Harvard Environmental Law Review Supreme Court Exploring the EPA’s New Power Plant Regulations with Professor Jody Freeman and Professor Richard Lazarus October 14, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Samantha Caravello -— October 14 at 12:11 p.m. [Update: a video of Professor Freeman and Professor Lazarus’s talks at the Harvard University Center for the Environment … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review subsidies The uncertain future of Farm Bill conservation programs September 17, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Margaret Wilson Reis — Sept. 17, 2013 at 10:30am On September 30, 2013, the one-year extension of the 2008 Farm Bill will expire. Congress appears unlikely to pass another. If Congress does not, the country stands … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review subsidiarity principle Subsidiarity in European Environmental Law: A Competence Allocation Approach August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Josephine van Zeben Since the 1970s, the influence of the European Union in the area of environmental law and policy has steadily expanded, even though environmental policy continues to be a shared competence between … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review stormwater runoff 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 climate … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review stormwater Parks!: Making the world better one municipal sewage system at a time August 6, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Alec Harris — Aug. 6, 2013 at 11:19am Municipal sewage cases are hot these days at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Enforcement Section. Across the country, DOJ … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review statutory interpretation 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 state law In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” August 1, 2012 by wpengine By Brendan Selby This Comment discusses the ongoing litigation arising from the oil spill around the Deepwater Horizon rig. In particular, it analyzed the causation standard for claims for pure economic loss against the … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review state law Wallach v. Town of Dryden and Local Control of Hydraulic Fracturing November 20, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Carter Hall—November 20, 2014 at 11:03 a.m. On June 30 of this year the Court of Appeals of New York issued its final ruling in Wallach v. Town of Dryden, … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review state common law preemption Bell v. Cheswick Generating Station August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Samantha Caravello Cite as: Samantha Caravello, Bell v. Cheswick Generating Station, 38 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 465 (2014) [btn link=”http://harvardelr.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/Caravello.pdf” color=”forestGreen” size=”size-l”]View Full Article (PDF)[/btn] … [Read more…] about Bell v. Cheswick Generating Station Primary … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review standing The Endangered Species Act’s Fall From Grace in the Supreme Court August 1, 2012 by wpengine By J.B. Ruhl Thirty-five years ago, the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) had as auspicious a debut in the U.S. Supreme Court as any statute could hope for. In Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, a … Read more