Reclaiming the Land: Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods, and Practices

The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law filed this amicus brief on behalf of San Bernardino...

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...

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey. The case is often associated with a theory of private delegation--that is...

California’s legislature has passed several laws that intervene in local land-use regulation in order to increase desperately needed housing...

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...

This Article documents and seeks to explain a significant shift in how we construct natural gas pipelines in the United States. Natural gas pipelines...

New legislation on Capitol Hill brings us closer than ever to having comprehensive data privacy protection and a civil right to intimate privacy. The...

Contributions to solving the globe’s environmental crisis are properly expected to come from every country to a greater or lesser degree depending on...

This paper, which appeared as Chapter 7 in Johnston, Climate Rationality: From Bias to Balance (2021), explains the economic and energy security...

This paper, which appeared as Chapter 7 in Johnston, Climate Rationality: From Bias to Balance (2021), explains the economic and energy security...

Roundtable Series for Environmental Law Faculty on the Future of Legal Education
ROUNDTABLE Three Questions Addressed by Authors:

In the United States the primary tool to value greenhouse gas emissions reductions in cost-benefit analysis is the social cost of carbon (SCC), which...