Harvard Environmental Law Review cost-benefit analysis It’s Raining Cert Petitions!: Last Term’s Biggest Supreme Court News September 11, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Richard Lazarus — Sep. 11, 2014 at 9:05 a.m. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2014 issue of The Environmental Forum. The Environmental Law Institute has graciously allowed the Harvard … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review consumer behavior Automatically Green November 18, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Caroline Stern — Nov. 18, 2013 at 5:16pm Over the coming months, the ELR blog will be publishing a series of blog posts that preview articles that will appear in the forthcoming Volume 38.1. This blog is the first in that … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review constitutional law Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States August 8, 2013 by wpengine By David Baake The Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause provides that private property shall not be “taken for public use, without just compensation.” For most of American history, the Supreme Court construed this clause narrowly, requiring the … Read more
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 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 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 change legislation A global solution to climate change: the possible impact of Bond v. United States October 1, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Theresa Borden — Oct. 1, 2013 at 3:33pm New legislation to deal with the global problem of climate change may seem politically unrealistic given the current inhospitable environment … Read more