The world is currently addicted to its main energy source – oil. The oil demand resulted in the inception of deep and ultra-deep offshore oil exploitation, an inherently dangerous activity. Following an introduction, this article looks at the marine pollution from offshore operations. It also...

Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law and policy today. This is both because of the critical role that electricity plays in modern society, acting as economic lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in...

By most accounts, the December 2012 Doha Round negotiations achieved little. The continued failure of member governments to reach consensus increases the risk of a catastrophic rise in global emissions. The current impasse is due in no small measure to the expressed concern of the United States...

This amicus brief was filed in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Electric Power Supply Association energy law demand response case (and companion case brought by EnerNOC and others), which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear in fall 2015. It was co-authored by Joel Eisen (University of...

On September 30, 2016, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report entitled "Environmental Justice: Examining the Environmental Protection Agency's Compliance and Enforcement of Title VI and Executive Order 12,898." This Dissenting Statement, written by Commissioner Gail Heriot, was...

This paper is the table of contents and introduction to Royal C. Gardner, Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics (Island Press 2011). The book is an accessible guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these...

Agency decision-making regarding the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment, which has the potential to affect the environment and human health, must be consistent with the principles of sustainable development. This requires adherence to the principles of...

Nearly every U.S. state has environmental provisions in its constitution. These provisions cover a wide range of issues concerning the manner in which the environment and natural resources are to be governed (e.g., public funding, eminent domain, public trust, access to water, legislative...

Future U.S. legislation to curb the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) seems likely to include enforcement provisions and to give the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and individual U.S. states significant roles in enforcing its provisions. Following an overview of U.S. environmental...