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Category: Environmental Law
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 23, 2012
The LSU Law Center recently announced a new student-edited journal, the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources. Below please see a short description of the journal. You can learn more about the journal by visiting their website. The LSU...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 23, 2012
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Villanova Environmental Law Journal Annual Blank Rome LLP Symposium Feb. 11 Experts Examine New Fuel Economy Standards WHAT: The U.S. Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House recently announced an historic agreement with auto...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 22, 2012
* Does Congress have the authority to approve the Keystone Pipeline despite the Obama administration's disapproval? A new CRS report says yes - under Congressional authority to regulate foreign commerce. * Four Florida counties have decided to join forces to...
Enviro Law Diary - January 22, 2012
California's Central Valley is once again without an approved State Implementation Plan for ozone. On Friday, January 20, the Ninth Circuit held, in Sierra Club v. US EPA, that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capricio
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 18, 2012
Starting next week, a new set of editors will be joining this blog. Their work spans a broad range of environmental law topics, and we think you'll enjoy reading what they have to say. Here's a quick introduction: Deepa Badrinarayana...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 16, 2012
The Natural Resources Law & Policy book that I use challenges the class to consider "what is natural?" before embarking on the course. Is it "natural" to allow the Florida Panther population to genetically bottleneck and die out, or is...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 14, 2012
The White House proposed moving the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration into the Department of the Interior. A new study has offered a possible explanation of why the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster dissipated so quickly. President Obama...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 13, 2012
The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) will host its 41st Annual Conference on Environmental Law this March 22-24 in Salt Lake City. If you have not been before, this is one of, if not the, premier environmental...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 12, 2012
EPA just released a new interactive web-based map showing the locations of major greenhouse gas emitters across the country. It's well worth checking out. You could easily fritter away half an hour playing with it. - Dave Owen
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 12, 2012
One of the things I found daunting at first in the academy was figuring out to get to speak at conferences. I at first assumed that I just had to wait for invitations, and was a little sad when few...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 10, 2012
Greetings from Spain! I am here as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Granada Law School through June. Do you have a sabbatical coming up? Would you like to spend it abroad? The U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program sends about...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 09, 2012
Previously on the blog I posed the question of whether bottling water was such a bad thing after all (see "Environmental Freakonomics: Bottling Water Not So Bad After All?"). Fast Company recently highlighted an infographic presenting some interesting facts addressing...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 08, 2012
- Chinese authorities agreed to release more detailed information on Beijing's air pollution. - Voters in Kivalina, Alaska decided to move their community's school away from the eroding coast. - An Ecuadorian court ratified an $18 billion judgment against Chevron,...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 07, 2012
Previously on the blog I posed the question of whether bottling water was such a bad thing after all (see "Environmental Freakonomics: Bottling Water Not So Bad After All?"). Fast Company recently highlighted an infographic presenting some interesting facts addressing...
Environmental Law Prof Blog - January 05, 2012
As a practitioner, and even in my first years as a professor, I never paid much attention to the Endangered Species Acts prohibition on adverse modification of critical habitat. The ESA was important to my work in practice and then...
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