Harvard Environmental Law Review Wildlife Law is a Local Issue, Too April 29, 2023 by shunt David M. Walsh* View pdf here Introduction The Supreme Court’s 1920 decision in Missouri v. Holland1* B.A., Florida State University; J.D. candidate, Harvard Law School. This essay began as a seminar paper for Mr. Eric Glitzenstein’s Wildlife Law seminar … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Applying Consumer Protection Basics to Greenwashing “Recyclability” Cases April 10, 2023 by shunt Alison Borochoff-Porte and John Cooper1Alison Borochoff-Porte is an attorney and John Cooper is a paralegal at Pollock Cohen LLP, a boutique litigation firm, where they specialize in environmental and class action cases, author Supreme Court amicus briefs, and … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Climate Change Adaptation and the Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Land & Resources in Latin America March 3, 2023 by shunt By Terrence Neal* View pdf here Scientists predict that climate change will adversely impact the ancestral lands of the approximately fifty million indigenous people inhabiting Latin America and thereby undermine the … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Standing to Appeal Administrative Decisions in Massachusetts: A Game of Bait and Switch? January 11, 2023 by shunt Shaun A. Goho View pdf here I. Introduction Courts, commenters, and advocates express diverging views about the appropriate degree of stringency courts should apply when assessing the standing of plaintiffs asserting environmental interests. … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Taking On “Now We’re Cooking with Gas”: How a Health-First Approach to Gas Stove Pollution Could Unlock Building Electrification August 29, 2022 by shunt Aaron Regunberg View pdf here 1. Introduction It is no secret that segments of the climate and environmental justice movements sometimes find themselves in tension. Some climate … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Offshore Wind Energy and the Potential of State-Led Development July 8, 2022 by jolinski Lily Cohen* View pdf here Introduction Offshore wind has the potential to help the United States transition away from fossil fuels, and yet, the United States has only built two small offshore wind farms.[1] Despite efforts to … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Changing Paradigms for a Low-Carbon World May 25, 2022 by jolinski K.K. DuVivier[*] & Tara Righetti[†] View PDF here Abstract Energy companies are making billions of dollars in bids and investments to tie up development rights for wind energy and kick start commercial-scale carbon removal projects.[1] Embracing these new technologies and … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Combating Nutrient Pollution and Flooding with TMDLs in the Mississippi River Watershed May 25, 2022 by jolinski Tori Molyneaux* View PDF here Introduction In the summer of 2017, the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico—an area with such low dissolved oxygen that it cannot sustain most aquatic life[1]—hit its peak … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Western Water Conflicts and the Sleeping Giant of the ESA April 2, 2022 by jolinski Alexander Khan[*] View PDF here Introduction Since its passage in 1973, the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”)[1] has remained the subject of significant controversy. Those in favor of conservation claim, among other things, that its listing procedures … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Win or Hidden Hurdle?: A Critical Analysis of County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (2020) December 29, 2021 by jolinski by: Vanessa Daza Castillo View pdf here Introduction County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund[1] is being vaunted as “the Clean Water Act case of the century”[2] and “the Court’s … Read more