Harvard Environmental Law Review regulation Smart Rules for the Smart Grid (HELR Podcast) October 24, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Sachin Desai — Oct. 24, 2013 at 8:18am What makes the Smart Grid “smart”? Of course the technology plays a role. Grid-scale batteries allow renewable energy generators to be more competitive. New smart meters allow homeowners … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review regional government Mapping Fracking: An Analysis of Law, Power, and Regional Distribution in the United States April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Benjamin E. Apple This Note posits a framework with which to analyze U.S. fracking development at local and regional scales. It aims to illuminate the ways in which three … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review RCRA 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 can … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review property law When Perpetual is Not Forever: The Challenge of Changing Conditions, Amendment, and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements April 10, 2012 by wpengine By Jessica E. Jay As the use of perpetual conservation easements to protect private property for the public’s benefit grows in popularity, so grow the challenges associated … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review property 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 profit maximization Protecting pensions in the face of climate change and corporate law January 21, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Molly Cohen — Jan. 21 at 10:25am As climate change threatens to reshape our coastlines and rewrite our expected weather patterns, it poses another less obvious but very real threat: climate change … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review preemption Comment: North Carolina v. Tennessee Valley Authority April 1, 2011 by wpengine By Nigel Barella In North Carolina v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 615 F.3d 291 (4th Cir. 2010), the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the federal Clean Air Act preempted certain, if not all, applications of … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review power generation Toward Greener FERC Regulation of the Power Industry August 12, 2014 by hlsjrnldev August 12, 2014 at 1:30pm America’s electricity industry is at the heart of some of the nation’s and world’s biggest environmental challenges, including climate change. Yet the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), which has regulatory jurisdiction … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review pollution Settling Accounts from the BP Gulf Oil Spill October 29, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Elinor Tarlow — October 29 at 6:22 p.m. More than four years ago, BP’s Macondo well exploded, killing 11 men and spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The surrounding … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Performance Track 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