Collaboration and Competition: Antitrust Law Through an Environmental Lens Dana Chen Coordination among firms is traditionally viewed as a violation of antitrust laws, but it can also have benefits for furthering social welfare goals, such as addressing climate change. For example in 2017, a group of over 600 investors launched Climate Action 100+, an… Continue reading Chen – Winter 2025
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Korn – Winter 2025
NOT Blowin’ in the Wind[1] Ben Korn Just under 30 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the wind is blowing.[2] The consistent gusts have attracted the attention of the state’s public energy utility, Dominion Energy, as it builds the largest offshore wind farm in the mid-Atlantic region, comprising 176 turbines.[3] Once completed, the… Continue reading Korn – Winter 2025
Capps- Winter 2025
Wading Into Wetlands: How Sackett v. EPA Unleashed the Threat of Increasing Flood Risk Through Wetland Development Andrew Capps The Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency[1] is the most recent development in the Court’s forty years of judicial wrangling of the meaning of “waters of the United States” in the Clean… Continue reading Capps- Winter 2025
Lewis-Winter 2025
The Decline of the Administrative State and its Potential Effects on Tribal Sovereignty Manuel Lewis* I. Abstract The federal government of the United States, including federal agencies, owes a trust responsibility to Tribes. The contemporary federal administrative state has given greater authority over agency decisions to the federal judiciary while simultaneously reducing government funding for… Continue reading Lewis-Winter 2025
M. Magill – Winter 2025
Reducing Carbon Emissions While Addressing Environmental Concerns in Wisconsin Matthew Magill On December 12, 2015, 195 nations capped the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) with the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, an international treaty designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.[1] The treaty seeks to limit global temperature increases below 2°C above pre-industrial… Continue reading M. Magill – Winter 2025
C. Segarra – Winter 2025
Don’t Fear the Federal Shake-Up, States Can Still Enforce Regulations Curtis Segarra As new federal administrators take the reins over the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), switching up leadership over top oil-producing states like Texas and New Mexico, it’s not clear how federal policing over emissions may change in the near future.[1] For example, Scott Mason… Continue reading C. Segarra – Winter 2025
R. Segal -Winter 2025
Effective and Uncredited: Women and Environmental Actions Riley Segal Public knowledge about changes in environmental legislation is often limited to new policies and the topics they address. Though actors such as the Environmental Protection Agency and movements like environmental justice have become recognizable terms in the legal sphere and everyday life, many of the people… Continue reading R. Segal -Winter 2025
Coyle – Winter 2025
New York’s Congestion Pricing Program Through An Environmental Lens Isabel Coyle According to an inventory prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation accounted for 28 percent of direct greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S in 2022.[1] On January 5, 2025, New York City implemented the “Central Business District Tolling Program,” commonly known as congestion pricing,… Continue reading Coyle – Winter 2025
B. Foster- Winter 2025
Marin Audubon Society and its Potential Impact on the Future of NEPA Benjamin Foster In November 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration. The Court went beyond the scope of the arguments made to hold that the White House Council on Environmental… Continue reading B. Foster- Winter 2025
Magill-Fall 2024
Renewed Energy Politics: An Analysis of Renewable Portfolio Standards in Swing States Matthew Magill During the 2024 United States presidential election, energy policy took on renewed importance as a key issue for voters. The September 10, 2024 presidential debate included an extended exchange over the candidates’ respective positions on energy development in the battleground state… Continue reading Magill-Fall 2024