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!
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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…
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This week’s post was written by Shea Diaz of the Georgetown Environmental Law Review. Read Getting to the Root of Environmental Injustice here!
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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…
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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:…
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David Williams* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. In the wake of Massachusetts v. EPA,[1] the EPA fashioned new regulations to cover greenhouse gasses. As part of the new suite of regulations, the agency promulgated a “Tailoring Rule”[2] that departed from the plain text of…
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This week’s ELRS post, titled Administrative Necessity: Origin and Application to EPA’s Tailoring Rule, was written by David Williams, an editor for the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. Read it here!
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By Daniel Carpenter-Gold, Managing Editor, Harvard Environmental Law Review. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. It’s done. Like a reluctant Odysseus, we have fastened ourselves to the mast of emissions reductions with Bungee cords (not too tight, now!) and stuffed one ear full of wax—just in…
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This week, ELRS features a post by Daniel Carpenter-Gold, a Managing Editor of Harvard Environmental Law Review. Read La Vie en Vert here!
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Malia McPherson Stanford Law School, J.D. Candidate Class of 2016 This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. To see the original post and leave a comment, click here. Introduction On November 4, 2014, the voters of San Benito County passed Measure J, a voter initiative banning hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) and all other high-intensity petroleum operations within county…