As the federal government abandons climate action and environmental protection, advocates and scholars pin their hopes on state constitutional amendments to fill the void. The underlying idea is…

This Article explores the significant, detrimental implications of the intellectual property (IP), environmental, and human rights harms created by fast fashion. Fast fashion takes advantage of…

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…

For most of the 20th century, predicting chemical safety relied upon testing in animals. Today, a new generation of tools is redefining how we assess the risks that chemicals pose, offering a…

The public trust clause of Pennsylvania’s environmental rights amendment recognizes the commonwealth’s responsibility to “conserve and maintain” “public natural resources,” and states that these…

Nonpoint source pollution is “the leading remaining cause of water quality problems” in the country. Approximately “half of all water pollution” choking our rivers comes from nonpoint sources,…

Criminal law has been widely used around the world to protect nature, but how to structure it for optimal protection remains unclear. This Article proposes a framework for applying criminal…

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…

State and local governments are contending with the challenge of “residual climate risk”—threats posed by private adaptation failures that endanger surrounding communities. While policy tools like…

There is a startling lack of global regulation of the marine ornamental trade. The only international legal framework that governs the trade of marine ornamentals is the Convention on…