EcoPerspectives
EcoPerspectives is an environmental law-focused blog discussing current developments in environmental law, proposals to achieve more environmentally-friendly outcomes, and unique perspectives on environmental concerns impacting the global world we all live in.
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Summary: Allen Smith, a rising 3L at Vermont Law School, spent the summer in Rhode Island working on climate change policy in both the Statehouse and the Department of Environmental...
Summary: The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) highly controversial proposed rule would establish baseline environmental safeguards for the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas on federal and Indian mineral lands. Although...
Summary: New drone technology is offering environmental groups an innovative way to ensure compliance with environmental laws. Drones can collect images at a distance while providing environmental groups with important...
 Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and...
 Summary: While many of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions this term were controversial, the air quality cases were marked victories for the environment. One of the Supreme Court's recent decisions,...
Summary: Last week the Supreme Court handed down its second Clean Air Act case of the term, Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA. This plain English guide to the Supreme...
Summary: President Obama recently declared the Organs Mountain-Desert Peaks as a national monument only months after the House of Representatives passed a bill that would curtail his authority to do...
 Summary: In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Deep in this bulwark of financial regulatory overhaul, Congress passed a provision aimed to achieve a...
Summary: This EcoPerspective discusses the EPA's and Army Corps of Engineers' attempt at redefining the meaning of  "waters of the United States." Since the Supreme Court decision in Rapanos v....
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