Guest contributor Clifford Villa is law professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law. With all eyes on Suncor ...

The National Defense Act was a Korean war measure. As behooves a wartime law, it seems to contemplate fairly heavy-handed economic control by the government. (If we were ever to get a truly socialist ...

Oral arguments in the climate case before the Supreme Court gave hints to possible outcomes. But one of Boulder’s strong answers to the “tort suits are regulation” objection went unmade. The Supreme ...

In issuing its new CAFE standards, the government has used great ingenuity to sabotage a law while proclaiming the opposite.

To me the most important change in environmental law from the permitting reform bill is the effort to restrict remedies for NEPA violations.  I’ve written before about why I think this is important ...

Last week, about halfway down the New York Times’ Monday morning newsletter, there was a video titled “Living Next to ...

After a suspenseful few weeks, we’re excited to see that yesterday, Governor Newsom signed into law two key bills that will ...

The bipartisan permitting reform bill – at least the Senate version – is out.  You can see it here.  My initial take on the bill is below, and I hope to do some more detailed examination of specific ...

Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping shocked retired American teacher Ron Sakolsky by mentioning him in a toast at a White ...