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• Asking the Hard Questions to Achieve Environmental Justice
• COP26: Lawyers in Critical Role as Focus Shifts to Implementation
• Food waste initiative hosts live cooking demo using 'scraps
• Setting the Record Straight on Justice
• A Professor Speaks on What We Owe

  How should we understand responsibility in the context of the climate crisis? The answer lies in the legal tools already at our disposal

• Climate Trailblazer: EPA leader Carol Browner receives ELI award, honoring life's work to protect public health, environment
• Movers & Shakers
• Holy Grail. Are Green Taxes the Answer to Pollution?
• Shadow Orders Keep Courts in Line
• Challenging the Government

  When it comes to judicial review of administrative action, the scales of justice are heavily weighted on the agency's side. The process could benefit from a more rigorous and transparent approach to building and testing the decisionmaking record

Featured documents

• Holy Grail. Are Green Taxes the Answer to Pollution?
• Setting the Record Straight on Justice
• Momentum Is Surging for Green Hydrogen in Clean Energy Future
• Asking the Hard Questions to Achieve Environmental Justice
• Pushing the Legal Limits

  The Chesapeake Bay restoration faces big challenges on multiple fronts. Some of the thoughtful response measures are stretching the Clean Water Act creatively. The results provide lessons for complex environmental problems...

• A Toxic Legacy

  Most of a 33-acre property in a historically Black neighborhood in rural Virginia is cleared of contaminants caused by a defunct chemical company and is ready for use. Overcoming the stigma associated with a Superfund site is quite another...

• Challenging the Government

  When it comes to judicial review of administrative action, the scales of justice are heavily weighted on the agency's side. The process could benefit from a more rigorous and transparent approach to building and testing the decisionmaking...

• When the System Fosters Racial Injustice

  Several causes contribute to race-based disparities in environmental and public health harms. One of these is the role of the regulatory system in implementing and enforcing environmental policies with discriminatory...

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• The Water Poor

  They are the hundreds of millions of people across the planet who have no access to safe drinking water or basic sanitation. We have the technology in hand. The major barrier lies in financing both capital investment for facilities and their ongoing operating...