March 6, 2020
by Camilla Brandfield-Harvey
By Samuel Harris, Managing Editor
As the Gulf Coast faces the prospect of increasingly intense hurricane seasons, a recently published paper may provide a ray of hope to local communities that already feel the effects of climate change.
March 4, 2020
by Bryce Brenda
Joseph Nelson, Staff Contributor
Food Freedom Laws can help us positively reorder our relationships with our food, our neighbors, and the Earth we share.
February 26, 2020
by Sara Douki
Energy
Fossil Fuels
Natural Resources
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
State and Local
Water
Gabriel Dowdell, Staff Contributor
Should the EPA regulate fracking more heavily? Currently, states that benefit financially from fracking regulate the industry.
February 24, 2020
by De Vann Sago
Energy
Federal Rollbacks
Online Supplemental Article
Renewable Energy
In this exclusive online article, Roy Jackson, a recent Georgetown Law graduate, explains how photovoltaic-solar (“PV”) project costs have decreased in recent decades and how investments in this industry may grow stagnant under both recently enacted and proposed federal policy changes.
February 13, 2020
by Maxwell Unterhalter
Renewable Energy
State and Local
By Kayla Steinberg, Staff Contributor
In July 2019, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s Public Service Commission has the final say on the siting of solar and wind energy projects, prompting concerns by local governments over how to protect farmland from development.
February 10, 2020
by Trevor Herden
Air
Climate change
Fossil Fuels
Natural Resources
By Molly Green, Staff Contributor.
Do children have a right to a government that protects their interest in a sustainable climate? Will Courts give them a chance to voice the urgency of their climate-based claims?
February 6, 2020
by Jessica Meltzer
Should Exxon have to pay a carbon tax for its recent methane leak?
By Weston Coward, Staff Contributor
January 16, 2020
by Dani Brooks
Energy
Natural Resources
Renewable Energy
By Julia Sweitzer, Staff Contributor
California has seen a recent surge in local municipalities establishing Community Choice Aggregation programs to choose their electricity portfolios. But how do these programs work and are they effective?
November 15, 2019
by Maxwell Unterhalter
Chemicals
By Maxine Walters, Staff Contributor.
Residents in Uniontown, Alabama get a win in their battle over Arrowhead Landfill.
November 6, 2019
by Jessica Meltzer
By Alka Paturi, Staff Contributor
Chlorpyrifos has been the subject of much regulation in recent years. With the European Union on track to ban large-scale agricultural use of chlorpyrifos, where does the EPA stand on this hazardous chemical?