Energy Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Blockchain: The Future of Distributed Energy Resources Jennifer E. Gardner Applying blockchain technology to the distribution grid may offer the next step forward for truly enabling customer choice.
Environment California Climate Policies Serving Climate Justice Alice Kaswan California’s integration of climate justice into its climate policies demonstrates the social, environmental, and political value of comprehensive strategies for transitioning to a clean economy.
Environment The Limits of Citizen Environmental Litigation David E. Adelman and Robert L. Glicksman A close look at citizen environmental litigation dispels some myths and rebuts arguments for reining them in.
Environment Going Backward? Environmental Regulation through Tort Litigation Graham C. Zorn, Casey T. Clausen, and Eric L. Klein In decades past, tort law was “environmental law”; are we headed that way again?
Natural Resources Citizens of Washington State Work to Fill Gaps in Regulation of Surface and Groundwater Pollution from CAFOs Sarah A. Matsumoto Washington state’s system for preventing and enforcing agricultural pollution from CAFOs is flawed, requiring citizens to be highly engaged and undertake creative efforts to protect water quality.
Environment Private Governance Response to Climate Change: The Case of Refrigerants Michael P. Vandenbergh, Shannon Vreeland, and Ted Atwood Private initiatives directed at refrigerant emissions can play an important gap-filling role as the federal government reduces pressure on those refrigerants that are potent greenhouse gases.
Environment Filling the Federal Enforcement Gap Caroline Cecot What can we expect when the federal government reduces environmental enforcement efforts? The promise of environmental federalism, common law, and markets in today’s world.
Environment Keeping Up the Pace: State, City, and Private Sector Transportation Decarbonization Fatima Maria Ahmad From regional markets to reduce emissions to clean car procurement, many innovative policies are underway to decarbonize transportation, but more creativity and partnerships are needed.
Natural Resources Our Plastic Problem Sarah J. Morath Local bans, private regulation, educational campaigns, international agreements, institutional pledges, and industrial design are part of the multimodal approach “filling the gap” to our plastic problem.
Environment Vantage Point J.B. Ruhl, Issue Editor Regarding policy domains that the government could address but has not—or not sufficiently—the question is whether other forms of governance are willing and able to “fill the gap.”
Environment Perspectives: New Attorney in Environmental Nonprofit Law Shannon A. Hughes Learn to successfully tackle the challenges of creating systems for best practices, finding mentorship, and finding your own voice.
Environment Literary Resources Reviewed by Madeline June Kass Reviews of How the Military Fights Climate Change and An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival
Natural Resources The Back Page: Dicamba: A Dispatch from the Weed Wars Jonathan P. Scoll Dicamba is an extraordinarily potent herbicide, but its drift can injure sensitive crops, and weeds are now evolving dicamba resistance. The United States will soon need new strategies beyond chemical controls.
Environment Trends in Social and Environmental Responsibility Samuel L. Brown and P. Scott Burton Trends in social and environmental responsibility will increasingly impact corporate decision-making in the United States and abroad, creating new risks and opportunities.
Natural Resources Protecting Venice’s Lagoon from Acqua Altissima Erin Flannery Keith Facing twenty-first century climate change–driven sea level rise, Venice must complete long-overdue floodgate and wetlands projects to protect its natural and cultural World Heritage site.
Environment Climate Change Must Be Taken Seriously Lisa A. Decker The United States’ Fourth National Climate Assessment finds that the impacts of climate change—already evident—are expected to damage infrastructure, ecosystems, and social systems, and impede economic growth over the next century.
Environment The Land-Use Solution to Climate Change Jim Murphy Science tells us we not only need to reduce carbon emissions dramatically but also sequester carbon to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming. Land use changes offer opportunities and solutions.
Environment Climate Change Regulation, Version 2.0 Brook Detterman As legal frameworks for regulating and pricing carbon emissions evolve they are being tested in the United States and globally, with some bright spots amid the uncertainty.
Environment The Use of Drones in Environmental Compliance Kelly Daly and Patrick Paul Drones will be used increasingly in the environmental and natural resource world as both the regulated community and the regulators begin to appreciate their safety, cost, and timing benefits.
