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Public Participation in the Coronavirus Age
How governments can ensure transparency and public access to information while social distancing continues.
How governments can ensure transparency and public access to information while social distancing continues.
The president’s ongoing war on science has significantly weakened researchers’ ability to respond to COVID-19 and other looming public health and environmental crises.
While hiding inconvenient facts may not be the intention behind EPA’s COVID-19 policy, it could very well be its effect.
Five U.S. tribes claim that climate change compromises their human rights, including rights to life, health, housing, water, sanitation, and a healthy environment.
Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. Here are 12 ways the law can help society cope with these impacts.
A new report documents 94 attempts by the Trump Administration to undermine climate protections in 2017 and 2018—and finds that the courts have largely constrained these rollbacks.
Testifying before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Columbia’s Mike Gerrard suggested ways to the reduce the legal hurdles of building renewable energy projects on public lands.
A new article co-authored by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law provides key recommendations on how to change flood insurance for a changing climate.
Climate change will pose many challenges for small island states — and shrinking maritime boundaries would only make matters worse, argues one climate lawyer.
Climate change lawyers break down the key arguments and points of contention for “the trial of the century.”