Law Related Topics 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In another victory for environmental and human health amongst disadvantaged communities in California, Assemblymember Laura Friedman’s AB 1963 addressing paraquat dichloride was signed into law. The Environmental Working Group detailed how parquat disproportionately threatens California’s low-income Latino communities.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Supreme Court tends to get all the attention, but for every Supreme Court opinion on environmental law there are probably fifty opinions in the lower federal courts. Collectively, the lower courts have done fat least as much to shape the law than the Supreme Courts occasional interventions. Any top ten list is a bit arbitrary.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Legal Planet
JULY 2, 2025
Putting aside the particulars of the case, it seems wrong to apply the same standard (monetized cost-benefit analysis) to every provision in environmental law. But an agency’s job should be to implement congressional mandates, not second-guess their wisdom — and still less delegate the job of assessing the wisdom of laws to staff economists.
Legal Planet
JULY 24, 2025
The Advisory Opinion, though technically non-binding, affirms the existence of a legal right to a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” under international law and extends this and related rights to the context of climate change. However, they are influential as subsidiary sources of international law.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2025
This powerful statement of law and principle is part of a growing wave of international legal action on climate change, following last year’s AO from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and ahead of a highly anticipated opinion by the International Court of Justice.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 3, 2024
We had large waitlists from both law and college students. There have been over 80 Rights of Nature (RoN) laws passed across the U.S., In all, there have been over 500 RoN laws, cases, policies and declarations around the globe, and the numbers are increasing. One thing is for sure — there is huge student interest in the topic.
Legal Planet
MARCH 31, 2025
(Klamath River Dam removal project [credit: Los Angeles Times]) Most of the environmental law and policy matters discussed on Legal Planet–especially over the past few months–have dealt with natural resource crises, environmental rollbacks, hostile political actors and actions in Washington, D.C., Davis law school).
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
Let's personalize your content