Harvard Environmental Law Review 2021 Print Symposium: Environmental Justice – accepting submissions August 4, 2020 by pdaniels Our Spring 2021 issue will be a Symposium on Environmental Justice. We welcome submissions that comment on, for example, the impact of environmental law—from climate change to toxics to consultation—in marginalized communities, the role whiteness has played in … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Going Green: The Federal Reserve’s Legal Authority to Combat Climate Change April 11, 2020 by gglovin By Matthew Razzano*Law Clerk. J.D., Notre Dame Law School, 2019; M.Sc., London School of Economics, 2016; B.A., University of Notre Dame, 2012. Twenty years ago, a deputy governor of the Bank of England (“BOE”) remarked … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Changes to SALT Deductibility Reduce Tax Benefits for Environmental Conservation Donations April 11, 2020 by gglovin By Daniel Pessar*Daniel Pessar (dpessar@jd20.law.harvard.edu) is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School (class of 2020). The author would like to thank Leigh Youngblood, Executive Director of the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust and Tom … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Embracing Aggregation: How to Protect the Endangered Species Act at the Supreme Court November 21, 2019 by gglovin By Charlie Birkel*Charlie Birkel (HLS ’19) is a law clerk to the Hon. Jan E. DuBois of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Trump administration has attracted … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Conservation Necessity and the Supreme Court’s Historical Blunder November 7, 2019 by gglovin By Jesse Lempel*Jesse Lempel (HLS ‘19) is a law clerk to the Hon. William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Last year, after selling about 4,000 endangered alligator eggs, Jack Turtle … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review 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 drying up.[1] … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Broadening Common Heritage: Addressing Gaps in the Deep Sea Mining Regulatory Regime April 16, 2018 by Harvard Law Development By Julie Hunter, Pradeep Singh, & Julian Aguon* With recent technological advances1This is an example of new inline footnotes plugin and growing demand for minerals used in consumer electronics, deep sea mining … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Parsing Rapanos April 7, 2018 by By Wade Foster This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. The original post is linked here. I. INTRODUCTION On January 31, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) finalized a rule delaying implementation of the Obama-era Clean … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Finding the Match in the Haystack Before it Lights Up the West Again: Congress to Create a Wildfire Commission April 14, 2018 by By Kelly Brantzi* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. The original post is linked here. Introduction The summer of 2017 set the West on fire, … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach February 18, 2018 by James D. Flynn* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Introduction In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse … Read more