Governing AI: The Importance of Environmentally Sustainable and Equitable Innovation
Artificial intelligence (AI) and complex machine learning algorithms have come to play a profound role in many of our day-to-day activities.
COVID-19 and Environmental Law
The COVID-19 pandemic will have far-reaching and even transformative implications for environmental law.
California v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Ninth Circuit overturned a ruling denying EPA's motion to modify an injunction requiring it to promulgate a federal landfill emissions plan by November 6, 2019. The appellate court held that the district court abused its discretion in denying the Agency's request for relief because EPA promulgat...
United States v. Sterling Centrecorp Inc.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling in a lawsuit concerning the U.S. government's and California's recovery of cleanup costs from a hazardous waste spill in the Sierra Nevada foothills that released toxic amounts of arsenic into local groundwater. Plaintiffs sued the company that had acq...