This Article explores potential impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), focusing on FERC’s…

The Trump EPA is rescinding the endangerment finding (EF) for GHGs to implement the oil industry’s strategy to prevent loss of its $600-billion annual market for petroleum fuels for at least the…

Executive Order No. 14241, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production, attempts to create a prominent role for the federal government in accelerating and expanding domestic mineral…

Tribes in the Pacific Northwest have faced persistent obstacles to their exercise of treaty fishing rights, most prominently illegal regulation of off-reservation fishing by state governments. As…

This Comment focuses on energy developments offshore. Part I recognizes OCSLA’s purpose of balancing energy needs with protection of marine animals, coastal beaches, and wetlands. Part II…

In order to manage California wilderness areas to preserve their natural and untrammeled character, as required by the Wilderness Act, federal land management agencies should adopt interpretations…

Four myths are distorting the national debate over permit reform. First, it is misconceived as a singular issue, with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) at its center. Second, reformers…

On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, concluding that courts have a constitutional and statutory obligation to exercise their “…

Congress in the 2020s has authorized three new environmentally focused grant programs relating to western waters and appropriated $450 million in multi-year funding. The Bureau of Reclamation is…

Following a turbulent transition and in the midst of a global pandemic, Joseph R. Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021. In its first year, the Biden…