Pace Environmental Law Review

It’s hard to know what to say about the first week of Rio+20.  The PrepCom ended as it had begun, with a bloated document running over two-hundred pages, and hundreds of  brackets reflecting areas of disagreement. This came after weeks of “informal-informal”...

Professor Nicholas Robinson reports that his lectures Thursday at the Jurists conference (at the Botanical Garden) and Friday at the Planeta Verde/Judicial conference (at the Rio Supreme Court) went well. He acknowledged Pace alum Prof. Romulo Sampaio  and 4 of our...

Two days into the initial week of work it’s hard to encapsulate any commentary. On the logistical end, the Brazilians are making strenuous efforts to see that things go smoothly. At the moment there seem to be more helpers and guides than conference participants,...

GreenLaw will be posting reports, observations and reflections from our Pace Law contingent in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Rio+20 conference - the 20th anniversary meeting of the 1992 Earth Summit, now called the Conference on Sustainable Development. In addition...

Today's New York Times piece on the slow death of coal in the Southeast United States generally reports good news for the environment.  The fact is, coal is not only dirty, it's uneconomical as well, and with the implementation of existing environmental controls it's...

Two years ago the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded creating an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in hundreds of lawsuits.  Many of the suits were consolidated in multi-district litigation in the Eastern District of Louisiana.  Among the  plaintiffs...

David Cassuto From the Shameless Self Promotion Desk ...  The most recent issue of the Journal of Animal Ethics has a piece by me offering some thoughts about U.S. v. Stevens (the crush video/animal fighting, 1st Amendment Case).  It's titled: "United States v....

David Cassuto This Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 4 pm in the Moot Court Room at Pace Law School in White Plains, Steve Wise will speak on : "The Nonhuman Rights Project's Struggle for Nonhuman Personhood." Reception to follow. If you haven't heard Steve speak, you...

The Sackett decision is out.  Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court voted 9-0 to hold that EPA's order directing the Sacketts to remove fill material from a disputed wetlands area was final, ripe, and immediately reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act. ...