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Justice Stevens: Architect of Modern Environmental Law Doctrine
Justice Stevens was responsible for key environmental decisions. He emphasized that EPA and Congress, not the courts, were the key policymakers on environmental questions, as against conservatives judges who have tried to implement their own policy views instead.
CONTINUE READINGIndia and Climate Change law and policy event – April 9 at UCLA
Please excuse the shameless promotion, but readers in the LA area may be interested in an all-day symposium on India and Climate Change being held at UCLA Law next Friday. We’re excited to host cutting-edge conversations about India’s domestic climate change work and about how best to engage with India internationally, post-Copenhagen. More information on …
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CONTINUE READINGEnvironment Now Releases Top So Cal Enviro Achievements
After so much bad environmental news, here’s a post that highlights some actual accomplishments just in case you fear they never occur. Environment Now, a Southern California nonprofit group, has released its 6th Annual Top Achivements of the Environmental Community in Southern California. The report includes the top achievements in six environmental areas; Sean Hecht …
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CONTINUE READINGConference Webcast – The Environment and the Constitution
*Webcast is archived for later viewing, if you didn’t catch the live event. On February 26, 2010. 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.webcast of (EST), you can attend the Environmental Protection in the Balance: Citizens, Courts, and the Constitution at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. Today, the most important environmental law and policy disputes are …
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CONTINUE READINGJody Freeman Leaving White House Post
Harvard Law School’s website has this announcement that Jody Freeman will return to the law school next month after serving just over a year as counselor to Energy Czar Carol Browner: http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2010/02/24_freeman.to.return.html
CONTINUE READINGExtreme Events
I spent yesterday at a conference at RFF on managing “tail risks” — the low-probability but extreme events that are on the tail of the probability distribution. Some probability distributions have what are called fat tails, meaning that the extreme events are more likely than you would expect from a normal distribution. One way of …
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CONTINUE READING200,000 Hits on Legal Planet
When we started, we were hoping for 50,000 hits in our first year of operation, and we weren’t at all confident that we could come close to that. Instead, we have now topped 200,000. That’s exactly fifty thousand times as many viewings as the average law review article. Actually, I just made that up, but …
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CONTINUE READINGELQ Volume 36, Number 4 available
The latest issue of Ecology Law Quarterly, Volume 36, Number 4, is now available online. Articles in this issue include: Judson Jaffe, Matthew Ranson & Robert N. Stavins, Linking Tradable Permit Systems: A Key Element of Emerging International Climate Policy Architecture Jonathan Nash, Allocation and Uncertainty: Strategic Responses to Environmental Grandfathering Tim Lindl, Letting Solar …
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CONTINUE READINGA new forest planning rule blog
Sharon Friedman, Director of Strategic Planning for the Rocky Mountain Region, USDA Forest Service, and Martin Nie, Professor of Natural Resource Policy, University of Montana, have launched a blog called A New Century of Forest Planning. It’s intended as a discussion forum for issues around the new forest planning rule, which the Forest Service recently …
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CONTINUE READINGLegal Scholarship on Climate Change
I did a survey of all articles with “climate change” in the title in the past couple of years, and then did a rough breakdown of topics. Although the survey was unscientific, the results were intriguing: Topic Number of Articles Adaptation Biodiversity and public lands 11 Governance 5 Public health 1 Water 6 Economics 9 …
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