Pace Environmental Law Review

David Cassuto From the Shameless Self Promotion Desk ...  The most recent issue of the Journal of Animal Ethics has a piece by me offering some thoughts about U.S. v. Stevens (the crush video/animal fighting, 1st Amendment Case).  It's titled: "United States v....

David Cassuto This Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 4 pm in the Moot Court Room at Pace Law School in White Plains, Steve Wise will speak on : "The Nonhuman Rights Project's Struggle for Nonhuman Personhood." Reception to follow. If you haven't heard Steve speak, you...

The Sackett decision is out.  Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court voted 9-0 to hold that EPA's order directing the Sacketts to remove fill material from a disputed wetlands area was final, ripe, and immediately reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act. ...

Comprehensive planning is the antidote for ill-considered and isolated land use decisions, particularly those that adversely affect wetlands and watersheds, cause increased flooding, and promote wasteful sprawl.  This said, detailed and informed comprehensive plans...

This week, a DC Circuit panel held two days of oral argument on the multitude of challenges to EPA's December 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and the "Tailoring Rule."  Very few reports of the argument seem to have made it into the mainstream press, but...

On February 21st, the Supreme Court in New York found that local governments are empowered to regulate hydrofracking under their delegated zoning and land use authority, despite preemptive language in the state’s Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law ("OGSML").  To fully...

Today's unanimous Supreme Court decision in PPL Montana v. Montana rejected Montana's claim to title to miles of Missouri River riverbed that had been converted to hydropower reservoirs, finding that the navigability test for state title to  underwater lands must be...

Perhaps the most interesting revelation from the leaked Heartland Institute documents is the climate denial think tank's plan to develop a public school curriculum designed to counter the climate science consensus and perpetuate the false controversy about the state...

Posted on behalf of Dean Emeritus Richard Ottinger: To the Editors, The New York Times: Joe Nocero’s two recent Op Ed columns on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline demonstrate a disturbing disregard of the overwhelming dangers of climate change that threaten sea level...

The Adirondack Park Agency has just approved a massive 6,500 acre, 650 housing unit resort and vacation home development in an area bounded by "Forever Wild" Adirondack Park lands.  The "Adirondack Club Resort"  would include 15 30-50 acre "great camp" lots -- a...