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Harvard Environmental Law Review property law Wallach v. Town of Dryden and Local Control of Hydraulic Fracturing November 20, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Carter Hall—November 20, 2014 at 11:03 a.m. On June 30 of this year the Court of Appeals of New York issued its final ruling in Wallach v. Town of Dryden, … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review profit maximization Protecting pensions in the face of climate change and corporate law January 21, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Molly Cohen — Jan. 21 at 10:25am As climate change threatens to reshape our coastlines and rewrite our expected weather patterns, it poses another less obvious but very real threat: climate change … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review Professor Joel Eisen Smart Rules for the Smart Grid (HELR Podcast) October 24, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Sachin Desai — Oct. 24, 2013 at 8:18am What makes the Smart Grid “smart”?  Of course the technology plays a role.  Grid-scale batteries allow renewable energy generators to be more competitive.  New smart meters … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review preemption Comment: North Carolina v. Tennessee Valley Authority April 1, 2011 by wpengine By Nigel Barella In North Carolina v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 615 F.3d 291 (4th Cir. 2010), the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the federal Clean Air Act preempted certain, if not all, applications of … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review power industry Toward Greener FERC Regulation of the Power Industry August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev August 12, 2014 at 1:30pm America’s electricity industry is at the heart of some of the nation’s and world’s biggest environmental challenges, including climate change. Yet the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), which has regulatory jurisdiction … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review power generation Toward Greener FERC Regulation of the Power Industry August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev August 12, 2014 at 1:30pm America’s electricity industry is at the heart of some of the nation’s and world’s biggest environmental challenges, including climate change. Yet the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), which has regulatory jurisdiction … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review pollution Settling Accounts from the BP Gulf Oil Spill October 29, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Elinor Tarlow — October 29 at 6:22 p.m. More than four years ago, BP’s Macondo well exploded, killing 11 men and spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The surrounding … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review podcast Smart Rules for the Smart Grid (HELR Podcast) October 24, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Sachin Desai — Oct. 24, 2013 at 8:18am What makes the Smart Grid “smart”?  Of course the technology plays a role.  Grid-scale batteries allow renewable energy generators to be more competitive.  New smart meters allow homeowners … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review pesticides Transition Policy in Environmental Law April 1, 2011 by wpengine By Bruce R. Huber Embedded within the structure of much American environmental regulation is a distinction between the new and the existing. This distinction reflects a recurrent political challenge for environmental policymakers: whether and how to mitigate regulatory burdens when … Read more