Volume 39, Issue 2
Examining seaweed farming practices in the United States, with a focus on state regulatory schemes, the authors reveal lessons learned, opportunities ahead, and best practices moving forward.
The deceptive marketing of agricultural practices and products is commonplace throughout our food systems; litigation presents an opportunity for consumer advocacy.
Seawater falls outside the California water rights framework, and desalinating underground seawater and brackish water creates “new water” not subject to preexisting groundwater rights.
This article examines the rapidly evolving legal landscape surrounding the presence of PFAS in agricultural biosolids, explores the current regulatory framework, and highlights the potential liabilit…
As food production becomes more sophisticated, courts and legislatures are struggling with how to apply the centuries-old concept of nuisance to 21st century farming practices.
The article discusses the regulatory challenges of siting Recirculating Aquaculture Systems facilities for Atlantic Salmon in Maryland and nationwide.
The current failure of U.S. law and policy to regulate the climate harms of animal agriculture is a missed opportunity to start the necessary transition to a more sustainable food system.
A summary is provided of the current policy framework related to aquaculture as a form of agricultural production and the benefits of the potential SHELLS Act legislation.
This article explores the integration of agriculture and solar energy through agrivoltaics, highlighting the legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks essential for its successful implementation.
This issue explores agricultural and aquacultural practices that intersect with federal, state, and local natural resources, environmental, and energy regulations and policies and some much-needed, f…
What keeps environmental attorneys going when the damage has already been done and can’t be fixed, or, worse, when climate change might make our work not even matter?
NR&E interviews biological oceanographer Dr. Donald Boesch, professor and former president of marine science at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science about his career.
Reviews of the books Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis; Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010; and George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wildernes…
Given the current realities of global warming and devastating climatic events, policymakers and natural resources, energy, environmental attorneys would be wise to prioritize climate adaptation rathe…
This article recaps four aspects of the 2024 Public Lands Rule: reaffirmation of conservation as a land use, expansion of land-health standards, reinvigoration of ACECs, and recommitment to tribal co…
New PFAS regulations by the EPA are reshaping the food and beverage industry. Discover the legal implications and compliance challenges.
Will the Council on Environmental Quality's revisions to NEPA regulations deliver improved processes following back-and-forth rulemakings under the Trump and Biden administrations?
Facing worsening impacts from climate change, Vermont proposes a novel legal solution: requiring major fossil fuel companies to pay for the climate change-related damages emissions from their product…
EPA intends to address lead in telephone lines via the Superfund Program. But Superfund is not likely an efficient or quick tool for this problem.