This week’s post is The Legislative History of the National Park Service’s Conservation and Nonimpairment Mandate.  It was written by Caitlin Brown, a 3L at Berkeley Law and Co-Editor in Chief of Ecology Law Quarterly.  Read the post here.

By Caitlin Brown Caitlin Brown is a 3L at Berkeley Law and Co-Editor in Chief of Ecology Law Quarterly.   This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate (ELRS).  Read the original at Ecology Law Quarterly’s website.  Introduction The National Park Service manages over 84 million acres of land divided between 413 different sites, and in 2015 alone, served 307.2 million visitors.[1] Their management goals are based on the 1916 National Park Service Organic Act (“the Act”). Section 1 of the Act defines the Park Service’s purpose as “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects…

Read within: Our Money Is Safe, But The Planet Is Not: How The Carbon Bubble Will Cause Havoc For The Environment, But Not The Stock Market.  This week’s article was written by Breanna Hayes, Managing Editor of Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.    

By Breanna Hayes, Managing Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. I. Introduction Human use of fossil fuels dates back to prehistoric times.[1]  Before the Industrial Revolution, humans mostly relied on wood, wind, and water as energy sources.[2]  But as the Industrial Revolution progressed, humans developed a dependence on fossil fuels.[3]  In addition, the advancements of the Industrial Revolution allowed for the human population to grow rapidly.[4]  Combined, these facts indicate that, not only were humans developing a greater dependence on fossil fuels, but also there were more humans on earth…

This week’s post, The Importance of GIS in Emergency Management, was written by Monika Holser, UCLA School of Law, Class of 2018.  Read it here.

By Monika Holser, UCLA School of Law, Class of 2018 This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. GIS (geographic information system) is a computer system for “capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface.”[1]  It allows multiple layers of information to be displayed at once, enabling one to visualize and understand relationships on a map.[2]  Different types of information can be overlaid in the program regardless of their original format or source.[3]  According to ESRI, GIS is described as the “go-to technology” for location-based…

This week’s post was written by NYU ELJ’s very own Julie Amadeo, J.D. 2016! Read her post, Judging a Book by its Cover:  The Tension between Evidentiary Gatekeeping and Compensatory Theories of Tort.  

By Julie Amadeo, J.D. 2016, New York University School of Law  This article has been adapted from a larger work.   This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. I. Introduction Human minds are primed to jump to conclusions. Call them intuitions, or things we just know, our ability to draw conclusions is a survival instinct, developed over many years of evolutionary progress. Now assume a man has been largely healthy his entire life. Maybe this man is a line worker at a factory, or a firefighter, or even just a soccer player. Suddenly, he learns that he…

This week’s post, Constitutions & the Environment: Comparative Approaches to Environmental Protection and the Struggle to Translate Rights into Enforcement, was written by Kyle Burns, J.D. Candidate (2017) at University of Virginia School of Law.   Read the post here.