In the last week of August, the Biden administration finalized protection of 28 million acres of federal land and water in Alaska that is critical for birds, fish, caribou, and the communities that rely on them. That’s an area…
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/ Environmental Law, Indigenous Peoples, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On July 18, 2024, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided that environmental groups were entitled to intervene in a case challenging the lawfulness of a greenhouse gas regulation because the state’s attorneys failed to raise the…
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/ Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
In the 1967 movie “The Graduate,” a family friend famously tells the title character “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it.” Well, those of us engaged in…
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/ Consumer Protection, Environmental Law, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
It is becoming increasingly difficult to practice law without some knowledge of climate change as well as the law related to climate change. Irma Russell, Matt Bogoshian, and I recently published an article making the case that…
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/ Environmental Law, Law Practice Products & Services
This blog posting is derived from an article I recently published in the University of Missouri, Kansas City Law Review at the invitation of our Fellow and friend Irma Russell, to whom I am indebted for much guidance and counsel…
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/ Civil Rights, Environmental Law
Our national climate goals of net zero emissions, renewable energy transition, electrified vehicle fleets, clean steel, green hydrogen, and the rest of the package focus on the ramp-up of clean energy sources and end uses. As…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Transportation
The ACOEL webpage “About Us” states that we are to be “Advocates for environmental law and process for a better environmental future.” Allow me to throw down this gauntlet to Members: What “better environmental future” is the…
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/ Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
The annual release of projections for how long the Social Security trust funds will be able to pay the amounts earned by beneficiaries shows that the gap has grown between what retirees are scheduled to receive and what current…
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/ Environmental Law
For those seasoned rockers, CCR means Creedence Clearwater Revival, but for environmental lawyers, CCR means Coal Combustion Residuals (“CCR”) which is a slurry by-product from the generation of electricity from coal fired power…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
Fifty years ago the Commonwealth of Virginia experienced a human health and environmental crisis when the insecticide Kepone was discovered in the blood of manufacturing workers and in the fish and sediment of the James River at…
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/ Environmental Law, Personal Injury, Toxic Torts
Posted on March 13, 2024 by David G. Mandelbaum I seem to be the ACOEL CERCLA blogger by default. The other environmental practitioners may affect to being far too cool for this practice area, but we all know they secretly read…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), historic legislation that for the first time directly addresses climate change mitigation across multiple sectors, including agriculture. The…
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/ Agriculture, Environmental Law
The Farm Bill is the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. This third of four blogs explains how it can help American agriculture be more resilient and climate-friendly.
Most Federal Farm Bill…
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/ Agriculture, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Whether you celebrated Festivus, Christmas or any real or recently manufactured holiday this past season, as a former upstate New Yorker my thoughts inevitably turn to snow. But sadly, after decades working in the hazardous…
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/ Environmental Law
Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, railroad deregulation, and…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
