“From Frisbees to Flatulence”: Regulating Greenhouse Gases from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Under the Clean Air Act
The grave threat of global climate change calls for immediate political action to mitigate climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the largest emitting sectors, including the agricultural sector. Crop and livestock production have been largely disregarded as a source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United …
Read MoreResisting Deregulation: How Progressive States Can Limit the Impact of EPA’s Deregulatory Efforts
I. Introduction These are dark times for those who care about our environment. In the pollution-control context, we have long been accustomed to the idea that, in general, our environmental laws get stricter over time; or at the very worst, that they would at least stay the same. In the …
Read MoreSowing the Seeds of Controversy: What the Dicamba Debacle Reveals About the Modern Pesticide Registration Process and Why the EPA Must Act
The American farmer has long been the worldwide leader in agricultural management practices leading to increased yields. Innovation in agriculture, like any other industry, is a vital component to sustaining progress and viability in future seasons. The United States relies upon formulations of pesticides and herbicides as a method of …
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Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy—economic development and maintenance of social stability—as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern …
Read MoreLinking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
The Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success—a broad base of participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved—adequate collective ambition of the individual nationally determined …
Read MoreNo Fracking Way: An Empirical Investigation Of Local Shale Development Bans In New York
Across the United States, local governments and states have adopted measures to restrict shale development that uses high-volume hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling (collectively, fracking) within their borders, hindering a national energy policy that relies on continued access to natural gas trapped within shale formations. This Article takes an empirical …
Read MoreVeto-ing the Veto?: Limited Options Remain under Clean Water Act Section 404(c) for EPA to Allow Development of the Pebble Deposit
On July 21, 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took its first step under Clean Water Act (CWA) § 404(c) to protect the pristine Bristol Bay watershed in southwestern Alaska. It proposed to restrict the use of certain waters in the watershed for the disposal of dredged or …
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