Myles Osborne* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original and leave a comment here. In late October 2015, the Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility began spewing natural gas into the air over the San Fernando Valley at a rate of 110,000 pounds per hour.[1] Composed primarily of…
This week’s ELRS post, BioTransport: Moving Wildlife in Response to Climate Change, was written by Stacy Shelton of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Read it here!
By Stacy Shelton, Staff Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here. “If climate change continues unabated and as rapidly as a few models predict, saving at least some species will require solutions more radical than creating parks and shielding endangered species from bullets, bulldozers, and oil spills:…
This week’s post, What the Supreme Court’s Stay of the Clean Power Plan Means for the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulation Moving Forward, was written by Benjamin Harris of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy. Read it here!
By Benjamin Harris* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. The Clean Power Plan (“CPP”), announced and promulgated in late 2015 by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and backed by President Barack Obama, seeks to develop a comprehensive regulatory scheme over the nation’s power plants in an effort…
This week’s post, Clean Power Planning: Unlike with Obamacare, States are Preparing for Clean Power Plan Compliance Even as they Fight it in the Courts, was written by Georgetown Environmental Law Review staff member Jennifer Golinsky. Read it here!
By Jennifer Golinsky, Staff Contributor, Georgetown Environmental Law Review. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. When the EPA released its draft of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in June 2014,[1] commentators were quick to draw comparisons[2] to Obamacare (i.e., the Patient Protection and Affordable…
This week’s post was written by Shea Diaz of the Georgetown Environmental Law Review. Read Getting to the Root of Environmental Injustice here!
By Shea Diaz, Georgetown Environmental Law Review This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. In the United States, poor people and people of color experience higher cancer rates,[1] asthma rates,[2] mortality rates,[3] and overall poorer health than their affluent and white counterparts.[4] The Environmental Justice Movement…
The Articles and Note comprising ELJ’s third issue of Volume 23 are now available for online reading. Click the links below to check out our latest publication! Donald J. Kochan, Keepings Hope M. Babcock, What Can Be Done, If Anything, About the Dangerous Penchant of Public Trust Scholars to Overextend Joseph Sax’s Original Conception: Have We Produced a Bridge Too Far? Note:…