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LAB REPORT Conducting more chemical exposure studies is laudable in theory—and perilous in practice. Stakeholders agree more data are necessary. So why is analysis of new substances so difficult and fraught with legal, regulatory, and commercial challenges?
Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
With SIDEBARs from an industry representative and animal rights scholar
TESTIMONY There is a fertile context now to make significant progress on using international law as a critical tool in making states responsible for the environmental health of individuals within their territories.
George Washington University Law School
With a SIDEBAR from Achinithi C. Vithanage of Pace University
COVER STORY Is judicial activism under a novel doctrine undermining the rule of law and the separation of powers—by placing the courts above Congress and the executive branch, and by implementing conservative judges’ preferences for small government?
Syracuse University, College of Law
With SIDEBARs from two lawyers with questions of their own.
PROFILE Shalanda Baker, who ran President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative at the Energy Department, which funneled billions to disadvantaged communities, says the now disbanded program permanently changed the culture and conversation over race, climate change, and energy policy.
The Environmental Forum
THE DEBATE As activists gird to defend what they deem to be essential conservation and environmental policies and standards, while conservative and business interests expect Trump to eliminate what they deem to be unjustified regulations and to take new approaches, what will be the most salient environmental reform goals over the next four years for Republicans and their allies in the private sector? What will Democrats and environmental activists want to do to ensure continued forward movement?
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Southern Environmental Law Center, Columbia University, Novi Strategies LLC Environment, Beveridge and Diamond P.C., Property and Environment Research Center
EPA Advancing AI Amid Broad and Varied Concerns Over Use
Safety, Institutional Cultures, and Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Rigs
States and Localities Embrace Community Benefits Agreements
Trump Executive Orders Confound Energy Transition Practitioners
NEPA’s Environmental Review Requirements Face Two Big Tests
The Many Fallacies of Trump’s “Energy Dominance” Agenda
Significant Health and Economic Costs Come From Wildfire Smoke
Railroads’ Problems Showed Regulation of Industry Needed
Tracy Mehan on the New Edition of a Professional Classic
Record attendance at Eastern Boot Camp for professionals
See Colleagues’ Job Changes and Honors Recieved
Jordan Diamond Says, “Toujours On Danse”