Will Grossenbacher* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. From October 2–5, 2015, the State of South Carolina, and the City of Charleston in particular, experienced historic rains: sites in the Charleston area reported up to twenty-six inches of rain.[1] The downpour combined with high tides to create flooding…
This week’s post, titled Implementing Supplemental Environmental Project Policies to Promote Restorative Justice, is by Eric Anthony DeBellis, Senior Executive Editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly. Read it here!
by Eric Anthony DeBellis, Senior Executive Editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. Introduction The overwhelming majority of environmental enforcement actions settle out of court, but overlooking settlements as merely a mechanical means to save time and court costs is a mistake.…
This week’s post, Scalia’s Swan Song: The “Irreconcilability Canon” Resolves the Clean Air Act’s Section 111(d) Drafting Error and Encourages Good Lawmaking, was written by Brenden Cline, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Read it here!
By Brenden Cline, Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Environmental Law Review This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. [This] is a ‘rare case.’ It is and should be . . . . But every generation or so a case comes along when this Court needs to say enough is enough. — Chief…
This week’s post from the Environmental Law Review Syndicate, titled Plugging the Regulatory Holes: How to Prevent the Next Aliso Canyon Catastrophe, was written by Myles Osborne of the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law. Read it here!
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!