Climate Change
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. BP P.L.C.
A federal district court granted the city of Baltimore's motion to remand to state court its climate change case against oil companies. The city alleged it sustained climate change-related injuries from greenhouse gas pollution to which...
Changing the National Flood Insurance Program for a Changing Climate
Congress established the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 1968 to reduce flood damages nationwide and ease the federal government’s financial burden for providing disaster recovery. To achieve this goal, the program was...
Time for a New Age of Enlightenment for U.S. Environmental Law and Policy: Where Do We Go From Here?
The issue of environmental injustice has again come into sharp focus in the wake of the predominantly African-American community in Flint, Michigan, being exposed to lead-contaminated drinking water. To secure environmental justice for...
Determining Climate Responsibility: Government Liability for Hurricane Katrina?
In St. Bernard Parish Government v. United States, Louisiana property owners argued that the U.S. government was liable under takings law for flood damage to their properties caused by Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes....
Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke
The Ninth Circuit reversed in part a district court's summary judgment that upheld FWS' decision not to list the arctic grayling as an endangered or threatened species under the ESA. Environmental groups argued that FWS erred in...
AUSTRALIA TO INVEST $379 MILLION TO PROTECT THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
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