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Sea-Level Change Science for Decisionmakers

Among the many detrimental impacts from climate change, sea-level rise is one of the most damaging, costly, and devastating. Sea-level change poses particular challenges for coastal communities, and is becoming more prevalent in environmental law. Existing scientific literature about how sea-level change works can often be inaccessible to the people that need it. In addition, each coastal community experiences a unique combination of global, regional, and local factors that define sea-level change.

Coastal Migration With Dignity: Safeguards for Vulnerable Communities

Sea-level rise is a common denominator that prompts two related but distinct types of coastal migration: (1) wealthy coastal communities that retreat inland to ensure their physical and economic security while encroaching on the neighborhoods of existing vulnerable communities; and (2) vulnerable Native Alaskan communities that relocate inland to ensure their survival while striving to retain their cultural identity.

Climate Migration as Climate Resilience: A Case Study of Orlando, Florida

As the United States and the global community figure out how to address climate migration, local governments can and have already been preparing for it. Planning for climate migrants is a part of climate resilience. This Comment calls on local governments, community groups, and individuals to make a stand for how their communities will address climate change, focusing on climate migration. Local governments have tremendous power when it comes to future development.

Schaffner v. Monsanto Corp.

The Third Circuit reversed a ruling that held FIFRA did not preempt state-law tort duties to include a cancer warning on a weedkiller label. A landscaper had argued the agrochemicals company that produces the weedkiller violated Pennsylvania law by omitting the cancer warning from its label. The app...

Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation v. Shea

A district court granted summary judgment for conservation groups in a challenge to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS') recent update to a program concerning the use of pesticides to suppress grasshopper and cricket outbreaks. The groups argued APHIS' 2019 EIS and five state-le...

Chemours Co. FC, LLC v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Third Circuit dismissed for lack of jurisdiction a chemical company's petition to review EPA's health advisory for HFPO-DA, a chemical found in drinking water. The company argued the advisory violated both the procedural and substantive requirements of the APA and the nondelegation doctrine. The...