The public trust doctrine in America derives from common law, and each new state became the trustee following independence. The public trust doctrine gives the state the right to sue for natural resource damage, among ...

Tribal governments are developing and implementing federally authorized and/or approved tribal environmental programs in the areas of water quality, air quality, and solid waste. As part of this federal delegation process ...

This article argues that the hunting of endangered and threatened species for mere “sport” should be outlawed and that the trans-border transportation of parts of trophy-hunted animals should be more closely examined and ...

For two decades, courts in the Ninth Circuit enforced the so-called Federal Defendant Rule, under which intervention as of right was prohibited in cases brought under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Ninth ...

The definition of invasive species is not consistent between federal and state laws. Current invasive species legislation overwhelmingly harbors inadequate definitions and is unable to serve enumerated environmental ...

View rights litigation is fairly uncommon in most of the United States because, in the common law, there simply is no right to a view. However, in hilly coastal areas, like Southern California’s beach cities, view rights ...

The Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (“KBRA”) and the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (“KHSA”) emerged in 2010 in response to ongoing ecosystem calamities in southwestern Oregon and northern California. Parties ...

Water is undoubtedly one of our most precious resources, and the western United States is expected to face increasing scarcity as the climate continues to change and more people flock to arid cities like Los Angeles and ...