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Volume 47, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

EVs as EJ?
Lisa Benjamin

The Scalia Court: Environmental Law’s Wrecking Crew within the Supreme Court
Richard J. Lazarus

Unreasonable Risk: The Failure to Ban Asbestos and The Future of Toxic Substances Regulation
Rachel Rothschild

From Comprehensive Liability to Climate Liability: The Case for a Climate Adaptation Resilience and Liability Act
Anthony Moffa

Case Comment

Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County v. Suncor Energy (USA Inc.): A Future for Climate Litigation?
Logan Campbell

Volume 47, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

Plastics and the Limits of U.S. Environmental Law
Robert W. Adler & Carina E. Wells

Water Rights Exactions
Karrigan Bork

When does “Leviathan” Innovate? A Legal Theory of Clean Technological Change at Government-Owned Electric Utilities
Arjuna Dibley

Pipelines and Politics
Alison Gocke

Student Notes

The Role of Environmental Law in Addressing the Violent Effects of Resource Extraction on Native Women
Lily Cohen

An Environmental Justice Analysis of the Exclusion of Farmworkers from the National Labor Relations Act
Luca Greco

Volume 46, Issue 2

Staff and Front Matter

Articles

Forging Complete Justice: Equitable Relief in Environmental Enforcement
Sara A. Colangelo

Judicial Review of Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Change Lawsuits: Deferential and Nondeferential Evaluation of Agency Factual and Policy Determinations
Daniel Kim, Robert L. Glicksman & Keziah Groth-Tuft

Inholdings
Kellen Zale

A Unifying Theory of Subsurface Property Rights
Joseph A. Schremmer

Student Note

Equity and the Environment: Proposing a Flexible Approach to Stays Pending Appeal
Evan Wiese

Volume 46, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

FDA as Food System Steward
Margot J. Pollans & Matthew F. Watson

The Justice from Monsanto: The Environmental Life and Law of Clarence Thomas
Scott W. Stern

Adaptive Management and NEPA: How to Reconcile Predictive Assessment in the Face of Uncertainty with Natural Resource Management Flexibility and Success
Robert L. Glicksman & Jarryd Page

The Climate Emergency and Solar Geoengineering
Charles R. Corbett

Student Note

FOIA Disclosure and the Supreme Court
Adira Levine

Case Comment

Florida v. Georgia (2021) Leaves Equitable Apportionment a Dripping Faucet for Downstream States
Caroline Jaschke

Volume 45, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Symposium

A Foreword from the Harvard Environmental Law Review Staff, Volume 45

Introduction: Environmental Justice—Once a Footnote, Now a Headline
Dr. Robert D. Bullard

Indian Country Post-McGirt: Implications for Traditional Energy Development and Beyond
Elizabeth Kronk Warner and Heather Tanana

Practicing on Uneven Ground: Raising Environmental Justice Claims Under Race Neutral Laws
Brenda Mallory and David Neal

Environmental Indifference
Anthony Moffa

Pipeline Struggles: Case Studies in Ground Up Lawyering
Marianne Engelman Lado and Kenneth Rumelt

Black Urban Ecologies and Structural Extermination
Etienne C. Toussaint

Case Comment

Wrinkling Citizen Suits: California v. EPA (9th Cir. 2020) and Clean Air Act Underenforcement
Lia Cattaneo

Unhappy Trails: Leasing Authority and the Trails Act, U.S. Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association (2020)
Lindsay Williams

Volume 45, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

Ending the Interminable Gap in Indian Country Water Quality Protection
James M. Grijalva

Nature’s Personhood and Property’s Virtues
Laura Spitz and Eduardo M. Penalver

Migrants Can Make International Law
Ama Ruth Francis

Protecting Plants Under the Existing Endangered Species Act
Katie Young and Karrigan Bork

Case Comments

State Courts Decide States Torts: Judicial Federalism & The Costs of Climate Change: A Comment on City of Oakland v. BP PLC (9th Cir. 2020)
Noah Star

Not a Box to be Checked: Environmental Justice and Friends of Buckingham v. State Air Pollution Control Board (4th Cir. 2020)
Regina Paparo

Volume 44, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

On Environmental Law, Climate Change, & National Security Law
Mark Patrick Nevitt

Species Conservation & Recovery Through Adequate Regulatory Mechanisms
Sandra B. Zellmer, Samuel J. Panarella, & Oliver Finn Wood

