by Karl Coplan | Nov 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
What do you call a team that wins the league pennant and then throws the World Series? Today’s New York Times article about the behind the scenes lobbying that lead to the abandonment of revised health-based ozone standards is revealing if unsurprising. What is...
by Karl Coplan | Nov 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Energy and Environment News this week reported on a letter from the GOP congressional leadership urging EPA to scrap its proposed Waters of the United States guidance document, noticed for public comment last May. No surprises there. The proposed guidance takes the...
by Karl Coplan | Nov 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Three years ago, the rupture of a coal ash pond in Kingston, Tennessee sent 5.4 million cubic yards of a toxic slurry into neighborhoods and the Emory River. That spill focused attention on EPA’s persistent failure to come up with regulations governing disposal...
by Karl Coplan | Oct 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by Karl Coplan | Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
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.”...
