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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

Harvard Environmental Law Review Reinstating CERCLA as the “Polluter Pays” Statute with the Circuit Court’s Mutually Exclusive Approach January 3, 2018 by By Brianna E. Tibett[i] This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate.  Introduction The purpose of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) is to facilitate the “timely cleanup of … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review Opportunities to Address Climate Change in the Next Farm Bill November 10, 2017 by By Sara Dewey,[1] Liz Hanson,[2] & Claire Horan[3] This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate.  Introduction The Farm Bill affects nearly every aspect of agriculture and forestry in the United States. Therefore, its next reauthorization … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review The Case for Cap-and-Trade: California’s Battle for Market-Based Environmentalism November 3, 2017 by By Theodore McDowell, J.D. 2017, University of Virginia School of Law This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. I. Introduction The California Cap-and-Trade Program (“CAT”) … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review FERC Relicensing and Its Continued Role in Improving Fish Passage at Pacific Northwest Dams October 4, 2017 by By Skylar Sumner, a third-year J.D. student at Lewis & Clark Law School.  This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate.  I. Introduction The history of the American west is inextricably … Read more

Harvard Environmental Law Review 2017 Symposium: Resolving the Inherent Uncertainty of Carbon Taxes June 19, 2017 by Cameron Partovi Carbon taxes are a critical regulatory mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A carbon tax directly sets a price on emissions, either as an output tax on producers of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum products, and natural … Read more