Environmental law – The Conversation

Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.

Inconsistent laws and penalties for water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin make compliance and enforcement especially challenging. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

While the summit’s program is well-defined, it’s much harder to know what’s going on behind closed doors.

The Liberals have faced an existential crisis over climate and energy policy while the government races to get its environmental laws through parliament.

Resource laws and processes have tried to keep politics out of decision making. But this technocratic approach carries its own problems. The challenge is getting the balance right.

Legal scholars say the law has its merits, but find loopholes in the way it defines ecocide.

Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.

Hopes for environmental law reform during the current term of federal government have been dashed, so what lies ahead for ‘nature positive’ next term?

One of the most liberal US cities is offering the Supreme Court a chance to further restrict federal regulatory power.

The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in federal laws over the past 55 years.

The Supreme Court will consider how far outward federal agencies should look when they analyze how a proposed action could affect the environment.

By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.

With only one sitting week of Parliament left this year, the environment minister reveals the compromises he’s willing to make and the hard lines he won’t cross to get the deal done.

What does Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s political discourse say about the controversial US secretary of Health whose task is to make “America healthy again”?

San Francisco argued that Clean Water Act permits should function like recipes that restrict specific ingredients in a dish, rather than telling cooks not to make the dish too salty.

America was once the global leader in rare earth element production, but as processing moved to China, the US lost capacity and expertise. It can get them back.

While it’s easy to demonise environmentalists for using the courts to further their causes, a fundamental part of any democracy is access to the legal system.

The Supreme Court drastically reduced federal protection for wetlands in 2023. Two environmental lawyers explain how private businesses and nongovernment organizations can help fill the gap.

Two legal experts explore the arrest and potential extradition of Sea Shepherd Founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson on a Japanese warrant from 2010.