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
Harvard Environmental Law Review Tangled Up in Procedure: The State and Local Climate Cases After Baltimore and Ford October 8, 2021 by jolinski by: Sean Lyness* View pdf here Introduction Five states and more than sixteen local governments have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies seeking damages related to climate change.[1] A veritable avalanche of … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Building Better Conservation Easements for America the Beautiful September 15, 2021 by jolinski By: King Burnett,[1] John D. Leshy,[2] & Nancy A. McLaughlin[3] Article (PDF): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3925094 Introduction In January 2021, the Biden Administration endorsed the goal of protecting 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030 to conserve biodiversity and … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review From Tropics to Swamp: How County of Maui Muddies the Clean Water Act May 5, 2021 by pdaniels by Lavran Johnson View Full Article (PDF) Introduction County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund,1140 S. Ct. 1462 (2020). the latest in a string of Supreme Court decisions that set the jurisdictional … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review 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. View Full Article (PDF) 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 The Origins of Federal Wildlife Regulation Under the Commerce Clause March 11, 2021 by pdaniels by Kathryn E. Kovacs, Professor, Rutgers Law School, The State University of New Jersey. ©Kathryn E. Kovacs 2021. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. View Full Article (PDF) June 8, 2020, marked … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Flying the Coop: The Trump Administration’s (Mis)Interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act February 11, 2021 by pdaniels By Alex Liguori. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. The original post is available here. View Full Article (PDF) Introduction Any good survey of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws will likely … Read more