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Jim Crow and the Fossil Fuel Industry

The fossil fuel industry has yet to escape its discriminatory past.

This being Black History Month, I thought it would be worthwhile looking at the fossil fuel industry’s racial history. Given the historic concentration of the oil and coal industries in the South, it is no surprise to find that these industries have also been deeply entangled with Jim Crow and its legacy of discrimination. Oil …

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It’s just a start, necessary and long overdue

A February report shows green NGOs are adding diversity, but still have a long way to go

The callous killing of George Floyd by a white police officer; the shooting of Breonna Taylor in her bed by police executing a no-knock warrant; the pursuit and murder of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery by white vigilantes; a white woman calling police to intimidate black birder Christian Cooper, who asked her to follow Central Park …

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George Kennan and the Environment: With Friends Like These…

One Cannot Divorce His Environmentalism From His Racism

Last year, I read John Lewis Gaddis’ magisterial biography of George F. Kennan, one of the prime architects of American Cold War policy and a distinguished foreign policy intellectual. I was surprised — and not a little pleased — to learn from that book that Kennan was something of a pioneering environmentalist, thinking about these issues …

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The fossil fuel industry has yet to escape its discriminatory past.

A February report shows green NGOs are adding diversity, but still have a long way to go

One Cannot Divorce His Environmentalism From His Racism

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Extended producer responsibility law will reduce single-use waste and shift responsibility to industry

Yesterday’s decision leaves open a powerful regulatory tool.

When “All-encompassing” Isn’t

The bad and the good

The ruling in West Virginia v. EPA was about as good as we could expect given the makeup of the Court.

How can the government account for benefits that it can’t measure?

It’s complicated. But probably not.

Examining whether granting legal rights to nature could make a difference in how courts understand environmental law

Last week’s D.C. Circuit cases illustrate why environmental lawyers need to understand FERC.

The ruling in West Virginia v. EPA was about as good as we could expect given the makeup of the Court.

How “horizontal federalism” can help us understand federal power over the public lands

The bad and the good

A California court just ruled that bumblebees are fish. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.

When “All-encompassing” Isn’t

Whether to consider harms to foreign countries and future generations is controversial. So is how much weight to give harm to the poor.

Yesterday’s decision leaves open a powerful regulatory tool.

What’s Happening in the World’s Second Largest Country?

Extended producer responsibility law will reduce single-use waste and shift responsibility to industry

A New UCLA Report for Chinese Regulators and Researchers