Environment, Law, and History

In Custodia Legis  recently carried an interesting post by Sayuri Umeda on the history of the elimination of leaded gas in Japan . Among oth...

The latest issue of Environmental History  has an article by Evan Hepler-Smith, "Molecular Bureaucracy: Toxicological Information and E...

Legal History Blog recently published brief pieces by scholars visiting at Princeton's Davis Center this year, in which they wrote abou...

January's Environmental History  has a review by Leif Fredrickson of Michael Mix's  Leaded: The Poisoning of Idaho’s Silver Valley ...

October's Environmental History  had a review by Erik Loomis of Adam Tompkins's  Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns ...

This past summer H-Environment published a Roundtable Review of Richard Newman's Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the ...

Symbolic Petition of Chippewa Chiefs, presented at Washington, January 28, 1849, headed by Oshcabawis of Monomonecau, Wisconsi n In the ...

The recent Environmental History  has a review by David Stradling of Susan Rankin Bohme's  Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of ...

Virginia Zaunbrecher at Legal Planet has an interesting post putting the Flint, Michigan lead crisis in historical context, noting, among o...

Brittany Fremion recently reviewed Ellen Griffith Spears, Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town (UNC Pres...

Legal Planet's Jonathan Zasloff recently noted the publication of Josiah Rector's "Environmental Justice at Work: The UAW, the...

George Conk recently blogged on the passing of epidemiologist Mervyn Susser, 92 . Susser wrote, among other things, on the problem of causa...

H-Environment recently re-posted a 2012  roundtable review of Nancy Langston's  Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES ...

Perhaps the most litigated environmental issue in US history is harm from asbestos. In the latest issue of Environmental Justice  James Rice...