The Environmental Forum

The Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving corporate managers with a murky view of how they should consider climate-related information and without guidance on how best to navigate differing opinions from investors and advocacy organizations.

It is time to organize in fighting diseases that emerge from animals to impact humans and disrupt society. We can prevent zoonotic infections like the COVID-19 virus by drawing on principles of environmental laws protecting nature and limiting contact with wildlife.

Even before the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, environmental law cases have not been about the environment at all, and ecological values have had little currency. Instead issues of administrative procedure, standing, and statutory interpretation drive the key decisions with environmental consequences, and that trend will continue.

Creating an advanced lesson plan necessitates more than listing required reading, but also a prior assay on how core tenets can play out in real-world contexts, requiring in turn understanding the roles of often adversarial social groupings.

With the ascendancy of the Movement for Black Lives, the media and the Twitterverse have duly noticed that racial justice includes environmental justice, and that higher loads of pollution are an overwhelming factor in too many communities of color. But just because the problems are becoming well known doesn’t mean that solutions are obvious. How do we capitalize on heightened public interest in environmental justice to ensure that all people share equally in both the benefits and the burdens of American society?