by Cole Jermyn This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Introduction The offshore wind power industry in the United States is at an inflection point. Only two projects have been constructed up to this point: the Block Island wind farm off Rhode Island, and the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot project off Virginia. Together, these … [Read more...] about The Winds of Change: Investing in Floating Offshore Wind Development
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The Origins of Federal Wildlife Regulation Under the Commerce Clause
by Kathryn E. Kovacs, Professor, Rutgers Law School, The State University of New Jersey. ©Kathryn E. Kovacs 2021. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. June 8, 2020, marked the eightieth anniversary of the Bald Eagle Protection Act—the first federal statute to rely on the Commerce Clause for the authority to prohibit the taking of … [Read more...] about The Origins of Federal Wildlife Regulation Under the Commerce Clause
Flying the Coop: The Trump Administration’s (Mis)Interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
By Alex Liguori. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. The original post is available here. Introduction Any good survey of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws will likely cover the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, but hardly any would find time for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”). Passed in 1918 to curb exploding commercial trade in … [Read more...] about Flying the Coop: The Trump Administration’s (Mis)Interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Introducing a Voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for the New Plastics Economy
By Hannah Yang This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. The original post is available here. Introduction Ocean plastic pollution is a large-scale problem that stems from multiple points of the plastics life cycle, ranging from design, production, use, disposal, and environmental leakage. Voluntary extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an … [Read more...] about Introducing a Voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for the New Plastics Economy
“A Great Deal of Discretion”: Bostock, Plain Text, and the Future of Climate Jurisprudence
by Grace Weatherall INTRODUCTION Bostock v. Clayton County was marked for a place among landmark Supreme Court jurisprudence as soon as it arrived. The decision protected LGBTQ+ employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, and LGBT activists and allies rightly celebrated it as an affirmation of basic human rights and … [Read more...] about “A Great Deal of Discretion”: Bostock, Plain Text, and the Future of Climate Jurisprudence