Submissions are now closed for Volume 45, Issue 2, our symposium issue on environmental justice. We look forward to publishing our symposium issue later this year. … [Read more...] about 2021 Print Symposium: Environmental Justice – submissions closed
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2021 Print Symposium: Environmental Justice – accepting submissions
Our Spring 2021 issue will be a Symposium on Environmental Justice. We welcome submissions that comment on, for example, the impact of environmental law—from climate change to toxics to consultation—in marginalized communities, the role whiteness has played in the development of environmental law and natural spaces, and “environmental justice” as a legal and political concept. … [Read more...] about 2021 Print Symposium: Environmental Justice – accepting submissions
2017 Symposium: Resolving the Inherent Uncertainty of Carbon Taxes
Carbon taxes are a critical regulatory mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A carbon tax directly sets a price on emissions, either as an output tax on producers of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum products, and natural gas) or a tax on the purchase of fossil fuels. Such a tax makes the carbon price certain, but the total emissions that ultimately result from the … [Read more...] about 2017 Symposium: Resolving the Inherent Uncertainty of Carbon Taxes
2016 Symposium: FERC v. EPSA
In Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Electric Power Supply Ass’n, the Supreme Court upheld FERC's authority over "demand response"—bids of reductions in electricity consumption into wholesale markets—under the Federal Power Act, and held that FERC’s decision to compensate demand response providers at the same rate as electric power generators was neither arbitrary nor … [Read more...] about 2016 Symposium: FERC v. EPSA