Volume 32 * 2008 * Number 2 http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/ en-us Copyright 2008 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. There is growing impetus for a domestic climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In this article, I propose and analyze a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically feasible approach for the United States to reduce its contributions to the increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/Stavins%20Final%20Final.pdf Until the most recent blink of human time, Indian tribes exercised territorial sovereignty over nearly all of the land on this continent — two billion acres. Nature was abundant and, for the most part, in a state of remarkable balance. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/Wood%20Final%20Final.pdf More than fifty years ago, Harold Lasswell proposed the development of policy sciences that, by producing knowledge for the resolution of pressing public policy issues, would minimize unproductive political debates by mediating among academics, officials, and citizens. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/Shapiro%20Final%20Final.pdf Prior to the 1970s, America valued land and resources as economic commodities. During the past three decades, however, natural resources and land, especially wild lands, seem more attractive for their recreational and preservationist potential.1 Traditional economic commodities, such as timber, minerals, and livestock, are increasingly deemed less valuable than the raw land on which, and in which, these resources are located. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/Laitos%20Final%20Final.pdf In late summer of 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita blew through the Gulf Coast region of the United States, culminating in the largest natural disaster in U.S. history. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/Button%20Final%20Final.pdf Most people leave school with a simple understanding of the relationship between British and American colonists, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the lands of the “New World”: the colonists wanted it, the natives had it, and the colonists used whatever means available to take it. In his new book, Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska, Professor Stuart Banner dives into this familiar history and shows his readers that while these traditional assumptions do have merit, the story of the Pacific is not as simple as it may first seem. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/Lorincz%20Final%20Final.pdf http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/staff.php http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_2/index.php How does distributive justice for short, equity bear on the regulation of health and safety risks? http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/Adler.pdf Interstate environmental harms, which occur when decisions or actions in one state produce negative environmental impacts in another state, have challenged environmental law and American federalism for over a century. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/Hall.pdf For the past 35 years, the conflicting goals, standards, focuses, and methods of United States species protection laws and United States pesticide law have produced a fierce legal battle. The unwitting casualties of this battle are the millions of birds, fish, and other wildlife that have been killed, and the hundreds of protected species put at risk of extinction. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/Angelo.pdf Abandoned hardrock mines dot the western landscape. In some places, the only sign of their existence is an inconspicuous dark hole in a canyon wall; in other places, their gaping pits terrace the ground like gargantuan amphitheaters, ready to seat the Sears Tower with ease. These mines have yielded billions of tons of ore and massive quantities of valuable metals and minerals, from gold and silver to zinc, lead, and even asbestos. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/Lounsbury.pdf In late summer of 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita blew through the Gulf Coast region of the United States, culminating in the largest natural disaster in U.S. history. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/Tran.pdf Under the Clean Water Act, states may assume control of the NPDES permitting process; to date, forty-six states have done so. In that light, National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife,1 in which the Supreme Court held that EPA need not consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act before delegating that authority, seems to be of little import. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/mapes.pdf In 1980, Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund Act) to address the growing number of toxic and hazardous waste sites around the United States. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/Yeboah.pdf The HELR staff for 32-1 http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol32_1/staff.php