by Josh Galperin | Oct 7, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law, Land Use
Governments, and therefore taxpayers, could be saddled with enormous costs as global temperatures increase over the coming years. One aspect of these costs is the money governments in the United States must pay to private property owners as compensation if governments...
by Melissa Powers | Oct 4, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
In August, 2021, for the first time ever, the federal government declared a water shortage in the Colorado River basin. While the declaration was not necessarily surprising—the Colorado River has been in an official state of drought for the past 22 years and experts...
by Kevin Lynch, Shi-Ling Hsu and Karrigan Bork | Oct 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Western water rights reflect a short and stable climate history, but that period of stability is ending. Looming climate change of 4°C will produce not only higher temperatures, but decreased snowpack, shifts in runoff patterns, and the dramatic shrinkage of giant...
by Shannon Roesler | Oct 1, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
By Shannon Roesler (Professor of Law, The University of Iowa College of Law)[*] The Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) comprises a rotating group of law professors who assemble every other year to think, discuss, and write on an important and intriguing theme in...
by Achinthi Vithanage | Oct 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
This month of October, Pace | Haub Environmental Law’s GreenLawBlog will be co-hosting, with Environmental Law Prof Blog, a series of essays by the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) on the adaptation challenges of the worst-case climate scenario: a world...
