Harvard Environmental Law Review greenhouse gases The First Cut is the Deepest: EPA Proposes First GHG Cuts for Power Plants October 9, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Cecilia Segal — Oct. 9, 2013 at 2:14pm On September 20, 2013, EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to set standards of performance for GHGs emitted from new … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review greenhouse gas regulations The First Cut is the Deepest: EPA Proposes First GHG Cuts for Power Plants October 9, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Cecilia Segal — Oct. 9, 2013 at 2:14pm On September 20, 2013, EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to set standards of performance for GHGs emitted from … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review greenhouse gas emissions Comment: American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut April 10, 2012 by wpengine By David R. Brody On June 20, 2011, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous and straightforward decision that the Clean Air Act displaces federal common law public nuisance claims against greenhouse gas emitters. The decision solidifies … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review greenhouse gas emissions 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 … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review greenhouse gas emissions 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 … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review green solutions Parks!: Making the world better one municipal sewage system at a time August 6, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Alec Harris — Aug. 6, 2013 at 11:19am Municipal sewage cases are hot these days at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Enforcement Section. Across the country, … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review green infrastructure Solving the CSO Conundrum: Green Infrastructure and the Unfulfilled Promise of Federal-Municipal Cooperation August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Caswell F. Holloway, Carter H. Strickland, Jr., Michael B. Gerrard, and Daniel M. Firger Faced with mounting infrastructure construction costs and more frequent and severe weather events due to climate … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review green defaults 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, … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review green behavior Automatically Green November 18, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Caroline Stern — Nov. 18, 2013 at 5:16pm Over the coming months, the ELR blog will be publishing a series of blog posts that preview articles that will appear in the forthcoming Volume 38.1. This blog is the first in that … Read more