The People's Environmental Law

Trump Wants to Gut Crucial Environmental Regulation - The Nation

NEPA is a major target in the White House's war on regulations. Activists have used it to thwart federal approval of a few high-profile projects ...

NEPA, the “Magna Carta” of Federal Environmental Laws, May Be ...

Section 101 of the statute states the aim of the law simply: “to create and maintain conditions under which [people] and nature can exist in ...

Chapter 2: What Is Environmental Justice?

Environmental justice is the fair treatment of people of all races, income, and cultures with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of ...

Environmental Justice For All Act 117th Congress (2021-2022)

To restore, reaffirm, and reconcile environmental justice and civil rights, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of ...

LibGuides: Climate Change and Environmental Law Guide: U.S. Law

Covers a broad range of issues including carbon trading, NEPA, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, energy and the environment, and recent issues ...

Top 10 Environmental Law Decisions of 2021 | UC Davis

Protecting the environment is the right thing to do for people and the planet, and it's also the law. Environmental laws regulate ...

Environmental Justice | Department of Energy

President Biden's Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.”.

Office of Environmental Justice - Pennsylvania DEP

It further involves the prevention of future environmental injustice, and the redress of historic environmental injustice, and the centering of environmentally ...

Environmental Democracy & Access Rights

Environmental democracy is based on the idea that land and natural resource decisions adequately and equitably address citizens' interests.

IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law 2021-2025

The mission of the WCEL is to assure through the environmental rule of law, the proper valuation, conservation, restoration and sustainable use of nature ...

The Unbearable Whiteness of Environmental Law

The article highlights the many disproportionate environmental burdens imposed on racial and ethnic minorities and Indigenous peoples in the US.

The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 ...

“This is a very aggressive attempt to rewrite our laws and reinterpret the meaning of environmental protections,” said Hana V. Vizcarra, a staff ...

We're Supporting the New, Stronger NEPA Regulations Against a ...

NEPA requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impacts of their actions, creating a critical framework for the government to ...

Environmental Justice | State of California

Under state law: “[E]nvironmental justice” means the fair treatment of people of all races, cultures, and ...

China's Environmental Abuses - United States Department of State

China is indisputably the world's largest consumer of legal and illegal wildlife, and it was identified as a Focus Country under the Eliminate, Neutralize, and ...

Solutions start in the South - Southern Environmental Law Center

With a long track record, we take on the toughest environmental challenges in court, in government, and in our communities to protect our region's air, water, ...

Community Rights - Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

CELDF's partner communities are enacting local rights-based laws that explicitly demand action at the state and federal levels. For example, in 2017, Lincoln ...

The Environmental Justice Movement - NRDC

Environmental justice is an important part of the struggle to improve and maintain a clean and healthful environment, especially for communities of color.

The US can't achieve environmental justice through one-size-fits-all ...

But it is also a story of “one-size-fits-all” policy instead of equity and justice. Even as environmental legislation has reduced overall ...

The Modern Environmental Movement | American Experience - PBS

The first piece of legislation to lay down federal regulation of water quality, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, is passed by Congress. This act, known ...