The Tenth Circuit granted in part and denied in part an environmental group's petition to review EPA approval of Colorado's 2019 SIP revisions.

A district court granted a conservation group's motion to preliminarily enjoin BLM from authorizing grazing in approximately 22,000 acres of land located in key research natural areas that were made unavailable to grazing in BLM's 2015 conservation plan for greater sage-grouse in Oregon.

ELR is pleased to present three articles as a preview to our May-June issue. One argues that if avoided harms to the economy and consumers from emissions reductions can yield economically cognizable consumer welfare enhancement in the longer term, climate action should be defensible under current antitrust doctrine. Another piece urges the granting "presumption of service connection" for PFAS exposure in veterans. And a third discusses issues that future Global Plastics Treaty negotiations must confront to produce an effective plastic life-cycle governance instrument. The full issue will be posted in June.

An antitrust paradox lies at the heart of private-sector climate commitments, particularly if prosocial goals are framed only in terms of economic standards. But if avoided harms to the economy and consumers from emissions reductions can yield economically cognizable consumer welfare enhancement in the longer term, climate action should be defensible under current antitrust doctrine.