Risk Assessment & Cost Contamination
Natalie Jacewicz

Transboundary Waters
Annie Brett

Student Notes

U.S. Disaster Displacement in the Era of Climate Change: Discrimination & Consultation Under the Stafford Act
Hannah Perls

Climate-Driven Fishery Shifts: Framing the Problem & Proposing Solutions for Shifts Across Shared Borders
Cayla Calderwood

Case Comment

Defending Science & Collaborative Conservation: Sage-Grouse & Western Watersheds Project v. Schneider (D. Idaho 2019)
Peter O. Daniels

Volume 44, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

Fuel Economy 2.0
Michael Greenstone, Cass R. Sunstein & Sam Ori

Managing the Future of the Electricity Grid: Modernizing Rate Design
Richard L. Revesz & Burcin Unel

Remedial Payments in Agency Enforcement
Seema Kakade

A “Sense of Equity” in Environmental Justice Litigation
Jeff Todd

Student Note

The Takings Project Revisited: A Critical Analysis of This Expanding Threat to Environmental Law
James Pollack

Case Comments

Bear Gulch Solar, LLC v. Montana Public Service Commission: State Commissions and the Future of the PURPA Mandatory Purchase Requirement
Allison M. Kolberg

Tugaw Ranches, LLC v. U.S. Department of the Interior: New Scrutiny of the Congressional Review Act in a Changing Political Landscape
Sarah Douglas

Volume 43, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

President Trump’s War on Regulatory Science
Albert C. Lin

Clean Energy Justice: Charting an Emerging Agenda
Shelley Welton & Joel Eisen

The Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act of 2016: Cancer, Industry Pressure, and a Proactive Approach
Valerie J. Watnick

Rethinking Public Land Use Planning
Mark Squillace

Student Notes

Juliana and the Political Generativity of Climate Litigation
Nathaniel Levy

Rigorous and Relevant: Applying Lessons from the History of IPCC Special Reports to the Post-Paris Agreement World
Graham Provost

Case Comment

Formalism, Functionalism, and Federalism: The Practical Import of Electric Power Supply Association v. STAR and Coalition for Competitive Electricity v. Zibelman for State Clean Energy Support Policies
Ashwini Bharatkumar

Volume 43, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

The Trump Administration and Lessons Not Learned from Prior National Monument Modifications
John C. Ruple

Expropriating Habitat
Karen Bradshaw

Sociopolitical Feedbacks and Climate Change
Peter Howard and Michael A. Livermore

Capturing the Regulatory Agenda: An Empirical Study of Agency Responsiveness to Rulemaking Petitions
Daniel E. Walters

Case Comment

Humane Society of the United States v. Zinke (D.C. Cir. 2017): Shifting Baselines in the Endangered Species Act
Frank Sturges

Volume 42, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

The Bottom-Up Alternative: The Mitigation Potential of Private Climate Governance After the Paris Agreement
Maria L. Banda

Disclaiming Property
Michael Pappas

A Historical Reassessment of Congress’s “Power to Dispose of’ the Public Lands
Jeffrey Schmitt

Student Note

Ecofeminism as Responsible Governance: Analyzing the Mercury
Regulations as a Case Study
Joshua Lee

Case Comment

Bearing the Burden: Environmental Injustice in the Protection of the Polar Bear Alaska Oil & Gas Ass’n v. Jewell (9th Cir. 2016)
Sarah E. Mackie

Volume 42, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

Federal Lands and Fossil Fuels: Maximizing Social Welfare in Federal Energy Leasing
Jayni Foley Hein

Toward a National Conservation Network Act: Transforming Landscape Conservation on the Public Lands into Law
Robert B. Keiter

Managing the Future of the Electricity Grid: Energy Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Richard L. Revesz & Burcin Unel

Managing the Future of the Electricity Grid: Energy Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Kalyani Robbins

Changing Climate Change, 2009-2016
Cass R. Sunstein

Case Comments

Murr v. Wisconsin: A Victory for “Fairness and Justice” in the Regulatory Takings Denominator Analysis
Elisabeth H. Carter

Atay v. County of Maui
James Pollack

Volume 41, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Remarks

Foreword
Gina McCarthy & Janet McCabe

Articles

The Uncomfortable Convergence of Energy and Environmental Law
Jody Freeman

Reconstituting the Federalism Battle in Energy Transportation
Alexandra B. Klass & Jim Rossi

