ICE Harasses my daughter! x.com/robertvperci...

Yesterday I was transfered from UM Medical Center in Baltimore to Medstar DC. This will make it easier for my kids in DC to visit me as I embark on a very long rehab process. Thank you to everyone for your support and caring.

SO happy about this: youtu.be/B7VLNK4JkL8

Scott Jennings: "I don’t care what they think...They don’t know what’s good for them. I do not care one bit." (2/2) ca.news.yahoo.com/scott-jennin...

I moved to Capital Hill in DC 46 years ago when I started my clerkship w Justice White. My kids went to public schools on the Hill and their kids also do. DC has never been safer, but we still lack voting representation in Congress. What we don’t lack is fear-mongering outsiders who dump on DC.

Sad to see that the Trump administration has politicized an important and formerly objective human rights report. Trump appointees cut sections on LGBTQ rights and government corruption and tempered criticism of El Salvador: State Department Issues Human-Rights Report Reflecting Trump Priorities

Great article by Fiona Harvey, only reporter to attend every climate COP, who participated in my VLS summer class as a media fellow in 2020. I wrote a chapter about this issue in Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (Oxford Press 2018). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If EPA repeals its endangerment finding, the basis for industry’s fervent wish to displace state climate litigation is gone. You CANNOT have it both ways. See: journals.library.wustl.edu/lawreview/ar...

You Tube video of my Hot Topics talk with Sean Donahue on the impact of the second Trump administration on environmental law is now available online. Thank you to Vermont Law School where I just spent a great week teaching Global Environmental Governance: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xWDJ...

ICJ says cimate change is an “existential threat” to mankind just as Trump climate deniers at EPA say they will try to repeal its 2010 “endangerment” finding. Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...

No matter how determined certain politicians are to prop up old fossil fuel technology, the sun is winning dramatically, both in the U.S. and the rest of the world, as Bill McKibben explains. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Mark the Calendar‼️ @CIJ_ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations in relation to #ClimateChange & the protection of the climate system & the rights of present & future generations on July 23 at 3pm in The Hague‼️ Climate Rights Intl on 2024 ICJ hearings cri.org/icj-major-fo...

On final day of IUCN AEL Colloquium in Lima, Peru, Maryland law grad Emily Hurley presents on waste incineration in China and Baltimore. Recent grad Jenna Schaeffer (on right) presents on EV regulation. Greatly appreciated that they participated in person while studying for the bar exam!

One of the biggest of many MAGA lies is that this administration cares more about free speech than its predecessor. newrepublic.com/post/197616/...

Maryland Carey Law delegation to the 22nd Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law at the Universidad Cientifica del Sur in Lima, Peru: Left to right: Samantha Bingaman, Jon Mueller, yours truly, Bill Piermattei, Tim Cohn & Emily Hurley. Not pictured: Jenna Schaeffer.

This reinforces my prior observation. With three more teams next year WNBA teams will not be waiving such talented European champions. www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/30/g...

Bravo! This was sorely needed as illustrated by the fact that the existing WNBA teams could not find room for several stars (like Maryland’s Shyanne Sellers). WNBA announces record expansion to Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia

I am quoted in this article about the Court’s nationwide injunction decision today. The Court should have just taken the case on the merits and voided Trump’s blatantly unconstituional executive order. www.eenews.net/articles/sup...

Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...

My granddaughter Zoey graduating yesterday from fifth grade at Watkins Elementary. Fun fact: she can sing the national anthem of Serbia in Serbian! She and her classmates sang it during a visit to the Serbian embassy. Both my children also are grads of Watkins, a great public school on Capital Hill.

Tried to link to this Washington Post article in my last post.

