Sep 9, 2024 | Environmental Law, North America, September 2024
Over the last two years, several court decisions weakened the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to tackle pollution and climate change [1]. It dates back to the 2022 West Virginia vs EPA case, when courts applied the major questions doctrine (MQD),...
Sep 11, 2023 | Law & Justice
The environmental legal rights movement began in the 1970s, when justice William Orville Douglas stated in his dissenting opinion that ‘trees have standing’ too, in the case of Sierra Club V Morton [1]. At this time, the notion that natural resources ought...
Feb 16, 2023 | Environmental Law
What is Ecocide and why is it important? The ecocide concept emerged in the 1970s after the devastating effects of Agent Orange and other chemical herbicides on populations in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during the Vietnam War [1]. Since then, the definition...
Oct 27, 2022 | Environmental Law, Law & Justice
How is Environmental Protection defined in English Criminal Law? Why does this differ from the usual definitions of criminal responsibility? Within the ordinary scope of English Criminal Law, there are two primary forms of criminal responsibility: the physical act of...
