by Michele Okoh | Oct 8, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
Drought. Flooding. Extreme heat. Climate change has many tools for destruction, but no matter the disaster, in a 4° Celsius world, parts of the United States will be left uninhabitable. Significant portions of the population will be forced to leave their homes due to...
by David Takacs | Oct 8, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
A 4°C world will reshape the human and nonhuman landscapes of the planet. That’s axiomatic. This reshaping, which we could have avoided, will now unfurl beyond our control: Seas will inundate, storms will destroy, drought will parch. But within our control is how...
by Karrigan Bork | Oct 7, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
Professors Ruhl and Craig paint a vision of a 4ºC world marked by “discontinuous and often unpredictable transformation.” Nature, from climate to ecosystems to species, is hard to predict in the best of times. It’s a wild beast in a 4ºC world. This means that we will...
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 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...
