Reducing Carbon Emissions While Addressing Environmental Concerns in Wisconsin Matthew Magill On December 12, 2015, 195 nations capped the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) with the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, an international treaty designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.[1] The treaty seeks to limit global temperature increases below 2°C above pre-industrial… Continue reading M. Magill – Winter 2025
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C. Segarra – Winter 2025
Don’t Fear the Federal Shake-Up, States Can Still Enforce Regulations Curtis Segarra As new federal administrators take the reins over the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), switching up leadership over top oil-producing states like Texas and New Mexico, it’s not clear how federal policing over emissions may change in the near future.[1] For example, Scott Mason… Continue reading C. Segarra – Winter 2025
R. Segal -Winter 2025
Effective and Uncredited: Women and Environmental Actions Riley Segal Public knowledge about changes in environmental legislation is often limited to new policies and the topics they address. Though actors such as the Environmental Protection Agency and movements like environmental justice have become recognizable terms in the legal sphere and everyday life, many of the people… Continue reading R. Segal -Winter 2025
Coyle – Winter 2025
New York’s Congestion Pricing Program Through An Environmental Lens Isabel Coyle According to an inventory prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation accounted for 28 percent of direct greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S in 2022.[1] On January 5, 2025, New York City implemented the “Central Business District Tolling Program,” commonly known as congestion pricing,… Continue reading Coyle – Winter 2025
B. Foster- Winter 2025
Marin Audubon Society and its Potential Impact on the Future of NEPA Benjamin Foster In November 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration. The Court went beyond the scope of the arguments made to hold that the White House Council on Environmental… Continue reading B. Foster- Winter 2025
Magill-Fall 2024
Renewed Energy Politics: An Analysis of Renewable Portfolio Standards in Swing States Matthew Magill During the 2024 United States presidential election, energy policy took on renewed importance as a key issue for voters. The September 10, 2024 presidential debate included an extended exchange over the candidates’ respective positions on energy development in the battleground state… Continue reading Magill-Fall 2024
Weaver – Winter 2024
The People Over Parking Act: A Double-Edged Sword David Weaver Minimum Parking Regulations (MPRs) are provisions within municipal zoning codes that require developers to build a minimum number of parking spaces to receive permission to build, expand, or change a building’s primary use.[1] While MPRs are designed to reduce traffic congestion, they actually create worse… Continue reading Weaver – Winter 2024
Raffaele – Winter 2024
Zoning Impacts on Vehicle Miles Traveled: The Cases of Fayetteville and Birmingham Aidan Raffaele As the discourse and research around climate change and its effects develops,[1] city governments have emerged as an increasingly useful agent of change.[2] The federal government and state governments are seen more and more as slow-moving in regards to the climate… Continue reading Raffaele – Winter 2024
Spinner – Winter 2024
Carbon Credits: A History and Potential Future Evan Spinner In the last several years, as carbon capture technology has developed, various nations and global companies have come to see it as a solution to the climate crisis. Carbon credits have existed as a tool to address climate change for much longer than their recent spotlight… Continue reading Spinner – Winter 2024
O’Hara – Winter 2024
Going Green in the Deep Blue: How Bermuda Uses Economic and Community Engagement to Support Sustainability Madilynn O’Hara Nestled between the world’s northernmost coral reefs in the vast Sargasso Sea, Bermuda is home to just sixty-five thousand residents and thousands of unique marine species. Both Bermudians’ way of life and the ecological stability of the… Continue reading O’Hara – Winter 2024