Harvard Environmental Law Review zoning Fracking, PA: The legal, the political, and the negotiable September 4, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Ben Apple — Sept. 4, 2013 at 12:02pm There’s a battle over fracking in Pennsylvania—but it’s probably not the one you’ve heard about. For years now, the future of Pennsylvania’s fracking development has hung in … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review water Subsidies with Responsibilities: Placing Stewardship and Disclosure Conditions on Government Payments to Large Scale Commodity Crop Operations August 8, 2013 by wpengine By Linda Breggin and D. Bruce Myers Jr. The last century marked a sea change in the way agricultural operations are conducted. This “industrialization” of agriculture has significantly … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review voluntary regulation An Interview with ELR Authors Coglianese & Nash June 16, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Rachel Proctor May — June 16, 2014 at 10:25am In ELR Volume 38.1, published earlier this year, Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash examined the track record of Performance Track, EPA’s flagship voluntary program for companies … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Volume 39.1 Climate Adaptation for Non-Humans: The Role of Assisted Migration April 22, 2015 by Harvard Law Development By Christine Zaleski—April 22 at 5:02 p.m. On January 30, 2015, President Obama again demonstrated his willingness to tackle climate change issues using his executive authority, signing an Executive Order requiring new federal … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review unilateral regulation Unilateral Climate Action and Collective Change: What Can University Divestment Do? June 2, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Daniel Carpenter-Gold — June 2 at 5:40pm This blog post contains the views of the author alone, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Professor Coleman or ELR staff. … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review UARG 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 is … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review TTIP 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 late Senator Frank … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review technology Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization April 1, 2011 by wpengine By Jonathan H. Adler Stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases at double their pre-industrial levels (or lower) will require emission reductions far in excess of what can be achieved at a politically acceptable … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review tax law 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 renewable energy Upholding Clean Energy in Colorado—and Hopefully Beyond November 17, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Samantha Caravello—November 17 at 7:26 a.m. Acting as laboratories for energy policy, some states have been much more effective than the federal government in promoting renewable energy development, often through the enactment of Renewable … Read more