Harvard Environmental Law Review James T.B. Tripp Toward Greener FERC Regulation of the Power Industry August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Christopher J. Bateman and James T.B. Tripp America’s electricity industry is at the heart of some of the nation’s and world’s biggest environmental challenges, including climate change. Yet the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review investment strategy Protecting pensions in the face of climate change and corporate law January 21, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Molly Cohen — Jan. 21 at 10:25am As climate change threatens to reshape our coastlines and rewrite our expected weather patterns, it poses another less obvious but very real threat: climate change … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review investment Protecting pensions in the face of climate change and corporate law January 21, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Molly Cohen — Jan. 21 at 10:25am As climate change threatens to reshape our coastlines and rewrite our expected weather patterns, it poses another less obvious but very real threat: climate change may … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review interstate air pollution Becoming Good Neighbors After EME Homer Generation, L.P. v. EPA April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Jeremy Feigenbaum Cite as: Jeremy Feigenbaum, Becoming Good Neighbors After EME Homer Generation, L.P. v. EPA, 38 Harv Envtl. L. Rev. 259 (2014). [btn link=”http://harvardelr.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/Feigenbaum_Print1.pdf” color=”forestGreen” size=”size-l”]View Full Article (PDF)[/btn] … [Read … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review indigenous communities Pebble Mine and EPA’s Veto Authority Under the Clean Water Act October 7, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Cecilia Segal -— October 7 at 9:50 a.m. Since 2011, the Pebble Limited Partnership (“PLP”) has been attempting to build a large-scale copper and gold mine in the Bristol Bay … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Inara Scott Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Adapting Public Utility Commissions to Meet Twenty-First Century Climate Challenges August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Inara Scott Climate change and efforts to address it have put the electric utility system under increasing pressure to adapt and evolve. Key to the success of … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review human rights Responses to Climate Migration May 14, 2013 by wpengine By Katrina M. Wyman In recent years there have been suggestions that climate change might generate 200 million or more migrants by 2050. In response to these suggestions, and concerns that existing law and policy will be inadequate to deal … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review health and safety standards Toxics & Trade: How TTIP Could Affect TSCA Reform September 11, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Meg Holden — Sept. 11, 2013 at 7:20am Members of Congress have recently renewed efforts to reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). In April 2013, Senator David Vitter and the … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review hazardous waste A “Blunt Withdrawal”? Bars on Citizen Suits for Toxic Site Cleanup August 8, 2013 by wpengine By Margot J. Pollans Throughout the history of federal statutory environmental law, citizen suits have played a key role in enforcement. Through statutory interpretation, however, courts have narrowed the circumstances under which citizens … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review hazardous air pollutants A New Cost of Cost-Benefit Analysis? November 7, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Gabriel Daly — Nov. 7, 2013 at 12:10pm If an agency uses cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to inform its decision-making, what costs and what benefits should it consider? A case currently before the D.C. Circuit, White Stallion … Read more