Harvard Environmental Law Review drilling “Fugitive” natural gas emissions on the run from the law August 13, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Samantha Caravello — Aug. 13, 2013 at 12:52pm Natural gas is being widely lauded as the “bridge fuel” that will allow the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, kick its addiction … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Dolan Revolutionary or Routine? Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By Molly Cohen and Rachel Proctor May Cite as: Molly Cohen and Rachel Proctor May, Revolutionary or Routine? Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, 38 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 245 (2014). [btn … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review Daniel M. Firger 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 … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review corporate law 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 competence allocation 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 Coleman 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. “What … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review climate policy Unilateral Climate Regulation April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By James W. Coleman It is now plain that decades of negotiation toward a binding global climate treaty have failed. Yet, at the same time, many nations are adopting a range of unilateral policies to address climate change. The existing literature … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review climate change 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 market … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review climate change In First Address as EPA Head, Administrator Gina McCarthy Stresses Collaboration and the “Opportunity of Climate Change” August 1, 2013 by hlsjrnldev By Molly Cohen — Aug. 1, 2013 at 7:47am “Let’s talk about [climate change] as the opportunity of a lifetime, because there are too many lifetimes at … Read more
Harvard Environmental Law Review climate change Unilateral Climate Regulation April 8, 2014 by hlsjrnldev By James W. Coleman It is now plain that decades of negotiation toward a binding global climate treaty have failed. Yet, at the same time, many nations are adopting a range of unilateral policies to address climate change. The existing literature … Read more