Aldo Leopold's 1947 observation still rings true today: we are "slipping two steps backward for each forward stride." Environmental law, which once expressed a social movement, has failed to keep pace with comprehensive ecological degradation. How can we reimagine it?

One of the most interesting aspects of the State of the Union for the energy industry was not what the president said, but something buried in the accompanying White House fact sheet: a proposal for the federal government to assume an enhanced role in "helping" to plan shale gas development and at the same time promote renewable energy.

As the largest developing country, China has become a primary focus of discussions about involving developing nations in global climate change mitigation efforts because of the size of its population and its rapid, double-digit economic growth. According to a recent inventory of the International Energy Agency (IEA), China is now the world's largest source of energyrelated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, surpassing the United States in 2007 and accounting for 29% of global annual emissions.