This comports w my experience. A letter asked if I wanted to update the beneficiary on my Social Security records. My late wife was still listed. But I could no longer update it online and no one answered the phone at SS. DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite

In the print edition of today’s Sunday New York Times (article was posted online several weeks ago as part of the Times’s “50 States, 50 Fixes” series highlighting positive environmental actions at the state and local levels). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

3/ 🌐 ⚖️ But the case impacts expands well beyond these two actors. The judges will confirm today whether big polluters can be held accountable for climate harm & made liable to pay their fair share of the adaptation costs of impacted communities across the world. #ClimateJustice

Just finished Lawless by @leahlitman.bsky.social . This is a valuable history lesson on the Supreme Court and its complex, long-standing, and intertwined relationship with the rest of US politics. Run, don't walk to read it. 10/10 💙 libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Maryland Law students graduating this year with certificates of concentration in environmental law. At school awards ceremony two of them - Samantha Bingaman and Jo Vandorhorst - were honored for having the highest and second highest gpa’s in the graduating class. And no, we are not easy graders.

My grandson Casen Robert Percival celebrates his 3-month birthday by going to his first MLB game.

Dinner in DC last night with Jingjing Zhang from the Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability and two top environmental law scholars from Uganda and Kenya, including my old friend Robert Kibugi from the University of Nairobi, who were in town for a World Bank conference.

A joyous day for Catholics across the globe, but especially those here in the United States who are seeing the first American Pope. I’m hopeful that Pope Leo XIV can continue the legacy of Pope Francis by encouraging selflessness, humility and service to the world’s poorest and most marginalized.

Fourteen years ago I made this video of softball at the law school. It ends with the grand slam by Tom Prevas that walked off UVA Gold in the semis of their tournament www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEf4...

The very best of Md Carey Law was on display last Friday at the retirement party for my colleagues Mike Millemann and Larry Gibson who combined had taught for more than 100 years. Gov. Wes Moore opened the event. I spoke about how Mike created the Environmental Law Program in 1987 and recruited me.

Scoreboard greeting at last Tuesday’s Nats /Orioles game.

Members of the Maryland Carey Law School Softball Team including co-captains Hannah Lee and Hailey Bernstein attending the Nats/Orioles game at Nats Park on Tuesday April 22. Nats won 7-0, disappointing the team, but not me. Nats welcomed us on the scoreboard.

Yesterday UConn law had a great Earth Day conference focusing on the immense challenges federal rollbacks pose to all levels of government. I was the opening keynote speaker. Enormous thanks to Prof. Joe McDougald and his fabulous students for hosting such a terrific conference.

Great day to be a fan of the Terp women. Brenda Frese is a great coach and attracts great talent. Can’t wait for next year. x.com/trendyhoopst...

Congrats to Florida for winning the UVA coed tournament. Maryland walked off Harvard 8-7 and beat William & Mary 16-5 to reach the Elite 8. With a 10-4 lead over UNC I liked our chances to reach the Final Four. But a grand slam and a 3-run HR walked us off. Thank you Hannah and Hailey and the team!

With the Maryland Carey law softball team at the UVA Law School tournament in Charlottesville. They just defeated Michigan by the football score of 21-3. Last night they beat UVA JAG school by 25-0 and Richmond Law 19-3.

I enjoyed speaking this morning at the ABA SEER conference in Philadelphia and seeing some former students. Our panel addressed the environmental jurisprudence of Justice Alito. After I returned to DC I stopped for lunch at the Monocle. Who was sitting at the table across from me - Justice Alito!

Malcolm Stewart had the best line in today’s oral argument in Oklahoma v EPA: “if location in DC meant that the DC Circuit is a hometown court for EPA, then this Court would be a hometown court for EPA, and I’ve never had that perception. (Laughter.)”

My granddaughter Zoey and I are celebrating in College Park after watching the Terp women come from 17 points down to defeat Alabama 111-108 in double overtime to join the sweet 16

Casen Robert Percival

So happy to get to see the Terp women in their victories over Oregon Thursday in Eugene (79-62) and today in Seattle over UW (81-73). Taking a red eye flight back to the east coast tonight where I hope to be able to meet my new first grand son tomorrow.

How Dan Snyder views Commanders' title run from afar: 'He ... hates it' A good owner can make all the difference in the world.

Eye-opening article by Phil Landigran, David Wirth, Wendy Wagner and other esteemed scientific and legal experts provides a powerful indictment of our current system of chemical regulation. It was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

40 years ago - best decision of my life.