MJEAL Blog

When ‘Strict’ Isn’t Enough: Michigan’s Mining Laws and the Copperwood Controversy

Ally O’Neill

Cartographic Deference

Lucinda Widdison

Montana v. Held: Do Green Amendments Truly Promise Environmental Protection?

Eliza Kreske

Leveraging Hot Rocks for a Cooler Planet: Reducing Administrative Barriers to Geothermal Energy Production

Martin Koch

Logged In, Left Behind: Why FERPA Cannot Keep Up with AI in the Classroom

Abigail Clarke

Locked Out of Public Land: The Legal Puzzle of Corner Crossing

Julia Gavilondo

PFAS Regulation Under the Second Trump Administration: Is PFAS Political?

Gabi Mosey

Environmental Destruction in Conflict: Legal Frameworks and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Recovery

Anna Nguyen

A Tale of Two Penalties: Impact of SEC v. Jarkesy on IRS Penalty Litigation

Minnalou Boadu-Bennett

The EPA’s Unfolding Endangerment Finding Rescission Litigation

Coleman Hopkins

How Evolving International Investment Law is Contributing to Climate Change

Aila Herenda

Green Rules in Gray Zones: Domestic Regulation of Environmental Damage in Conflict

Maya Granderson

Proposed Clean Water Act Section 401 Rulemaking: States and Tribes Would Lose More Ability to Protect Environment

Kevin Tahara

The Missing Player in American Energy Expansion: The Arbitrary Fight Against Wind Power

Caitlyn Bell

Thinking Through Lansing’s Downtown Revitalization Efforts Using an Environmental Justice Framework

Claire Hipps

A Case Study in Data Center Development: Minnesota’s Cross-Roads Moment

Sadie Henderson

Rethinking Waste: How Weak Definitions of Beneficial Use Prevent Efficient Allocation of Water in California

Max Cassell

Synthetic Fuel Development in Chile: Evaluating the Regulatory Environmental Framework

Aila Herenda

Rushing Repeal: Why the ‘Good Cause’ Shortcut Could Backfire on Agencies and the Environment

Maya Granderson

A Recent Sixth Circuit Dormant Commerce Ruling and Michigan’s Hybrid Electricity Market

Claire Hipps

Red Tides in Florida: Current Legislation and Litigation Efforts

Anna Nguyen

EPA vs. Industry: Showdown Over PFAs

Kevin Tahara

Un-Permitted Rescission? Permitting Rules & Reliance Interests

Coleman Hopkins

You’ve Got Your Major Questions Mixed Up with My Traditional Judicial Decisionmaking! Or How the Court Learned to Prevent Loan Forgiveness and Further Handcuff the Administrative State

Liam Pembroke

Can the FTC Help Lower Rents?

Brian Hill

Incorporating Carbon Offsets into Agencies’ Sustainability Strategies

Joseph Honeycutt

The Rise of Greenwashing Litigation against Airlines and the Impact of Conscious Consumerism

Giovanni Lavoile

Whales, Monkeys, and a River – the Future of Environmental Standing?

Nate Lyon

Conscious Consumerism, Class Actions, and Carbon Offsets

Rina Zhang

Extended Producer Responsibility in Ontario: A Model for the U.S.?

Wyatt Zimbelman

Transfer of Development Rights in Urban-Rural Settings: A Conservation and Pro-Housing Strategy for Michigan

Jessie Williams

Mifepristone & the FDA Post-Dobbs: States Sue & Potential Preemption

Sara Shapiro

The Role of Electric Vehicles in Michigan

Eric A. Shalloway

The Impact of “Schedule F” on Environmental and Administrative Governance

Arian Rubio

The Supreme Court Case that Threatens to Upend U.S. Labor Law

Priyanka Podugu

Opening the Floodgates: Axon Enterprises v. FTC and the Weakening of Public Power

Keenen McMurray

What’s Going on With Wetlands? The Supreme Court Takes Another Dive into the “Waters of the US”

Sarah Mastrian

The Hexavalent Chromium Spill That Never Happened: Without Disasters, Where Does Environmental Litigation Come From?

Kathleen Ross

E.E.O.C. Targets Artificial Intelligence: Is It Enough?

Ryan Jansen

Creative Municipal Approaches to Lead Pipe Removal: A Pittsburgh Case Study

Noah Hellum

Polluter Pays Principle

Jillian Gordner

The Oil Lease Under the Flower Moon

Anna Benham

The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Camille Avella

Will Michigan Ever Have Clean Drinking Water?

Hannah Allbery

Climate Change Infrastructure: People, Property, and Takings

Ellison Hersch

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Evaluating Legal Foundations, and Discussing Destabilizing Forces

Nathaniel Haviland-Markowitz

A Hundred-Year Storm that Happens Every Five Years: Encouraging Detroit to Fix its Infrastructure and Changing the Climate Liability Standard

Jennifer Meer

Climate Torts Against Big Agriculture

Shanthi Chackalackal

Howling at the Government: The Fight to Get Wolves Back on the Endangered Species List

Taylor Hopkins

Eminent Domain and Ethanol: Farmland Seizures and Carbon Sequestration in Iowa

Ian Klopfenstein

It’s Time for a Carbon Tax

Andrew Zhang

Microplastics: Narrow Statutory Language and Broad Scientific Problems

Allison Goldman

States Challenge the Constitutionality of the American Rescue Plan

Edward Plaut

Agency Delegation to External Parties: An Unexplored Challenge

Benjamin Lehman

Walmart’s Civil Liabilites under the HWCL: A California Case Study

Rita Elfarissi

EV Tax Credits and the Shift Towards Electrification

Kate Meulemans