Month: April 2025

Collaboration and Competition: Antitrust Law Through an Environmental Lens Dana Chen             Coordination among firms is traditionally viewed as a violation of antitrust laws, but it can also have benefits for furthering social welfare goals, such as addressing climate change. For example in 2017, a group of over 600 investors launched Climate Action 100+, an… Continue reading Chen – Winter 2025

NOT Blowin’ in the Wind[1] Ben Korn Just under 30 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the wind is blowing.[2] The consistent gusts have attracted the attention of the state’s public energy utility, Dominion Energy, as it builds the largest offshore wind farm in the mid-Atlantic region, comprising 176 turbines.[3] Once completed, the… Continue reading Korn – Winter 2025

Wading Into Wetlands: How Sackett v. EPA Unleashed the Threat of Increasing Flood Risk Through Wetland Development Andrew Capps             The Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency[1] is the most recent development in the Court’s forty years of judicial wrangling of the meaning of “waters of the United States” in the Clean… Continue reading Capps- Winter 2025

The Decline of the Administrative State and its Potential Effects on Tribal Sovereignty Manuel Lewis* I. Abstract The federal government of the United States, including federal agencies, owes a trust responsibility to Tribes. The contemporary federal administrative state has given greater authority over agency decisions to the federal judiciary while simultaneously reducing government funding for… Continue reading Lewis-Winter 2025