Environment, Law, and History

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday . An excerpt: The CWA as enacted a half-century ...

Ecology Law Quarterly  recently published a student note by Emma Hamilton, "A Relic of the Past or the Future of Environmental Crimin...

This week's installment in the digital library of environmental law moves ahead to the twentieth century with Carl E. Geuther's Com...

UC Davis recently hosted a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the California Air Resources Board . Richard Frank reports at Legal Pl...

Hauling crude oil to a refinery in Casper, Wyoming, c. 1900 (Casper College Western History Center) Dan Farber at Legal Planet  posted t...

The McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law recently published an article by Jamie Benidickson, "The Evolution of Canadian Water ...

(Sorry for the long silence, I've been busy with some other things. As always, if you're interested in contributing posts to the bl...

Ed Mendoza of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona (photo: Monica Almeida/NYT) Dylan Hedden-Nicely recently posted "The Legisla...

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company’s Campbell Works, Youngstown, Ohio (c. 1960) Ohio Valley History  recently published Allen Dieterich-W...

Speaking of Julian Juergensmeyer , it's worth taking a look back at an article he and Anita Morse published in the 1968 Valparaiso Law R...

The October 2014 issue of Environmental History  has a lot of law in it. We'll start with Jonathan Wlasiuk's "A Company Town on...

The 50th anniversary of the US Wilderness Act of 1964 continues to spark interest. H-Environment recently posted a review by Sarah Mittlefe...

[Today we have a guest post from Frederico Freitas , a Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American History at Stanford, who recently presented a paper...

Oliver Houck recently published  "Cooperative Federalism, Nutrients, and the Clean Water Act: Three Cases Revisited"  in the Envir...

Michael Blumm has posted "The Struggle Over the Columbia River Gorge: Establishing and Governing the First National Scenic Area" ,...

As noted here last month , Joel Tarr presented a very interesting paper on the regulation of natural gas drilling in nineteenth-century Penn...

SSRN has "Recovering from the Recovery Narrative: On Glocalism, Green Jobs and Cyborg Civilization" , another paper from Michael B...

H-Environment recently posted  a review  by  Bill Sharpsteen  of   John A. Hoornbeek, Water Pollution Policies and the American States: Run...