AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 21: The 2024 U.S. Election’s Impact on ESG Regulations
Business Better Podcast Episode: An Update on Environmental Justice Under the Biden Administration
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Natural Resource Damages & Environmental Justice
Drinking Water on Tap: Money, Morality, and More with Tracy Mehan from the American Water Works Association - Reflections on Water Podcast
Williams Mullen Manufacturing Edge: Environmental Enforcement in the Current Regulatory Climate
On-Demand Webinar | Linear Infrastructure Redux: Adapting Your Projects to Meet the New Regulatory Climate
On April 7, 2025, a coalition of climate-impacted individuals and leading environmental NGOs—including Greenpeace and Notre Affaire à Tous—addressed a formal notice to the French government, challenging France's adaptation...more
On April 22, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (EO) directing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to begin to unwind “disparate impact” regulations that were established under federal civil rights laws. In the...more
Throughout 2024, young Americans from states like Oregon, California, and Hawaii turned to litigation, arguing that court intervention is necessary to protect them from climate change. The young plaintiffs spearheading these...more
The Center for Biological Diversity and other organizations filed a March 10th Petition for Writ of Mandamus (“Petition”) before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit asking that the United...more
We previously reported on New York State’s enactment of the Climate Change Superfund Act (the “Climate Superfund Act” or the “Act”), groundbreaking legislation that seeks to recover $75 billion from fossil fuel producers for...more
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) lacks statutory authority to issue binding regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). While the decision does not invalidate any actions...more
For half a century, young people in the United States have played an active role in ongoing efforts to address climate change. Moving into 2024, young climate litigants find themselves in a promising position: They recently...more
Environmental and energy issues were in the headlines for much of 2023. We had several major US Supreme Court cases, Canadian wildfires that produced haze in many American cities throughout the summer, and continued attention...more
Abstract - Determining the amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for injury to natural resources is central to estimating natural resource damages (NRDs). Formal restoration scaling methods have not...more
The environmental legal community is experiencing a resurgence in attention to environmental justice. Federal government attorneys are working on environmental justice as a top priority in regulatory, permitting, and funding...more
Earlier this month more than 300 professors and graduate students throughout the world participated in the first virtual colloquium of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Academy of Environmental...more
Linear infrastructure projects, including oil and gas pipelines, electric transmission lines and transportation, have faced a number of regulatory challenges over the last year. Some of these challenges stem from changes in...more
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure...more
With “regime change” well underway with the new administration settling in, much has been said about the Biden-Harris policy positioning of environmental justice or “EJ”. That focus was memorialized in President Biden’s...more
As 2020 came to a close, more than forty Directors of environmental law clinics, from law schools across the country, came together to reflect and share with each other. The environmental law clinic directors meeting has...more