Blogs & Resources
ACOEL members contribute regularly to the ACOEL Blog, writing on topics of current interest in their respective fields. Recently-published blogs are featured below, or you can search the ACOEL blog archive using the search feature.
Current Blogs
Most States Rise to the Challenge and Submit Preliminary Climate Plans to EPA – Now for the Hard Part
April 30, 2024Posted on April 30, 2024 by Steven Chester In mid-April of this year, the Climate XChange, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing state climate policy, announced that it, along with RMI and the Evergreen Collaborative, had reviewed “6,795 pages of state climate plans.” These plans had been submitted to...
EPA Designates PFAS as Hazardous Substances; EPA Is More Confident Than I Am that the Sky Isn’t Falling
April 24, 2024Posted on April 24, 2024 by Seth Jaffe Last Friday, EPA formally designated perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) – including their salts and structural isomers! – as hazardous substances under CERCLA. I cannot really quarrel with the underlying decision to list PFOA and PFOS. Given the developing...
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Supreme Court Gets Back to Basics in Declining to Hear Three Environmental Cases
March 2, 2010Posted on March 2, 2010 by Eva Fromm O”Brien The United States Supreme Court recently declined to hear three relatively high-profile environmental cases: Croplife America v. Baykeeper (a permitting clash between...
UPDATE ON THE POULTRY LITIGATION IN OKLAHOMA Poultry litter is not a solid waste under RCRA
February 26, 2010Posted on February 26, 2010 by Linda C. Martin The Oklahoma State Attorney General sued several poultry companies for polluting the Illinois River and its watershed in Eastern Oklahoma as a...
Everything is Connected to Everything Else
February 25, 2010Posted on February 25, 2010 by Mary Nichols In his 1971 book, The Closing Circle, ecologist Barry Commoner outlined an informal set of “laws of ecology” governing life on Earth. I...
Is There a New Era of Environmental “Veto” Legislation?
February 24, 2010Posted on February 24, 2010 by Charles Nestrud Will environmental issues play a prominent role in the upcoming elections? It appears so, particularly if your state’s Senior Democratic Senator is up...
“The Increasing Role of Constitutionalism in Environmental Law: It’s Less Boring Than That Suggests!”
February 17, 2010Posted on February 17, 2010 by James R. May On February 26, 2010, Dan Farber, Doug Kysar, Rob Glicksman and I will be on a panel at Georgetown about emerging issues...
EPA’s Roll-Back of Bush-Era Rules Appears to Begin in Earnest
February 13, 2010Posted on February 13, 2010 by Seth Jaffe While a lot of attention has been paid to whether EPA would reverse the Bush EPA decision denying California’s petition to regulate greenhouse...
Opposition to Wind Farm Siting Based on Adverse Health Effect from Infrasound?
February 9, 2010Posted on February 9, 2010 by Roger Ferland One of the big hurdles for further development of wind power in the U.S. is landowner objections to placement of turbines near their...
DON’T DIG A WATERY GRAVE: STAY CURRENT ON THE LATEST WATER REGULATIONS AND AVAILABLE FUNDING
February 8, 2010Posted on February 8, 2010 by Joseph Manko originally posted for the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Green-House Counsel ©2009 The construction and rehabilitation of our nation’s infrastructure has come to the fore with...
Has the BNSF Case Changed the Superfund Practice?
February 5, 2010Posted on February 5, 2010 by Bradley Marten It has been nearly nine months since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company v. United States(BNSF), a case some...
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