Environmental Law and Policy/Governance
Analysis of Environmental Law Scholarship 2021-2022
Author
Linda K. Breggin, Kristen Sarna, Henry Woods, and Michael P. Vandenbergh
Author Bios (long)

Linda K. Breggin is a Senior Attorney with the Environmental Law Institute and Lecturer in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School. Kristen Sarna and Henry Woods are recent graduates of Vanderbilt University Law School. Michael P. Vandenbergh is the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law and Co-Director of the Energy, Environment, and Land Use Program, Vanderbilt University Law School.

Date
August 2023
Volume
53
Issue
8
Page
10623
Type
Comment(s)
Summary

The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) is published by the Environmental Law Institute’s (ELI’s) Environmental Law Reporter in partnership with Vanderbilt University Law School. This Comment highlights the results of the ELPAR article selection process and reports on the environmental legal scholarship for the 2021-2022 academic year, including the number of environmental law articles published in general law reviews versus environmental law journals, and the topics covered in the articles. It also presents the top 20 articles that met ELPAR’s criteria of persuasiveness, impact, feasibility, and creativity.

H.R. 4949
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
Sponsor Name
Soto
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Fla.
Issue
9
Volume
53
Update Issue
21
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H4030

would require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a grant program to facilitate the training and employment of veterans for certain conservation activities.

H.R. 4920
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Sponsor Name
Leger Fernandez
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.M.
Issue
9
Volume
53
Update Issue
21
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H4029

would provide for cost-share waivers for projects carried out in response to wildland fires caused by certain government actions.

H.R. 4912
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Sponsor Name
Jackson
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.C.
Issue
9
Volume
53
Update Issue
21
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H4028

would require the evaluation of certain criteria relating to locations for deployment of successor radar systems of the National Weather Service.

S. 2354
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Sponsor Name
Murkowski
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Alaska
Issue
9
Volume
53
Update Issue
21
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. S2984

would improve access to healthy foods, food processing, housing, forestry, agricultural research, and other agricultural programs, and tribal self-determination relating to those programs, in Alaska.

H.R. 4625
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
Meuser
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Pa.
Issue
9
Volume
53
Update Issue
21
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H3574

would require the U.S. Comptroller General to conduct a study on the detrimental impact of the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive on U.S. companies.

H.R. 4618
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Sponsor Name
Hoyle
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Or.
Issue
9
Volume
53
Update Issue
21
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H3574

would amend Title 46, U.S. Code, to allow Port Infrastructure Development Program grants to support the loading and unloading of commercially harvested fish and fish products.

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