Environmental Policy & Law

Evan Hansen has won reelection from Monongalia County to the West Virginia House of Delegates. Read more

During Candice Youngblood's final year at Berkeley Law, she pitched and organized a 200+ attendee environmental justice symposium to increase environmental justice scholarship and discourse within the environmental legal field. The symposium, called Ground-Truthing Injustice, was held on February 8, 2019. She organized the symposium as a leader for the student organization Students for Economic and Environmental Justice (SEEJ). The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment helped host the event.

Lauren Richter, Alissa Cordner & Phil Brown, Sociological Perspectives Producing Ignorance Through Regulatory Structure: The Case of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Abstract:

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Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a new student group dedicated to holding the legal industry accountable for its role in the climate crisis, just released the 2020 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard. The report offers the first comprehensive review of its kind, analyzing the ways in which top law

Brenda Zollitsch, PhD is Senior Policy Analyst for the national nonprofit Association of State Wetland Managers (ASWM). On June 22, 2020 the Trump Administration's new Navigable Waters Protection Act went into effect. This new rule replaces Obama's Clean Water Rule and significantly reduces the waters under federal jurisdiction (known as 'Waters of the United States') across the nation. As states and tribes work to comply with the new rule and assess if they can fill the gaps left with waters now unprotected by EPA and the Corps, Brenda has developed a document to he