By Anna Dell’Amico This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Editor’s Note: This article was originally written for a class in spring 2023, and all lawsuits mentioned are up to date as of summer of 2023. It is becoming increasingly common for companies, governments, and other institutions to make net-zero climate pledges, but they often plan to…
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By Aaron Regunberg,[1] Donald Braman,[2] and David Arkush[3] Introduction “Climate change is not a tragedy, it’s a crime.” This refrain, increasingly common among climate activists,[4] encapsulates rising moral outrage at major fossil fuel companies (“FFCs”) like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP as more information has come to light about their knowledge and conduct regarding climate change. The essential fact…
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Demand for Compensation and Call for Solidarity The editors of this journal have come together with the editors of journals across the country to demand compensation for the work we do to publish legal scholarship. Our demand rests on one fundamental principle: Uncompensated labor is wrong. In the below, Journal Work Essay, we expand on this argument and present other…
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By Ashwin Telang This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. ____________________________________________ In his distinguished essay collection, Henry A. Giroux writes about the violence of forgetting.[1] Giroux touches on how the American media has weaponized ignorance and how important issues are slowly fading from public discourse. Unfortunately, Giroux misses out on one of the deadliest examples of the…
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By William C. Rose, Managing Editor at N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Introduction E-bikes[1] were legalized across New York State in April 2020 following a period of unintentional illegality that spawned punitive enforcement measures against the food delivery riders who rely on e-bikes in New York City. In the course of…
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By Lilly Leibu, Digital Editor at N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Introduction Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Andrew Wheeler purported to rid EPA of “secret science” and “[empower] the American people to demand future transparency” with a regulation that stakeholders such as Big Tobacco and coal-funded groups have…
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By Cole Jermyn, Editor-in-Chief at Harvard Environmental Law Review. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. Introduction The offshore wind power industry in the United States is at an inflection point. Only two projects have been constructed up to this point: the Block Island wind farm off Rhode Island,…
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By Kathryn E. Kovacs, Professor at Rutgers Law School, The State University of New Jersey. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. June 8, 2020, marked the eightieth anniversary of the Bald Eagle Protection Act—the first federal statute to rely on the Commerce Clause for the authority to prohibit…
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By Alexander Liguori, Managing Editor at N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Introduction Any good survey of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws will likely cover the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, but hardly any would find time for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”). Passed in 1918 to curb exploding…
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This week’s post, Introducing a Voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for the New Plastics Economy, was written by Hannah Yang, a third-year student at New York University School of Law and an Articles Editor of the New York University Environmental Law Journal. Read the post here.