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Harvard Environmental Law Review Environmental Law Review Syndicate The Winds of Change: Investing in Floating Offshore Wind Development March 25, 2021 by pdaniels by Cole Jermyn This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate.   Introduction The offshore wind power industry in the United States is at an inflection point. Only two projects have … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog 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 … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog HELR Volume 39, Issue 1 Now Available Online April 15, 2015 by hlsjrnldev The Harvard Environmental Law Review is pleased to announce that Volume 39, Issue 1 is now available in print and on the HELR website! Volume 39.1 features short essays and articles on a range of cutting … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog Jumbo-Sized Mouseholes: Comforting Thoughts on the Clean Power Plan, Part II June 3, 2015 by Harvard Law Development This summer, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is expected to promulgate the final version of its Clean Power Plan, a set of regulations aimed at decreasing the carbon dioxide (“CO2”) emissions … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog Environmental Law SSRN Reading List: January 2016 January 31, 2016 by After taking a much-needed Winter Break, the Harvard Environmental Law Review is back with another Environmental Law SSRN Reading List. Check out our motivation and methodology here. It seems like these authors had some time off in December too, because we’ve … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog [ELRS] Science And Deference: The “Best Available Science” Mandate is A Fiction in the Ninth Circuit November 7, 2016 by By Elizabeth Kuhn, Associate Editor, Lewis & Clark, Environmental Law* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate.  Introduction Many recent decisions by the Ninth Circuit[1] have required … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog Our Money is Safe, but the Planet Is Not: How the Carbon Bubble Will Cause Havoc for the Environment, but Not the Stock Market December 22, 2016 by By Breanna Hayes, Managing Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law I. Introduction Human use of fossil fuels dates back to prehistoric times.[1]  … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog FERC Relicensing and Its Continued Role in Improving Fish Passage at Pacific Northwest Dams October 4, 2017 by By Skylar Sumner, a third-year J.D. student at Lewis & Clark Law School.  This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate.  I. Introduction The history of the American west … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review HELR Blog Conduit for Peace in the Middle East: An Analysis of the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project March 12, 2018 by By Sarah L. Fine* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. I. Introduction The mythic Dead Sea—the highly salinated, low-altitude lake of international interest and importance—is … Read more