Implementation Key to Obama's New Project Mitigation Policy
Implementation is key to Obama’s new project environmental mitigation policy.
Implementation is key to Obama’s new project environmental mitigation policy.
Reviewing the Clean Power Plan — and the fate of the Paris Agreement after the courts review rule.
The 2015 ELI Award winner on how the 1965 White House Conference on Natural Beauty set the stage for the environmental and natural resource laws passed in the next quarter century. Politicians involved in the gridlock of the ensuing twenty-five years would do well to learn from the bipartisan conference’s example.
Exercising responsibility for the supply chain and human rights is a positive trend in business.
A group of cases shows that food law is the next great area for environmental litigation.
The dangers of climate change are not usually couched in terms of national security, but awareness of the issue is growing rapidly. What could be more basic to security than a climate conducive for agriculture, abundant water supplies, ecosystem health, industrial production, biodiversity, and human comfort? What could be more threatening than extreme weather events or mass migrations because of rising seas and crop failures? The annual ELI-Miriam Hamilton Keare Policy Forum brought together top experts on the topic.
It’s not the material injected underground to release shale gas — it’s the dangerous fluid and gases that come back to the surface. The lost opportunity to perform a thorough evaluation of the potential adverse health consequences of fracking has hurt the industry.
In a few weeks, the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will convene in Paris to hammer out for the first time an accord that will have binding targets for almost all nations, industrialized and developing alike. We polled some of the leading thinkers and activists involved in the climate change negotiations, asking them what the United States needs to do to realize an agreement that we can live with — one that protects the environment and also wins favor in the Senate and among the American public.
Three different presidents, five different district courts, and three different circuit courts.
A new position and new programs are facilitating cooperation and coordination.