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    • 2023 Symposium: Building Effective, Sustainable, and Equitable Infrastructure.
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    • 2020 Symposium: Covid-19 and Environmental Justice
    • 2018 Symposium: Energy and Environmental Policy
    • Fall 2017 Symposium: Tackling Traffic
    • Spring 2017 Symposium: Green Cities
    • 2016 Symposium: Prosecuting International Wildlife Trafficking
    • 2015 Symposium: American Gas Exports
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    Human Rights Abuses from Carbon Credits – A Critique of “Greenwashing” Lawsuits and Additional Litigation Techniques

    January 15, 2024 - By ELJME

    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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    The “War on E-Bikes” Rides On: Exploring the Hudson River Greenway E-Bike Ban

    February 24, 2022 - By ELJME

    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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    Transparency in Regulatory Science — for Whom?

    June 3, 2021 - By ELJME

    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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    The Winds of Change: Investing in Floating Offshore Wind Development

    March 29, 2021 - By ELJME

    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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    The Origins of Federal Wildlife Regulation Under the Commerce Clause

    March 26, 2021 - By ELJME

    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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    Flying the Coop: The Trump Administration’s (Mis)Interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

    February 3, 2021 - By ELJME

    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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    ELRS Post: Week of December 21, 2020

    December 23, 2020 - By ELJME

    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.

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    Introducing a Voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for the New Plastics Economy

    December 23, 2020 - By ELJME

    By Hannah Yang, Articles Editor at N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Introduction Ocean plastic pollution is a large-scale problem that stems from multiple points of the plastics life cycle, ranging from design, production, use, disposal, and environmental leakage. Voluntary extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an important tool to address the plastics…

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    “A Great Deal of Discretion”: Bostock, Plain Text, and the Future of Climate Jurisprudence

    November 18, 2020 - By ELJME

    By Grace Weatherall, Managing Editor at the Harvard Environmental Law Review. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. Introduction Bostock v. Clayton County was marked for a place among landmark Supreme Court jurisprudence as soon as it arrived.. The decision protected LGBTQ+ employees from discrimination based on their sexual…

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    A Blooming Problem: How Florida Could Address the Causes and Effects of Red Tide

    December 21, 2018 - By ELJME

    By John Niedzwiecki, Senior Editor, Georgetown Environmental Law Review This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. I. An algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico is wreaking havoc on Florida’s economy and environment. An effective state and local response can help provide a solution. Florida’s southwest coast, once a…

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