Harvard Environmental Law Review Farm Policy and Environmental Protection: It’s Time to Raise the Bar April 16, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Linda K. Breggin and Bruce Myers — Apr. 16 at 4:43pm When the new Farm Bill finally passed this February, two years behind schedule, many environmental groups breathed a sigh of relief–if … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Unilateral Climate Regulation April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By James W. Coleman It is now plain that decades of negotiation toward a binding global climate treaty have failed. Yet, at the same time, many nations are adopting a range of unilateral policies to address climate change. The existing literature on climate … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Prosecutorial Discretion and Environmental Crime April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By David M. Uhlmann Prosecutorial discretion exists throughout the criminal justice system but plays a particularly significant role for environmental crime. Congress made few distinctions under the environmental laws between acts that could result in criminal, civil, or administrative enforcement. As … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Performance Track’s Postmortem: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of EPA’s “Flagship” Voluntary Program April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash For nearly a decade, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) considered its National Environmental Performance Track to be its “flagship” voluntary program — even a … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Mapping Fracking: An Analysis of Law, Power, and Regional Distribution in the United States April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Benjamin E. Apple This Note posits a framework with which to analyze U.S. fracking development at local and regional scales. It aims to illuminate the ways in which three legal regimes … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Revolutionary or Routine? Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Molly Cohen and Rachel Proctor May Cite as: Molly Cohen and Rachel Proctor May, Revolutionary or Routine? Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, 38 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 245 (2014). [btn link=”http://harvardelr.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/Cohen__Proctor_May_Print1.pdf” … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Becoming Good Neighbors After EME Homer Generation, L.P. v. EPA April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Jeremy Feigenbaum Cite as: Jeremy Feigenbaum, Becoming Good Neighbors After EME Homer Generation, L.P. v. EPA, 38 Harv Envtl. L. Rev. 259 (2014). [btn link=”http://harvardelr.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/Feigenbaum_Print1.pdf” color=”forestGreen” size=”size-l”]View Full Article (PDF)[/btn] Filed Under: Print Articles, Student … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Automatically Green: Behavioral Economics and Environmental Protection April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch Careful attention to choice architecture promises to open up new possibilities for environmental protection — possibilities that may be more effective than the standard tools of economic incentives, mandates, and bans. … Read more