Water Pollution is serious problem in the global world. Increasing population, urbanization, environmental degradation, changing agricultural sectors, etc., are some of the factors that are determining the future water demands. The global and regional environmental problems include loss of...

The history of environmental justice litigation in federal, state, and administrative courts illustrates how difficult it is to remedy intersectional harm using a single legal tool. In the United States, there is no federal “environmental justice law” that litigants can wield in court. The...

This article is a study of the then proposed 1971 U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the long history of developing U.S.- Canadian cooperation that preceded it. The article suggests that this experience: (1) offers guidance for the solution of problems that other programs of...

Following the Supreme Court's ruling in British Columbia v. Canadian Forest Products Ltd., it is plain that any claim for environmental loss will have to be based on a coherent theory of damages and methodologies suitable for their assessment. The development of such a theory raises several...

This study was prompted by a desire by many stakeholders to have better data about how CEQA works generally and how CEQA litigation and court decisions affect how CEQA functions. By analyzing all published opinions from 1997 to 2012/1998 to 2013 in which CEQA plaintiffs litigated up to the...

Few issues are more contentious for local communities than industrial pollution. When local industries pollute, lawmakers and regulators must balance two primary concerns: economic prosperity and the environment. The role of political pressure is well-documented in environmental policy. What is...

Environmental protection and economic concerns are not mutually exclusive. This article, written for a symposium on “Environmental Law 4.0: Adaptive and Resilient,” explores some of the issues of economic analysis that might arise as we approach the fourth generation of environmental law. It...

Modern energy and natural resource development has always been, at heart, a global enterprise. Energy companies and developers, by necessity, frequently work in far-flung locations scattered among nations with vastly different legal systems and environmental regulatory systems. If one of their...