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Last week, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) case. The key question in the case was whether an EIS for a rail spur needed...

01 Jun 2025 10:33pm GMT

On March 11, 2025, ExxonMobil filed a petition for certiorari in the case ExxonMobil Corp. v. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby, Inc. The petition seeks to drastically alter the requirements for establishing injury and redressability under Article III standing. If successful,...

31 May 2025 10:40pm GMT

Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order on California water management. It's a long and rambling order filled with directives, and rather than try to unpack everything, I'm going to try to clarify two issues that seem particularly important. This...

27 Jan 2025 7:17pm GMT

Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, is attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer delegation...

18 Nov 2024 7:51am GMT

When academics write about local government, they generally aren't thinking about water districts. Cities get almost all the attention, counties rarely get to be more than a sideshow, special districts are even more obscure, and water districts are particularly overlooked....

12 Nov 2024 4:14am GMT

Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, will be attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer...

06 Nov 2024 10:05pm GMT

Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, will be attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer...

29 Oct 2024 2:10pm GMT

Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, will be attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer...

23 Oct 2024 2:36pm GMT

San Francisco and the US Environmental Protection Agency have brought a longstanding water dispute to the United States Supreme Court. That is a big mistake. If ever a case should be resolved without a Supreme Court decision, this is it....

30 Sep 2024 5:13pm GMT

In politics, there's an old distinction between show horses and work horses. Show horses get attention. Work horses get things done. It's a useful distinction not just for legislators, but also for legal strategies, and it's particularly useful on the...

02 May 2024 12:26am GMT