Those of us who teach environmental law, be it domestic or international, are compelled to revisit how we teach those courses along with how we even choose to engage our students in these perilous tim...

The results could shape responses to climate change for decades to come.

I wish to confirm that for environmental law teachers new and old — whatever our theological leanings — Rebecca Bratspies and Carmen Gonzalez have created a godsend. In a time of existential national ...

Pennsylvania utility bills keep rising, but a new scorecard shows that most state senators voted against every bill intended to lower rates this session—while accepting campaign cash from the same uti...

What draws students to a class in environmental law, and after enrolling, what sustains them? The draw is surely the urgency of meeting this moment of escalating environmental and climate-based threat...

In Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Clean Air Act and the foreign-affairs doctrine preempt state-law climate claims brought by state and local governments s...

Teaching Environmental Law in Context is a fantastic resource, not only for law professors, but for professors of environmental studies and other adjacent fields. I can’t begin to tell you all the num...

The Pennsylvania State Education Association worries that schools will lose food for hungry students, resources for those with special needs and extra support for kids who may be struggling.

Some environmental law professors are doubting that the Supreme Court will embrace the oil industry’s claim that the foreign affairs doctrine bars Boulder, CO’s climate nuisance and fraud suit, one of...

The Feds have used a vaguely defined "emergency" to keep open uneconomic coal-fired power plants, only to get slapped down in the DC Circuit.

In Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Clean Air Act and the foreign-affairs doctrine preempt state-law climate claims brought by state and local governments s...

Pennsylvania Solar Ordinance Database Solar energy generation in Pennsylvania is growing, as are proposals for the construction of new solar energy generation. Solar energy can be “distributed” (s...

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These are challenging times for environmental management because we are losing our social cohesion and are increasingly detached from the lives, both human and more than human, around us. Political sc...

When Carmen Gonzalez and Rebecca Bratspies invited me to comment on their recent textbook Teaching Environmental Law in Context, their gesture signaled something vital: perspectives that environmental...

We’re living through a moment when questions about government power over where people can live, work, travel, and belong have become too important to ignore. At a glance, the topic of migration/immigr...

At the 2026 Law & Society Annual Conference, I participated in a roundtable discussion about Teaching Environmental Law in Context — both the new book by Member Scholars Carmen Gonzalez and Rebecca Br...

If the role of the environmental justice scholar, as the venerable Robert Bullard contends, is to support environmental justice communities, then the responsibility of the environmental law classroom ...

Environmental justice depends on diverse, multi-sectoral stakeholders. But the movement was never meant to run exclusively through them.

My book with fellow Member Scholar Rebecca Bratspies was inspired by an article written by former UN Special Rapporteur (and Member Scholar) John Knox (and co-author Nicole Tronolone) evaluating U.S. ...

Last year, Governor Josh Stein created the North Carolina Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leadership Council to chart a roadmap on AI leadership and policy in the state. The roadmap report published by t...