Environmental Law Prof Blog

Features environmental law issues including climate change, air and water quality and sustainability, along with a host of other environmental law-related news and topics.

Author: Susan L. Smith, a law professor at Willamette University College of Law, edits the Environmental Law Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professors Blog Network.

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Recent Posts from Environmental Law Prof Blog

Report on Climate Change Impacts in the US
On June 16, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the NOAA-led study, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States" - which it describes as a "state of knowledge" report about current and project…
Haiti and the environment
The first thing that anyone learns about Haiti and the environment is that Haiti is the most deforested country in the world, having shifted from 60% forest cover to less than 2% forest cover. And…
I'm back
My last post was from before my early summer travels. Since then, I spent 10 days going to and from the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's Natural Resources Law Teacher's conference in Chico Hot Springs,…
The Washington Post reported today on the Iqbal case alleging that former attorney general John Ash croft and FBI Director Robert Mueller knew that the prison guards holding Arab Muslims swept up after the September…
How Green is Our Recovery?
The economic recovery packages put forward by many countries spend lots of money, but a key question is whether the packages will have a beneficial impact on greening the global economy. Although few contain adequate…
New Method to Address Corruption in Developing Countries?
Corruption and poor governance are generally recognized as a key obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic development as well as realizing human rights in many developing countries. The…
Total emisions approach - accurate but not novel and a flawed basis for policy
As this report on the new studies published in Nature indicates, the global warming problem is and always has been understood to be a matter of the total loadings of GHG emissions in the atmosphere,…
WHO update May 3
May 3 Confirmed cases Austria: 1 Canada: 70 Costa Rica: 1 Denmark: 1 France: 2 Germany: 6 Hong Kong: 1 Ireland: 1 Israel: 3 Mexico: 506 and 19 deaths Netherlands: 1 New Zealand: 4 South…
Jurist Op-Ed by Ed Richards about Adequacy of Existing Public Health Laws
Fighting H1N1: Why Laws are Not the Answer Jurist link JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Richards of Louisiana State University Law Center says that in the midst of current concerns about the spread of the H1N1…
Oregon H1N1 flu update - May 2nd
H1N1 influenza 4 p.m. update __________________________________________________________________________ Cases: As of late Saturday, Oregon had identified eleven probable cases of H1N1 influenza virus with additional specimens being tested at the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory in Hillsboro.…