by Jillian Houle | Mar 26, 2023 | climate change, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
Climate Migration Anthropogenic climate change is arguably the problem of our generation. Unchecked burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, unsustainable development practices, industrial agriculture, and the global transportation sector are just a few examples of the...
by Karina Krul | Mar 22, 2023 | climate change, Environmental Law, Land Use
Floods present one of the greatest threats to communities in the United States. Flooding is involved in 90% of all natural disasters and every state has experienced a flood in the last five years. In response to the increases in federal disaster relief due to...
by Maggie Pahl | Feb 22, 2023 | Environmental Law
The New York State 2022-2023 Budget[1] amendment QQ updated the State’s approach to freshwater wetlands regulation. Enforcement of the Freshwater Wetlands Act is delegated to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “Department”, “DEC”, or...
by Jillian Houle | Feb 10, 2023 | Environmental Law
Aristotle defined rhetoric as “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.” Today, rhetoric is broadly defined as “a mode of altering reality…by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of...
