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Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 50.3

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

Articles Making Climate Pledges Stick: A Private Ordering Mechanism for Climate Commitments, by Oren Perez & Michal P. Vandenbergh Just Regulation: Improving Distributional Analysis in Agency Rulemaking, by Richard L. Revesz & Burçin Ünel The Exclusion of Environmental Justice and Race in Environmental Law Casebooks, by Helia Bidad Climate Change ...

Making Climate Pledges Stick: A Private Ordering Mechanism for Climate Commitments

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

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 ...

Just Regulation: Improving Distributional Analysis in Agency Rulemaking

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

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 Exclusion of Environmental Justice and Race in Environmental Law Casebooks

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

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 ...

Climate Change and the Clean Air Act of 1970 Part I: the Scientific Basis

Malia Libby

August 21st 2024

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.

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