environmental-law

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01441-8 Legal rights for insects: a global imperative for stingless-bee conservation

The ordinances read like a bill of rights for a pollinator. Courts must now consider damage to the species and the forest, not only human losses.

Shrimali Sangita Pravinbhai, Researcher, Gokul Global University Rakesh Thakor, Researcher, Sardar Patel University Dr. Alpesh Patel, Gokul Global University (Guide) ABSTRACT Environmental crimes, including illegal deforestation, wildlife trafficking, industrial pollution, and the improper disposal of hazardous waste, pose severe threats to ecological stability and human well-being. These crimes …

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Metzger has been promoted to Director of the Sabin Center’s Cities Climate Law Initiative. In this role, Daniel will continue to research legal tools that cities and other local governments can use to advance climate mitigation and adaptation. In addition to his academic research, Daniel will also work […]

This study examines environmental criticism as a contemporary analytical approach and explores its relationship with environmental law. It adopts a comparative analytical framework to assess the extent of convergence and divergence between ecocritical principles and legal rules governing environmental protection. The study identifies key elements of environmental criticism and traces their presen…

Niranjan Baghwar, Jharkhand Rai University Ankita Toppo, Jharkhand Rai University ABSTRACT Jharkhand is home to one of India's largest tribal populations, yet tribal communities continue to lose their land at an alarming rate, not because the law fails to protect them, but because the institutions meant to enforce that law have collapsed under the weight of systemic dysfunction. This article exam…

The 1990s marked a critical decade in the global recognition of climate change and its impacts. The 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil stands out as a decisive turning point, with states from across the world adopting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In doing so, they acknowledged that high-income countries bear greater responsibility for climate change due...

Jeevananth M, School of Law, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai ABSTRACT During the early 1990s, India opened its markets, drawing a massive wave of global companies that completely transformed the country’s business landscape. While this outside funding boosted development and wealth, it also uncovered serious weaknesses in the nation’s ecological protections. This …

Ms. Ananya Bhargava, Amity Law School, Amity University, Noida ABSTRACT The recent rise in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing has revolutionized financial markets, although it has also increased the risk of greenwashing, or false or overstated sustainability reporting by companies. This paper re-conceptualizes the notion of greenwashing as not only a problem of the environment,…

Sonika Yadav, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Amity University Lucknow Dr. Rohit Kumar Shukla, Assistant Professor of Law, Amity University Lucknow ABSTRACT India has developed a robust constitutional framework for environmental protection through judicial interpretation of Articles 21, 48A and 51A(g). Despite this, the country continues to witness severe air pollution, contaminated rivers, deforestation and…

M. Chenbaga Sree, LL.B. (Hons), Joy University, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu ABSTRACT Constitutionalism in India establishes an essential framework that connects environmental protection with inter generational justice, ensuring natural resources are managed wisely — today — so future generations inherit a thriving, livable planet. This paper asserts that the Preamble of the Indian Constituti…

How the Supreme Court rules could have implications for tens of thousands of lawsuits against Roundup maker Monsanto, which is now owned by Bayer.

Featuring Jonathan Levy, Professor of History, Sciences Po Paris, Centre for History Abstract: This talk is drawn from a book-in-progress on the history of climate change in the city of Houston in the […]

Dheeraj Bhatt, Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Amity Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (AIALS) ABSTRACT Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has emerged as a significant instrument of corporate environmental governance in India, tasked with shifting the burden of end-of-life waste management from public authorities to private producers. Operationalised through a suite of subordinate le…

Priyal, Research Scholar, Department of Laws, University of Jammu ABSTRACT The concept of development, encompassing progress has long been intertwined with India’s discourse on environmental concerns. Despite being a common heritage, the environment has suffered significant degradation and ecological imbalances in the pursuit of development, particularly exacerbated since India’s shift from plann…

Published on April 24, 2026 6:37 AM GMT People v. Hsiung demonstrates our judicial system's reluctance to grapple with industrial animal agriculture. “Counsel, is it true that 800,000 hens reside on this farm?” 1 Justice Jackson of the California Court of Appeal began today’s oral argument with this very question. The case before her is People v. Hsiung —an appeal of Wayne Hsiung’s conviction for…

Earlier this week, on April 21, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts enjoined five secretarial orders issued by the Department of the Interior (“DOI”) and U.S. Army Corps (“USACE”) that collectively imposed sweeping constraints on wind and solar development across the United States. The Sabin Center’s Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative […]

The case is part of a messy legal dispute about a section of the Line 5 energy pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel The supreme court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an ageing pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court that the Enbridge energy company w…

Introduction As a British judge with a special interest in environmental law, I have over the last two decades taken a particular interest in the developing role of the courts across the world in response to the challenges of climate change. In this article I shall look back at my perceptions of the responses of […]

Regulating carbon dioxide capture and storage De Figueiredo, Mark A. This essay examines several legal, regulatory and organizational issues that need to be addressed to create an effective regulatory regime for carbon dioxide capture and storage ("CCS"). Legal, regulatory, and organizational issues will need to be resolved for the industrial organization of CO2 transportation and storage, storag…