Crystal Larios, ELR Staffer, Class of 2027 While United States immigration law provides some avenues for those facing hardships in other countries to seek refuge in the United States, those escaping climate disasters have few
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 ArticleMarcus Lerner, ELR Staffer FLS ‘27 On October 23rd, 2025, the Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum announced that the Trump administration would open the entire 1.56 million-acre coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic
Read Full ArticleJesse Kaplan, ELR Staffer FLS ‘27 Many companies and the federal government are implementing back-to-work initiatives, but often overlook their negative impact on the environment. Full-time remote workers reduce carbon emissions by 54%, and even
Read Full ArticleEliza Oehmler, ELR Staffer, ‘27 The U.S. government just ended its longest shutdown ever. Although government shutdowns inherently affect the environment due to scalebacks of the workforce, the Trump Administration took advantage of this recent
Read Full ArticleBriana Al-Omoush, ELR Staffer, Fordham Law 2027 Digital Assets and Carbon: From Speculation to Sustainability? As cryptocurrency evolves from speculative finance to infrastructure for digital goods, blockchain innovators, such as Toucan Protocol, Carbonplace, and Flowcarbon,
Read Full ArticleBy Peyton Torgan, ELR Staffer, Class of 2027 This past July, the EPA released a proposal to rescind its 2009 Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean
Read Full ArticleBy Niamh Sponholz (Fordham Law ‘27) From Pokémon’s Viridian Forest to Vanishing Habitats in Real Life When Pokémon players first arrive at the Viridian Forest, they are submerged in a beautiful, lush forest full of
Read Full ArticleKayla Lewis ELR Staffer FLS ‘27 As of March 14, 2025, ChatGPT has 400 million weekly active users and 122.58 million daily users. Since its public release on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT has become one
Read Full ArticleJahneka Cassells Class of 2026 New York has spent billions combating climate change and will continue to do so. At the end of 2024, New York was the second state (behind Vermont) to enact a
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