Harvard Environmental Law Review conservation easements Perpetuity Is Forever, Almost Always: Why It Is Wrong To Promote Amendment and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements May 14, 2013 by wpengine By Ann T. Schwing When a landowner makes a charitable gift of a conservation easement to a nonprofit organization or government entity and elects to seek … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review conservation compliance 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 … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review competence allocation Subsidiarity in European Environmental Law: A Competence Allocation Approach August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Josephine van Zeben Since the 1970s, the influence of the European Union in the area of environmental law and policy has steadily expanded, even though environmental policy continues to be a shared competence between … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review common pool resources New Day at the Pool: State Preemption, Common Pool Resources, and Non-Place Based Municipal Collaborations August 1, 2012 by wpengine By Jonathan Rosenbloom State preemption laws strictly limit local governments from regulating beyond their borders. Local governments, however, face a broad spectrum of challenges that cannot be confined … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review commerce clause Commerce in the Commons: A Unified Theory of Natural Capital Regulation Under the Commerce Clause August 1, 2011 by wpengine By Blake Hudson Scholars continue to debate the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause authority and whether fluctuations in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause jurisprudence place federal environmental regulatory … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review combined sewer overflows 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 … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Coleman Unilateral Climate Action and Collective Change: What Can University Divestment Do? June 2, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Daniel Carpenter-Gold — June 2 at 5:40pm This blog post contains the views of the author alone, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Professor Coleman or ELR staff. “What … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA 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 … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review climate policy 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 … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review climate change Carbon Offsets are a Bridge Too Far in the Tradable Property Rights Revolution August 1, 2012 by wpengine By Tyler McNish Tradable property rights-based carbon offsets are widely used as a policy tool for combating the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. However, academics, non-governmental organizations, and market … Read more