Volume 52 (2025)

Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 52 Special Issue Front Matter

Foreword to Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, Rural Unincorporated California: The Growth of Cities and Who is Left Behind.

Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium Introduction by Abby Neal, Jordan Perry, and Austin McNichols.

In the first event of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, Camille Pannu discussed what is unincorporated California, and how does it intersect with environmental justice?

In the second event of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, Miguel Rojas-Flores discussed the unique legal, structural, and practical challenges of providing clean drinking water to disadvantaged unincorporated communities.

In the third discussion of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, panelists discussed housing and sustainable growth.

In the last panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium panelists discussed the legal barriers to improving drinking water and wastewater systems in rural unincorporated communities.

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.