Patrick Schlesinger (he/him), Environmental Law Review Staffer, Fordham Law 2026 The Court’s Decision On March 4th, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency. The
Read Full ArticleBy Reyna Lee, ELR Senior Staffer, Fordham University School of Law, Class of 2026 On November 7, 2025, New York and New Jersey state officials approved a proposal for a pipeline project that the New
Read Full ArticlePatrick Schlesinger (he/him), ELR Staffer, Class of 2026 The seafloor can be an efficient trap for pollutants, but what results when that floor is dredged, and the pollutants scattered? This is the question posed by
Read Full ArticleAri Blemur, Senior Staff Member, 3L The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) reached a 5-4 decision in City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection Agency on March 4th, 2025 to
Read Full ArticleKaeli Brennan, ELR Staff Member, Class of 2027 With half a million acres of New Jersey’s coastline classified as highly vulnerable to coastal hazards such as erosion, harmful algal blooms, big storms, flooding, tsunamis, and
Read Full ArticleBreanna Brown, Fordham Environmental Law Review Staffer, Class of 2027 Bearing striking similarities to the housing bubble that triggered the Great Recession, climate change has created a new crisis in the American real estate market.
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Michael A. Meloro Jr., ELR Staff ‘26 With increasing pressure on zoning mechanisms in suburbs and urban areas alike, some areas–such as Cambridge, Massachusetts–are doing away with single-family housing altogether. However, the wholesale eradication of
Read Full ArticleRoberto Leito ELR Staffer, 3LE (2026) They’re everywhere: in your cookware, clothes, food, and drinking water. PFAS—“per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances”—are a group of 15,000 synthetic chemicals that make up non-stick pans, stain and water-resistant clothing,
Read Full ArticleRachel Arone (she/her), Class of 2025 In August, the EPA rejected Food and Water Watch’s petition to revise the Clean Water Act, which urged the EPA to impose greater restrictions on water pollution from factory
Read Full ArticleAmelia Lembeck (she/her), Class of ’24 In the summer of 2022, the city of Jackson, Mississippi experienced a drinking water crisis. The water shortage was the latest in a long series of issues with Jackson’s
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