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A California Environmental Court to Adjudicate Climate Change

Climate change creates mitigation and adaptation needs across the country, especially in California, which faces flooding, erosion, fire, and extreme weather. To armor against the rising tide of climate change and its accompanying flood of litigation, California should create a specialized environmental court to adjudicate state climate issues. (read more)

Closing the Ocean Fracking Gap: EPA Leadership Is Needed to Regulate Aging Rigs and Evolving Risks Offshore

This Note explores how fracking has slipped through the cracks in a closely regulated industry. Examining the root of the problem, this Note outlines how we might design an administrative apparatus to address emerging environmental harms in the context of aging oil and gas infrastructure. (read more)

Protecting Species and Timber Communities from Extinction: A Case Study on Spotted Owls, Logging, and Cooperative Management in Western Lane County, Oregon

This Note uses western Lane County as a case study to diagnose sticking points in conservation under the ESA and prescribe characteristics of management strategies more likely to sustain both resource extraction-dependent communities and populations of listed specie (read more)

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Racism in the Water: Access for All in Outdoor Recreation

Internet Editor

September 28th 2023

This Article seeks to answer the following questions: What does the academic literature say about POC access to and use of blue space? What role, if any, does systemic racism and inequality play in creating barriers to access? Most historical accounts of any water-race nexus focused on the Black experience, ...

The Federal Reserve’s Responsibilities in a Warming World: A Normative Case and Strategic Primer for Fed Action on Climate Change

Internet Editor

September 28th 2023

As this Article argues, then, we cannot achieve our climate goals without tackling fossil fuel financing, and that requires leadership by the Federal Reserve (the Fed)—the U.S. governmental institution that has been given primary responsibility for regulating our financial system. Part I of the Article grapples with the normative questions ...

Keeping All The Lights On: A Roadmap to Affordable, Universal Electricity Service In the Clean Energy Transition

Internet Editor

September 28th 2023

The Article identifies state innovations in four categories that go beyond widely adopted “baseline” policies. They include policies that: establish affordability and access policy goals, provide express legal authority, and require data collection; reduce electricity demand through efficiency and renewable programs targeted to the most vulnerable; make electricity affordable, for ...

Volume 50.1 Front Matter

Linda Gordon

September 28th 2023

Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 50.1 Front Matter

Just Transition Symposium – Panel 4: Black Women Talk

Linda Gordon

September 22nd 2023

This is the culminating panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2022 Annual Symposium entitled “Black Women Talk.” The moderators were Candice Youngblood and Alicia Arrington. Speakers included Savonala “Savi” Horne and Kimberly Leefatt.

2022 Annual Symposium: Panel 3 – Green Economy

Linda Gordon

September 22nd 2023

The third panel of the Annual Symposium was entitled “Green Economy.” The moderator was Dan Farber and speakers included Renee Hatcher and Jose “JB” Tengco.

2022 Annual Symposium: Panel 2 – Government Transition

Linda Gordon

September 22nd 2023

The Second Panel of the Annual Symposium was entitled “Government Transition.” The Moderator was Ted Lamm and speakers included Louise Bedsworth, Kate Gordon, and Alegría De La Cruz.

2022 Annual Symposium: Panel 1 – California Carbon Offsets

Linda Gordon

September 22nd 2023

The first panel of the 2022 Annual Symposium was entitled “California Carbon Offsets.” The moderator was Colin Mickle, and speakers included Danny Cullenward and Neena Mohan.

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