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
Risky Business: Deciding Whether Chemicals Pose Risk Is Getting Really Confusing
January 27, 2023Posted on January 27, 2023 by Lynn L. Bergeson Chemicals are the foundational origin of just about everything we enjoy and cannot live without. The federal law that authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate industrial chemical substances is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), an almost...
The Conundrum of Managed Retreat
January 20, 2023Posted on January 20, 2023 by Elizabeth Andrews Should I stay or should I go now?If I go, there will be troubleAnd if I stay it will be double…(The Clash) In the climate change resilience space, there is much talk of Managed Retreat – the concept that some areas...
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Another Day Older and Deeper in (Carbon) Debt
December 20, 2022Posted on December 20, 2022 by Seth Jaffe The International Energy Agency has released its 2022 Coal analysis and forecast. It is sobering. By the time 2022 is over,...
The Agony of Defeat (Devices)
December 19, 2022Posted on December 19, 2022 by Sam Gutter I’ve been engaged in issues involving mobile sources for more than 40 years. For much of that time, most of the...
Our Environmental Statutes Are Broken
December 12, 2022Posted on December 12, 2022 by Seth Jaffe A few weeks ago, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a writ of mandamus to the Center for Biological Diversity,...
Is PFAS Hype Causing Irrational Decisions?
December 5, 2022Posted on December 5, 2022 by John V. Byl The intense focus on PFAS compounds in recent years, and particularly PFOA and PFOS, is undeniable. There have been several...
Heavy, Sticky, and Sometimes Icky
November 29, 2022Posted on November 29, 2022 by Kevin R. Murray The road seems heavy and sticky, take time to reach out to other Fellows, and for our own mental health,...
A Few Certain Things – Taxes, Hydrogen, Natural Gas, and Climate Change?
November 28, 2022Posted on November 28, 2022 by Donald C. Bluedorn II On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf signed House Bill 1059, which amends the Commonwealth’s Tax Reform Code and,...
CERCLA Has Never Been a “Polluter Pays” Statute
November 18, 2022Posted on November 18, 2022 by Seth Jaffe Environment and Energy Report (subscription required) had a story yesterday about growing opposition to EPA’s proposal to list two PFAS compounds,...
Permitting Reform after Inflation Reduction Act?
November 9, 2022Posted on November 9, 2022 by Bill Brownell On October 12th, the Biden Administration announced an “Action Plan” to accelerate infrastructure development following enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act...
Can Cumulative Impact Analysis Improve Cost-Benefit Analysis?
October 24, 2022Posted on October 24, 2022 by Seth Jaffe As frequent readers know, I am a big fan of cost-benefit analysis. The basic idea is that, when we make a...
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