community efforts to address these issues.

In the last event of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium, panelists expanded upon the themes of the prior panel with a specific discussion of health and environmental justice issues in the Bayview-Hunters Point community.

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 ...

This Note argues that, while it is far from guaranteed, Texas v. New Mexico may present Native American tribes with a unique way to finally see their water rights addressed in water compacts.

This Note examines past failed federal legislation to investigate why the ADVANCE Act may have lost its nuclear closure communities provision. This Note also discusses why nuclear closure communities deserve support, drawing parallels between the economic devastation that nuclear closure communities experience and the similar circumstances coal communities face in ...

Offshore wind energy represents a critical opportunity for America’s clean energy transition, yet community opposition remains a significant barrier to its success. This paper introduces the concept of “social derisking,” which emphasizes stakeholder collaboration as a strategy to mitigate the risks of project delays and cancellations due to a lack ...

This Note argues that the Corner Post principle presents a transformative shift in environmental litigation, particularly under the Endangered Species Act, by extending the date for claim accrual and enabling plaintiffs to challenge longstanding agency regulations and decisions that continue to harm vulnerable species. This principle facilitates an opportunity for ...