June2015
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Cumulative Impact in Focus: What if “Legal Borrowing” is Just the Ticket?
Just published earlier this month was a sad reminder of NEPA’s utter dependence upon the judicial system for its sting. In Atchafalaya Basinkeeper v. Bostick, 2015 WL 3824318 (E.D. La. 2015), a federal district court denied...June 30, 2015 1792 0 -
Fighting Westway: One Lawyer’s Epic History of a “Regulatory War”
I’ve finally had a chance to read Bill Buzbee’s Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War that Transformed New York City (Cornell 2014). What a terrific read! It is both a painstaking recounting of...June 27, 2015 661 0 -
Pontificating About NEPA
Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on the environment has (justly) received a lot of media attention. The Guardian characterized it as casting blame for our environmental crises on the indifference of the high and mighty. While some...June 19, 2015 999 0 -
Does US Fisheries Management Really Suffer for Being Governed by NEPA?
Magnuson-Stevens. The “Sustainable Fisheries Act.” Known by various monikers, the framework statute governing marine fisheries in the vast tracts of ocean space under US jurisdiction has had its successes and failures. To indulge in a sweeping over-generalization...June 16, 2015 417 0 -
Fossil Fuels’ Third Century: NEPA’s Feature Role in a Geopolitical Endgame?
Coal was probably burned in England by the Roman Empire when it was there. But it wasn’t until the 19th century that England’s ‘industrial revolution’ made coal its fuel of choice and English-speaking peoples started “civilization”...June 4, 2015 943 0
