Harvard Environmental Law Review environmental regulation Ten Ways States Can Combat Ocean Acidification (and Why They Should) May 14, 2013 by wpengine By Ryan P. Kelly and Margaret R. Caldwell The ocean is becoming more acidic worldwide as a result of increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (“CO2”) and other pollutants. This fundamental change is … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review environmental regulation Pebble Mine and EPA’s Veto Authority Under the Clean Water Act October 7, 2014 by Harvard Law Development By Cecilia Segal -— October 7 at 9:50 a.m. Since 2011, the Pebble Limited Partnership (“PLP”) has been attempting to build a large-scale copper and gold mine in the Bristol Bay … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review environmental regulation The Logic of Sue and Settle May 6, 2015 by Harvard Law Development By Daniel Carpenter-Gold—May 6 at 5:46 p.m. Courtney McVean and Justin Pidot’s article, Environmental Settlements and Administrative Law, appearing in Volume 39.1 of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, addresses the practice of federal agencies settling with … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review environmental project financing Carbon Offsets are a Bridge Too Far in the Tradable Property Rights Revolution August 1, 2012 by wpengine By Tyler McNish Tradable property rights-based carbon offsets are widely used as a policy tool for combating the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. However, academics, non-governmental organizations, and … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review environmental policy American Natures: The Shape of Conflict in Environmental Law April 10, 2012 by wpengine By Jedediah Purdy There is a firestorm of political and cultural conflict around environmental issues, including, but running well beyond, climate change. Legal scholarship is in a bad position to make sense of this conflict … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review environmental policy 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
Harvard Environmental Law Review environmental enforcement Prosecutorial Discretion and Environmental Crime April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By David M. Uhlmann Prosecutorial discretion exists throughout the criminal justice system but plays a particularly significant role for environmental crime. Congress made few distinctions under the environmental laws between acts that could result in criminal, civil, or administrative … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review energy regulation FERC and the future of energy efficiency August 21, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Kelsey Bagot — Aug. 21, 2013 at 5:10pm With U.S. climate-change bills and international climate talks repeatedly facing defeat, one of the main ways for the United States to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions could … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review energy regulation 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 energy permitting The Uncertain Future of the Northern Pass December 3, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Ted Hamilton — Dec. 3, 2013 at 12:11pm With the recent announcements that the Vermont Nuclear Power Station will go off-line next year and that Brayton Point, the region’s large coal plant, is ceasing operations by … Read more