Khoury – Winter 2024
Banning Coal: Feasibility and Constitutionality Elias Khoury Abating the accelerating climate crisis will require drastic measures. Countries like the United States, with its outsized contribution to...
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Sierra Club, the EPA, and the Fight over Detroit’s Air Gio Lavoile In May of 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a clean data determination for the metro Detroit area[1] and...
View ArticleLongley – Winter 2024
From Trees’ Rights to Treaty Rights: A Brief Analysis of Rights of Nature Enforcement Elise Longley In 1972, legal scholar Christopher Stone published his essay “Should Trees Have Standing?”...
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Biden’s Reinvigoration of Environmental Justice in the Administrative State Nate Lyon The nation first turned its eyes to environmental justice when an African-American community in North Carolina...
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The Power Is Down (Again) in Tree Town: Examining Electric Utility Municipalization in Ann Arbor Nathaniel Magrath Over the last several years, Ann Arbor residents have organized a push to municipalize...
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Lone Star Misstep:How Texas’s “Free Speech” Gambit Threatens First Amendment Principals and Tees up the Gutting of the Administrative State Logan Moore Introduction Conservative commentators have long...
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Going Green in the Deep Blue: How Bermuda Uses Economic and Community Engagement to Support Sustainability Madilynn O’Hara Nestled between the world’s northernmost coral reefs in the vast Sargasso Sea,...
View ArticleSpinner – Winter 2024
Carbon Credits: A History and Potential Future Evan Spinner In the last several years, as carbon capture technology has developed, various nations and global companies have come to see it as a solution...
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Raffaele – Winter 2024
Zoning Impacts on Vehicle Miles Traveled: The Cases of Fayetteville and Birmingham Aidan Raffaele As the discourse and research around climate change and its effects develops,[1] city governments have...
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The People Over Parking Act: A Double-Edged Sword David Weaver Minimum Parking Regulations (MPRs) are provisions within municipal zoning codes that require developers to build a minimum number of...
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Magill-Fall 2024
Renewed Energy Politics: An Analysis of Renewable Portfolio Standards in Swing States Matthew Magill During the 2024 United States presidential election, energy policy took on renewed importance as a...
View ArticleB. Foster- Winter 2025
Marin Audubon Society and its Potential Impact on the Future of NEPA Benjamin Foster In November 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided Marin Audubon Society...
View ArticleCoyle – Winter 2025
New York’s Congestion Pricing Program Through An Environmental Lens Isabel Coyle According to an inventory prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation accounted for 28 percent of...
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Effective and Uncredited: Women and Environmental Actions Riley Segal Public knowledge about changes in environmental legislation is often limited to new policies and the topics they address. Though...
View ArticleC. Segarra – Winter 2025
Don’t Fear the Federal Shake-Up, States Can Still Enforce Regulations Curtis Segarra As new federal administrators take the reins over the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), switching up leadership...
View ArticleM. Magill – Winter 2025
Reducing Carbon Emissions While Addressing Environmental Concerns in Wisconsin Matthew Magill On December 12, 2015, 195 nations capped the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) with the...
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Gone Before Its Time: The Untimely Demise of Environmental Title VI Challenges Clara Swetnam-Burland In Flint, Michigan, a city already plagued by a pervasive clean water crisis,[1] many of the city’s...
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The Short-Sightedness of State Bans on Cultivated Meat Jordan Barpal In May of 2024, Florida and Alabama became the first states in the U.S. to ban the manufacture, sale, and distribution of...
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Non-Lawyers as a Means of Increasing Access to Justice in Administrative Proceedings Edie Knoop Just months into the Trump Administration, the federal administrative state is facing mass...
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America’s Nuclear Comeback: Pros, Cons, and Prescriptions Stuart Carson In March 2011, a tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant’s seawall, flooding its facilities and cutting...
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