Environmental Regulation

Recycling regulations should reward usable recovered materials, not just collection volume.

Scholars discuss the impacts of federal energy policy and state-level climate policy.

A changing equal protection landscape does not change the legality of environmental justice initiatives.

The high Court will confront climate change, judicial review, and other regulatory issues.

Fossil fuel companies threaten to complete the regulatory capture of EPA.

Accumulated evidence on the harms of gas leaf blowers has bolstered the rationale for regulation.

Margaret Spring discusses domestic and global efforts to reform plastics regulation.

The Energy Department’s misuse of its emergency powers undermines states’ authority over energy planning.

Scholars discuss how unsettled climate policies reduce international trade and foreign direct investments.

EPA’s recent rollback of a climate rule echoes decades of fluctuation in domestic environmental policy.

EPA’s lopsided focus on regulatory costs ignores the much larger forgone benefits and the law.

The EPA dog may catch the climate change bus, but it probably will not end climate change regulation.