Wildfire smoke: what do we know?
This post is the first in a series of blog posts about wildfire smoke. Wildfire smoke is no longer a regional concern. This summer, wildfire—a frequent phenomenon in the West—drew […]
The Law and “Supertrees
Ragini Gupta, CLB Student Fellow—LLM (Environmental Law and Policy, ’23) This post will discuss some legal issues related to genetically engineered trees. While raising some questions, the post does not […]
Part II: Genetic Diversity Loss and Financial Risk
Ragini Gupta, CLB Student Fellow—LLM (Environmental Law and Policy, ’23) In Part I of this post, I provided an overview of some of the legal issues arising from loss of […]
Genetic Diversity Loss: Financial Risks Part I
Ragini Gupta, CLB Student Fellow—LLM (Environmental Law and Policy, ’23) 10 percent of the world’s terrestrial genetic diversity may already be lost, due to climate change and habitat destruction. Part […]
Buzz Thompson, Stanford University’s Buzz Thompson, on the Colorado River Deal with Ongoing Challenges
On May 22, a tentative deal to reduce water use by entities drawing from the Colorado River was reached, averting near-term potential disaster and predictions that the river could all […]
Environmental Law Clinic Weighs in on EPA’s Effort to Reduce Light-Duty Vehicle Emissions
On March 3, the Environmental Law Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the International Council on Clean Transportation in a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals case dealing with […]
Spillover Risk in Environmental Impact Assessment: Preventing the Next Pandemic?
Ragini Gupta, LLM student We think of the HIV/AIDS epidemic as having begun around the 1980s, which is when the CDC first reported symptoms of a deadly pneumonia in clusters […]
Environmental Law Clinic Advocates for Federal Ban on Leaded Aviation Gasoline
Yesterday, advanced clinic student Sydney Speizman spoke on behalf of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic client County of Santa Clara at a public hearing before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
In Challenge to Toxic Rodenticide, Wildlife Advocates Win Favorable CEQA Decision
A California Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of Stanford Environmental Law Clinic client, Raptors Are The Solution, finding that the discovery of new scientific information on the rat […]