State public utility commissions are at the forefront of the clean-energy transition. These state agencies, which have jurisdiction over energy...
This report identifies transportation-efficient, healthy, high-opportunity areas for housing development. Adding both market-rate and below-market...
The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law filed this amicus brief on behalf of San Bernardino...
California faces a dire housing crisis. California’s land-use regulatory system remains a key driver of this crisis. State law grants local...
It is commonly assumed that local land use regulations—and especially single-family and other restrictive zoning classifications—limit housing supply...
This casebook emphasizes environmental policy, as well as the structure and details of the federal environmental statutes. It focuses students’...
On Aug. 14, a Montana district court released a groundbreaking decision for climate change activists. In Held v. Montana, the court announced that...
This article discusses the links between climate and debt sustainability by focusing on how climate mitigation and adaptation are paid for, and who...
Environmentalists are frustrated that President Joe Biden agreed to greenlight the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, as part of the...
San Francisco’s planning practice and process problems spring from local law that applies discretionary review to any permit and offers repeated...
On May 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court dropped an absolute bombshell with its ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. Early assessments...
The Supreme Court’s new term begins on the first Monday of October. But before delving into the most important environmental case yet to be heard, it...
Environmental justice is rooted in an understanding that people of color and low-income communities are more likely than the population at large to...
Public nuisance has lived many lives. A centuries-old doctrine defined as an unreasonable interference with a right common to the public, it is...
This chapter first explains how the federal Clean Water Act is linked with the implementation of other major environmental laws in the United States...