Vermont Law Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2015

EPA Clean Power Plan: Homerun, Base Hit, or Strikeout?

By Student Jacquelyn M. Dussault and Professor Patrick Parenteau

SUMMARY

The world is watching as the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, proposed in June 2014, faces fierce opposition from the coal industry and coal-dependent states. More...

Message from the Director

Today, Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center (ELC) and the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) unveil the fifth annual Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Our ELC faculty and VJEL staff...More...

The field of environmental law is as vast as it is varied and it can be difficult at times to keep track of what’s actually happening. The Top 10 2015 list reflects what the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and environmental faculty at Vermont Law School feel to be the most important environmental legal issues that will likely develop in the upcoming year. These issues—climate change, endangered species preservation, GE foods—affect every single human being on this Earth as well as the Earth itself. The awareness of an issue is the first step toward solving it.”

Andrew Minikowski '15
Editor-in-Chief, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law

EPA Clean Power Plan: Homerun, Base Hit, or Strikeout?

SUMMARY

EPA Clean Power Plan: Homerun, Base Hit, or Strikeout?

Coal at a Crossroads in Powder River Basin

Shedding Light: Vermont's Labeling Law for Genetically Engineered Foods

Obama Administration Settles with Navajo Nation for $554M

EPA v. EME Homer City Generation

Waters of the United States Rule

Gray Wolf Delisting Overturned

BP Oil Spill ‘Gross Negligence’ Finding by Federal Court

Endangered Species Act Regulations Ruled Unconstitutional

California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard