By Samantha Caravello—November 17 at 7:26 a.m. Acting as laboratories for energy policy, some states have been much more effective than the federal government in promoting renewable energy development, often through the enactment of Renewable Portfolio Standards (“RPS”). RPSs require electricity-selling companies to generate a minimum percentage of their electricity from … [Read more...] about Upholding Clean Energy in Colorado—and Hopefully Beyond
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Promises and Pitfalls in China’s New Environmental Protection Law
By Daniel Carpenter-Gold—September 14 at 6:30 p.m. To read more on this topic, look for Mr. Carpenter-Gold's student note in the upcoming Volume 39.1 of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Chinese environmental policy has been rapidly modernizing over the past few years, likely in response to highly visible pollution. Among these changes, the Environmental Protection Law … [Read more...] about Promises and Pitfalls in China’s New Environmental Protection Law
It’s Raining Cert Petitions!: Last Term’s Biggest Supreme Court News
By Richard Lazarus -- Sep. 11, 2014 at 9:05 a.m. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2014 issue of The Environmental Forum. The Environmental Law Institute has graciously allowed the Harvard Environmental Law Review Blog to republish the piece. The biggest environmental law news from the Supreme Court last term may well not have been the Court’s rulings … [Read more...] about It’s Raining Cert Petitions!: Last Term’s Biggest Supreme Court News
The Search for Sustainable Legitimacy: Environmental Law and Bureaucracy in China
By Alex L. Wang During China’s 11th five-year plan (2006–10), bureaucrats began to take substantial actions on environmental protection, making major investments in pollution control infrastructure and forcing the shutdown of thousands of outdated facilities and production lines. This was not accomplished through meaningful reform of a notoriously weak environmental law … [Read more...] about The Search for Sustainable Legitimacy: Environmental Law and Bureaucracy in China
Ten Ways States Can Combat Ocean Acidification (and Why They Should)
By Ryan P. Kelly and Margaret R. Caldwell The ocean is becoming more acidic worldwide as a result of increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (“CO2”) and other pollutants. This fundamental change is likely to have substantial ecological and economic consequences globally. In this Article, we provide a toolbox for understanding and addressing the drivers of ocean … [Read more...] about Ten Ways States Can Combat Ocean Acidification (and Why They Should)