Contaminated Childhood: How the United States Failed to Prevent the Chronic Lead Poisoning of Low-Income Children and Communities of Color
Emily A. Benfer

Student Note

Extraterritoriality and the Electric Grid: North Dakota v. Heydinger, a Case Study for State Energy Regulation
Tessa Gellerson

Volume 41, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

Managing the Future of the Electricity Grid: Distributed Generation and Net Metering
Richard L. Revesz and Burcin Unel

Downstream and Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Proper Scope of NEPA Review
Michael Burger & Jessica Wentz

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Arbitrariness Review
Cass R. Sunstein

Preventing Industrial Disasters in a Time of Climate Change: A Call for Financial Assurance Mandates
Zachary C.M. Arnold

Student Note

Constitutional Challenges and Regulatory Opportunities for State Climate Policy Innovation
Felix Mormann

Case Comment

Defenders of Wildlife v. Jewell (D. Mont. 2016)
Claire M. Horan

Volume 40, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Remarks

The Enduring Nature of the Chevron Doctrine
John C. Cruden and Matthew R. Oakes

Articles

Settling for Natural Resource Damages
Karen Bradshaw

Interstate Water Rights: Take No Drop For Granted
Amelia I.P. Frenkel

Disaggregating Preemption in Energy Law
Hannah J. Wiseman

Student Note

Reviving the Clean Air Act’s Requirement that States Adequately Fund and Staff Clean Air Programs
Jessica Ranucci

Case Comment

Merrick v. Diageo Americas Supply, Inc.
Nate Bishop

Volume 40, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

Enhancing Conservation Options: An Argument for Statutory Recognition of Options to Purchase Conservation Easements (OPCEs)
Federico Cheever and Jessica Owley

How Cheap Is Corporate Talk? Comparing Companies’ Comments on Regulations with Their Securities Disclosures
James W. Coleman

Taking Costs into Account: Mapping the Boundaries of Judicial and Agency Discretion
Daniel A. Farber

Legislative Exactions and Progressive Property
Timothy M. Mulvaney

Case Comment

Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association and the Future of Seminole Rock
Robin A. Smith

Volume 39, Issue 2

Staff & Front Matter

Articles

Fearful Asymmetry: How the Absence of Public Participation in Section 7 of the ESA Can Make the “Best Available Science” Unavailable for Judicial Review
Travis O. Brandon

Foreign Impacts and Climate Change
Arden Rowell

Making Sense of Extraterritoriality: Why California’s Progressive Global Warming and Animal Welfare Legislation Does Not Violate the Dormant Commerce Clause
Jeffrey M. Schmitt

Non-Transmission Alternatives
Shelley Welton

The International and Domestic Law of Climate Change: A Binding International Agreement Without the Senate or Congress?
David A. Wirth

Case Comment

CTS Corp. v. Waldburger
Michael Barclay

Volume 39, Issue 1

Staff & Front Matter

Symposium

Climate Regulation Under the Clean Air Act in the Wake of Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA: Introduction
Cecilia Segal

Why I Worry About UARG
Jody Freeman

Text in Context: The Fate of Emergent Climate Regulation After UARG and EME Homer
Ann E. Carlson and Megan M. Herzog

The Opinion Assignment Power, Justice Scalia’s Un-Becoming, and UARG’s Unanticipated Cloud over the Clean Air Act
Richard J. Lazarus

UARG—Not a Chef d’Oeuvre of Opinion Writing
Craig N. Oren

Anti-Regulatory Skewing and Political Choice in UARG
William W. Buzbee

But What About Texas? Climate Disruption Regulation in Recalcitrant States
Thomas O. McGarity

Toward a More Rational Environmental Policy
Richard L. Revesz

Articles

Fracking, Federalism, and Private Governance
Amanda C. Leiter

Biodiversity on the Brink: The Role of “Assisted Migration” in Managing Endangered Species Threatened with Rising Seas
Jaclyn Lopez

Environmental Settlements and Administrative Law
Courtney R. McVean and Justin R. Pidot

Student Note

Castles Made of Sand: Public-Interest Litigation and China’s New Environmental Protection Law
Daniel Carpenter-Gold

Case Comments

Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio
Brenden Cline

EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P.: Agencies Can Consider Costs in the Face of Statutory Silence
Ryland Li