Climate change's most consequential harms are slow, structural, and often invisible, exemplified by the growing commodification of water in the American West. While private law offers limited remedies, meaningful solutions require legislative reform.
In February 2026, EPA repealed the 2009 Endangerment Finding and said that, without it, the agency lacks authority under Clean Air Act section 202(a) to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from new motor vehicles. This article explains what the 2009 Endangerment Finding was, and why repealing it matters.
California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard perversely incentivizes industrial dairy farms to expand livestock production and increase methane emissions, regardless of manure digestion, via overvalued biogas credits.
The Environmental Protection Agency's repeal of the 2009 Greenhouse Endangerment Finding substantially curtails greenhouse gas regulation, implicating previous decisions and the Major Questions Doctrine.
The Ninth Circuit recently blocked Hawai‘i’s cruise ship Green Fee, delaying necessary climate resilience funding, while weighing constitutional challenges to the nation’s first climate impact fee.
H.R. 4673 is scientifically unsound and keeps focus away from substantive discussions on how to make animal agriculture more environmentally sustainable.
Climate change is displacing millions, but U.S. environmental and immigration laws fail to protect climate migrants—revealing a growing legal gap with urgent human consequences.
Due to anthropogenic climate change, natural disasters continue to rise, and Congress must act to ensure these events do not disrupt elections. With financial cuts to both federal emergency response agencies and reduced federal funding for state and local election administration, natural disasters have the potential to disrupt and disenfranchise thousands of Americans.
The "Grue Jay," a miraculous hybrid, reveals a greater truth about the role of humans in shaping avian adaptation. State and local politicians are taking the initiative to supplement weakened federal protections for wildlife.
A challenge to state climate laws by the Department of Justice, following a recent executive order, will test the limits of environmental federalism. But the dormant Commerce Clause is not a serious obstacle for states.
