The second panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2023 Annual Symposium was entitled “Effects of Climate Change on Rural Legal Work.” The moderators were Sabrina Ashjian and Katalina Hadfield. Speakers included Estella Cisneros, John Meyer, and Kevin Hamilton.

The penultimate session of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2023 Annual Symposium was entitled “Individual Presentations from Speakers on Environmental Law in Rural Communities.” The moderators were Anna Goldberg and Christina Libre. Speakers included Kevin Hamilton, Mary Cromer, and John Meyer.

This is the culminating panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2023 Annual Symposium entitled “Working and Organizing within Rural-Facing Public Interest Work.” The moderators were Anna Goldberg and Christina Libre. Speakers included Tanmay Shula, John Meyer, Mary Cromer, Samantha Ruscavage-Barz, and Estella Cisneros.

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Corporate climate commitments are an important part of the global response to climate change, but critics have warned that many of these pledges constitute empty commitments whose credibility is difficult to assess at best. This Article proposes two new financial instruments that address a core climate and corporate governance concern ...

Taking account of the impacts of government action on historically marginalized and overburdened communities is a core policy goal of the Biden-Harris Administration. In this Article, we seek to understand the shortcomings of current agency practice and outline what agencies can do better.

The practice of environmental law today is increasingly attentive to environmental justice, and interest in centering environmental justice in the practice of environmental law has only grown in more recent generations of environmental law students. This Article represents the first critical environmental law casebook review in three decades and is ...

This Article reviews this history and its role in the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970. This history has important implications for the scope of EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act in light of the Court’s articulation of the major questions doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA.