Environmental Law — Topics
Who Owns the Night Sky? Reflect Orbital Wants to Sell Sunlight From Space.
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 21, 2026
You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: How the Endangerment Finding Rescission Clears the Path for More State Climate Action
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 31, 2026
Got Methane: How Cattle Diets Can Reduce Emissions.
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 2, 2026
Post-Laidlaw Civil Penalties: Circuit Split or Good-Faith Exception?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 10, 2026
DNR Regulations Could Help Ensure Availability of Walleye for Future Minnesotans
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 2, 2024
NEPA and Climate Change: Are Environmental Protections Hindering Renewable Energy Development?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 9, 2024
Floating Fans in the Ocean: Recognizing the Significance of Maine’s Recent Bill Regarding Offshore Wind Development Projects
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 12, 2023
Hello! My Name Is…Erie? Personhood for the Great Lakes
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 15, 2023
Victory in the Big Sky Country: The Ramifications of Held v. Montana
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 30, 2023
A Tax on the EPA’s Power: The Supreme Court and the Future of Carbon Pricing
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 26, 2023
A New Iron Age: New Developments in Battery Technology
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 14, 2023
EJScreen: The Environmental Justice Tool That You Didn’t Know You Needed
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 4, 2023
Hazardous Train Derailment: How a Poor Track Record for Private Railway Company May Impact Negligence Lawsuit Surrounding Major Incident
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 4, 2023
Saving the Planet With Admin Law: Another Blow to Tax Exceptionalism
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 13, 2022
Charged Up! the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and Its Impacts on Energy Storage Capacity in the U.S.
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 4, 2022
Beef (and Residual Hormones?). It’s What’s for Dinner.
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 6, 2022
Whisky Is for Drinking, Water Is for Fighting
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 25, 2022
Hydrogen – The Fuel of the Future?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 5, 2022
Hunting the Hunters: The Recent Saga of Gray Wolf Hunting and Protection
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 5, 2022
Zombie Deer: Slowing the Spread of CWD
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 18, 2022
Holy Crap: The First Amendment, Septic Systems, and the Strict Scrutiny Standard in Land Use Law
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 22, 2021
Monumental Tug-of-War: America’s National Monuments May Be the Latest Targets in the Partisan Policy Back-and-Forth
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 19, 2021
One Person’s Trash Is Another’s Energy
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 18, 2021
It’s Not Always Greener on the Other Side: Challenges to Environmental Marketing Claims
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 28, 2021
No, Dolphins Did Not Reappear in Venice Canals: The Effects of COVID-19 on the Environment
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 14, 2021
Carbon Copy Critters: Cloned Species and the Endangered Species Act
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 28, 2021
America Is Ready to Fight Climate Change. Is the Grid?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 13, 2021
Regulatory Agencies Spring Into Action After Supreme Court Decides Dusky Gopher Frog Case
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 7, 2020
“IceBreaker” Freshwater Offshore Wind Project Cracks Through Regulatory Jam
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 7, 2020
Extracting Favors: Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Using the Pandemic to Lobby for Regulatory Rollbacks and Financial Bailouts
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 17, 2020
A Cold-Blooded Cure: How COVID-19 Could Decimate Already Fragile Shark Populations
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 10, 2020
Turning the Sky Orange and the Lights Off: West Coast Wildfires Diminish Solar Power Generation
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 23, 2020
COVID-19: Substantiating the Impacts of Environmental Racism
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, May 15, 2020
A Rising Tool in International Climate Litigation: The Right to Life
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, May 15, 2020
COVID-19: Detrimental to Humans, Beneficial to the Environment?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 20, 2020
Davos Attendees Seek Political Cover Under 1 Trillion Trees
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 16, 2020
A Green New City Plan? How Local Governments Should Plan for Climate Refugees
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 19, 2019
Controversial Community Solar Garden Program Is a Target of Minnesota’s 2019 Legislative Session
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 8, 2019
Seasteading
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 1, 2019
The Environmental Costs of Amazon
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 25, 2019
Renewable Energy vs. National Parks
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 6, 2019
In Space We Trust: Regulate the Race
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 28, 2018
The Great Minnesota Divide: Can a Solution to Address the Urban/Rural Split Over Copper-Nickel Mining Come From Conservation Efforts Abroad?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 22, 2018
Sulfur-Ore Mining in Minnesota: Are Near-Term Economic Gains Worth Long-Term Losses?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 15, 2018
California’s Sport Venue Boom: A Weakening of CEQA?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 6, 2018
Big Houses With Big Energy Demands
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 1, 2018
Perpetuating Inequality and Illness Through Environmental Injustice
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 30, 2017
Farm Drainage Revisited: Will Tile-Drain Effluent Be Considered a Point Source and Fall Under Clean Water Act Regulation?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 26, 2017
Drinking the Kool-Aid? Why We Might Want to Talk About Our Road Salt
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 1, 2016
Haiti, Hurricanes and Holes in Disaster Law
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 31, 2016
Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 27, 2016
Bottom-Up Approach to Climate Change
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 6, 2016
Five-Year Extension May “Put the Falls Back in River Falls”
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 6, 2016
Renewable Energy Accounts for Majority of New Energy Technology Installed in 2015 but Remains a Minority Producer Overall
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 6, 2016
The Path of Pollutants Under the Clean Water Act
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 19, 2016
Circumventing EPA Regulations Through Computer Programs
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 16, 2015
EPA Revises Agricultural Worker Protection Standard, to the Disappointment of Agriculture Industry Groups
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 13, 2015
UN Countries Strive to Develop Legal Framework for Climate Deal
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 28, 2015
H.R.8 and the Hydropower Improvement Act of 2015—Another Missed Opportunity
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 28, 2015
Shape Up or Ship Out: E.P.A. Forced to Reevaluate Their General Ballast Water Regulation Permit
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 20, 2015
Honeybee Protection in the Ninth Circuit
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 13, 2015
An Injunction in the Des Moines Water Works Lawsuit Won’t Hurt Farmers, Here’s Why Not
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 15, 2015
Awaiting an Important Decision on the Gulf of New Mexico “Dead Zone” Lawsuit
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 5, 2015
Recent Developments Affecting the “Fracking” Industry
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 11, 2015
Could Changes for NEPA Be on the Horizon
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 11, 2015
Expert Testimony May Put BP in Deepwater as It Enters the Trial’s Penalty Phase
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 29, 2015
State Agency Deference Under PURPA
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 29, 2015
Small-Scale Hydropower Provides Renewed Hope for Energy Policy
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 20, 2015
Driving Under the Influence: Recent Legal Developments in Cellulosic Ethanol Industry
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 16, 2015
Republicans Win, Earth Loses
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 22, 2014
Localized Climate Change: A Glance at the Minneapolis Climate Action Plan
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 22, 2014
Will Sodsaver Save the Prairie Pothole Region?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 16, 2014
BP’s Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill Litigation Drags on in the Eastern District of Louisiana
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 12, 2014
Guest Commentary – Climate Change: Is Anyone Ever Going to Do Anything About It?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 3, 2014
Making It Personal: The Key to Climate Change Action
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 22, 2013
Mucking Up the Clean Air Act
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 26, 2013
The Bayou Corne Sinkhole: A New Test for the Gulf Region’s Post-Deepwater Strategy?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 25, 2013
Juggling GMOs: Balancing Benefits, Risks, & Unknowns
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 26, 2012
Juggling GMOs: Balancing Benefits, Risks, & Unknowns
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 26, 2012
Wasted Places Report Elucidates Key Problem in Current Environmental Legal and Regulatory Infrastructure
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 8, 2012
Being Green by Helping the Giants Beat the Eagles
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 20, 2012
Got GMOs?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 17, 2012
Hurricane Highlights Need for Better Regulatory Tools
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 13, 2012