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Lily Cohen* View pdf here Introduction Offshore wind has the potential to help the United States transition away from fossil fuels, and yet, the United States has only built two small offshore wind farms.[1] Despite efforts to get large-scale projects approved through the federal system beginning in 2001,[2] the first project was not approved until twenty years later … [Read more...] about Offshore Wind Energy and the Potential of State-Led Development

K.K. DuVivier[*] & Tara Righetti[†]  View PDF here Abstract Energy companies are making billions of dollars in bids and investments to tie up development rights for wind energy and kick start commercial-scale carbon removal projects.[1] Embracing these new technologies and creating pathways for their expedient development on federal lands is critical to addressing … [Read more...] about Changing Paradigms for a Low-Carbon World

Tori Molyneaux* View PDF here Introduction In the summer of 2017, the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico—an area with such low dissolved oxygen that it cannot sustain most aquatic life[1]—hit its peak recorded size of 8,776 square miles, the size of New Jersey.[2] Just two years later, unprecedented rainfall flooded the Midwest, causing billions of dollars in damage to … [Read more...] about Combating Nutrient Pollution and Flooding with TMDLs in the Mississippi River Watershed

Alexander Khan[*] View PDF here Introduction Since its passage in 1973, the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”)[1] has remained the subject of significant controversy. Those in favor of conservation claim, among other things, that its listing procedures are too cumbersome, resulting in major delays between proposal and listing, and that its substantive provisions do not go far … [Read more...] about Western Water Conflicts and the Sleeping Giant of the ESA

by: Vanessa Daza Castillo View pdf here Introduction County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund[1] is being vaunted as “the Clean Water Act case of the century”[2] and “the Court’s most consequential environmental law decision of 2020.”[3] A ruling widely celebrated among environmentalists, County of Maui resolved conflicting approaches to whether section 402 of the Clean … [Read more...] about Win or Hidden Hurdle?: A Critical Analysis of County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (2020)