YLR: The Legal Landscape Surrounding Climate Change

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 12:29 a.m.

We have a slew of environmental issues ranging from climate change, to mountaintop removal mining, to the nationwide fracking boom. We have environmental laws responding to some of these issues, but many claim that the laws or their enforcement is inadequate. So, in recent years, in addition to pressing the federal government and state governments to regulate climate change emissions under the traditional environmental statutes, like the Clean Air Act, people have turned to the courts. Why is