Pace Environmental Law Review

Federal and state policies should encourage localities that contain neighborhoods with the potential for district energy systems and transit oriented development to rezone these areas as Energy Conservation Districts calibrated to achieve multiple objectives of...

Last month I presented a paper at the Vermont Law School Environmental Scholarship symposium, and the paper relied in some part on the idea that the most achievable (if modest) means of incorporating climate externalities into societal decisionmaking would be some...

The Occupy Wall Street protests have been characterized by their lack of a set of specific policy demands, so it may be that a short answer to the question "What does Occupy Wall Street mean for the future of environmental law?" is "not much." As a left-leaning,...

While the Deepwater Horizon spill has been out of the headlines for a year, oil continues to bleed into the Gulf of Mexico from many other drill rigs.  Waterkeeper Alliance and several Gulf Coast Waterkeeper organizations have just given notice of their intent to sue...

Clean Water Act § 316(b) requires facilities that discharge waste heat (primarily thermal electric steam generating power plants) to use the "Best Technology Available" (BTA) for minimizing or avoiding adverse environmental impact.  The primary impact of these...

by John R. Nolon The news coverage of the damage wrought by tropical storms Irene and Lee describes the perfect storm caused by a rapidly changing physical, financial, and political environment. Recent flooding is only the latest convincing evidence for us laymen that...

One of the bedrock principles of environmental federalism is that States may always choose to impose stricter, more protective standards than the federal agency might choose for the same activity.  One of the key means by which environmental federalism is implemented...

David Cassuto BAILE (the Brazil-American Institute for Law & Environment) has been focusing on transboundary groundwater of late.  Prof. Romulo Sampaio and I attended a UNESCO/ISARM conference on the subject in Paris last December, where we presented a paper on...

by John R. Nolon Those of us who believe the overwhelming number of scientists who document and report on the existence of climate change tend to use those scientific conclusions to convince skeptics.  There may be a better way.  There are a number of institutions...

by Christopher Rizzo States’ cap-and-trade programs for greenhouse gases are being challenged around the nation in both courts and legislatures.  Most recently, on June 27, 2011, three plaintiffs filed a complaint against New York, alleging that the state's...