On Aug. 14, a Montana district court released a groundbreaking decision for climate change activists. In Held v. Montana , the court announced that...

A Supreme Court decision on wetlands might have affected debt ceiling talks on the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Cale Jaffe

Environmentalists are frustrated that President Joe Biden agreed to greenlight the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, as part of the...

A Tale of Two Delegations: Some Reflections on PennEast

Alison Gocke

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...

Measuring Local Policy to Advance Fair Housing and Climate Goals through a Comprehensive Assessment of Land Use Entitlements Study

Moira O'Neill

Eric Biber

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

Sackett v. EPA and the Unraveling of Congress’ Wetlands Protection Law

Cale Jaffe

On May 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court dropped an absolute bombshell with its ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. Early assessments...

Pledge to Keep Listening: The Role of Legal Ethics in Environmental Justice Advocacy

Cale Jaffe

Environmental justice is rooted in an understanding that people of color and low-income communities are more likely than the population at large to...

The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance

Leslie Kendrick

Public nuisance has lived many lives. A centuries-old doctrine defined as an unreasonable interference with a right common to the public, it is...

Ripple Effect: A Look at Sackett v. EPA and the Non‐Water Quality Values that the Clean Water Act Protects

Cale Jaffe

Aspen Ono

This chapter first explains how the federal Clean Water Act is linked with the implementation of other major environmental laws in the United States...

Pipelines and Politics

Alison Gocke

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

Nancy Pelosi Is Blocking Landmark Data Privacy Legislation—for a Good Reason

Danielle K. Citron

Alison Gocke

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

Environmental protection and sovereign debt restructuring

Patrick Bolton

Lee C Buchheit

Beatrice Weder di Mauro

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

Test Publication 1

John J. Doe

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

Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity

Jason S. Johnston

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

Environmental Law Education—Preparing for Environmental Practice

Cale Jaffe

Helen Kang

Hari Osofsky

Roundtable Series for Environmental Law Faculty on the Future of Legal Education ROUNDTABLE Three Questions Addressed by Authors: I. How can new...

Costs, Confusion, and Climate Change

Michael A. Livermore

Justin Gundlach

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...

Small Suburbs, Large Lots: How the Scale of Land-Use Regulation Affects Housing Affordability, Equity, and the Climate

Moira O'Neill

Eric Biber

Giulia Gualco-Nelson

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Housing costs in major coastal metropolitan areas nationwide have skyrocketed, impacting people, the economy, and the environment. Land-use regulation...

Climate-Society Feedback Effects: Be Wary of Unidentified Connections

Michael A. Livermore

Peter Howard

Feedbacks within the climate-economy system are complex. The research analyzing the relationship between human activities and the climate is...

Climate Rationality: From Bias to Balance

Jason S. Johnston

Most environmental statutes passed since 1970 have endorsed a pragmatic or 'precautionary' principle under which the existence of a significant risk...