A bit of happy news! After years of work from many people, and in response to a petition from my organization Delaware Riverkeeper Network, EPA finalized revised water quality standards for the tidal Delaware to support all life stages of aquatic life, including Atlantic Sturgeon! 🐟

This whole thread!

45/ ⚖️🌱The Court. "The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is therefore inherent to other human rights. Under international law, the RtHE is essential to the enjoyment of other human rights."

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

Resources for covering today's 6-3 SCOTUS decision on Tennessee's ban on medical care for transgender youth: www.transjournalists.org/2025-skrmett...

Seven County just released . . . www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Request your free street tree today! Get in line for the fall, why wait til 2026? Fill the form out. If you have a pavement, a contractor will cut a space for the tree. It's a great program! pg-cloud.com/phs/?openfor...

This is your occasional reminder that typing “-ai” before your search term is pretty effective at preventing the often-inaccurate Ai summaries (Yes, I know there are other ways: this is the quickest and easiest to remember)

Disgraceful.

I’ve been thinking about this pivot a lot. What should be the response to those who say climate disruption doesn’t need to be avoided?

The White House is clearly scared of the power states have to build the clean energy economy and is resorting to blatantly unconstitutional tactics. The Trump administration is hoping that pro-climate state governments back down in fear. How should states respond? Simple. Ramp up instead. 🧵

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

State constitutions for the win! www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...

Great opinion piece by Pamela Darville of @powerinterfaith.bsky.social about Philadelphia's gas distribution system and how the Pennsylvania #GreenAmendment plays a role in the management of municipally-owned gas utilities.

Since Trump's inauguration, his EPA had announced no major step to address water or air pollution. That changed today. Trump's EPA BOASTED it plans the biggest rollback of safeguards for health, land, water & air quality in US history. To INCREASE harmful pollution to water, air, to your community.

Today's #SCOTUS decision begs the question (posed by the dissent)--how will #EPA issue permits that ensure water quality standards are met? Ends-based limitations at least nominally met that requirement.

Come hear me talk about the right to a healthy environment this Friday!

Administrative law in the 1970s: how much peanuts in the peanut butter? Administrative law today:

If you’re wondering, like I was, what’s “illegal” about DEI efforts in the eyes of the new administration, this thread is a helpful explainer.

In a court filing, Rio Grande LNG is citing a Trump executive order on environmental justice as a reason why the company's legal problems should be moot gasoutlook.com/news/rio-gra...

Petition for rehearing en banc of Marin Audubon denied--concurrence acknowledges violation of party presentation principle but denies rehearing because discussion of CEQ regulatory authority was not necessary to disposition of the merits. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

I'm going to attempt to track jobs in my line of work (administrative law, litigation-y) that open up over the next stretch and post them here. Let me know if I miss something.

We're hiring for an experienced attorney fired up to hold the line against the oncoming Trump onslaught up here in Alaska. Come join our team or share with your friends! biologicaldiversity.bamboohr.com/careers/111

Bluesky gets a shoutout at the Supreme Court

Fantastic explainer by @propublica.org on the stealthy ways that old oil and gas wells are almost never fully decommissioned and permanently plugged—including how they get repurposed for subsided *waves hands in the air* scammy carbon sequestration operations. www.propublica.org/article/oil-...

Carbon capture+pipes, synthetic direct air carbon capture and pipes, blue hydrogen, and non-H2 electro-fuels are all net sources of CO2 and air pollution into the atmosphere and should be eliminated in the same way fossil fuels should be eliminated. web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

Can we do this in Philly instead of the weird Schuylkill swimming pool by 30th Street?

‼️The LNG Export study is out! ‼️

🚨 #environmentallaw jobs at @sabincenter.bsky.social/Enviro. Advoc. NY & @uclalawemmett.bsky.social! Run don't walk for the opp. to work at orgs w/ great folks like @michaelgerrard.bsky.social @carahorowitz.bsky.social! Pls share recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09931 climate.law.columbia.edu/sites/defaul...

A climate superfund law for New Jersey! File it under “things that just make sense.”

The awesome power of not only environmental rights, but also a constitutional provision that mandates inter-generational equity!

Biden administration has filed a brief urging Supreme Court not to grant petition filed by energy companies seeking to dismiss climate change damages lawsuit in Hawaii. It is unlikely Trump administration would share that view. Brief: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...

Hey #EnergySky, what do you make of this statement from #DOE? Particularly the part about the sequence of decisionmaking being consistent with #DOE policy and precedent during both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Looking back at the #legislativehistory of #NEPA after today's argument. Section 102 provides that subsections (1) and (2) are to be complied with "to the fullest extent possible." The Conference Report accompanying S. 1075 (which would become NEPA) explains that this phrase was meant to replace...

Now that I've had a moment to reflect on today's #SCOTUS argument, I think the biggest issues in this case are: (1) the role of tort law in #NEPA as introduced by Public Citizen, as the statute itself did not feature tort law language until the Builder Act of 2023 ("reasonably foreseeable") . . .

⚖️ Attempting a live-skeet of #SCOTUS Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (No. 23-975) oral argument. #NEPA #environmentallaw 🐻with me . . . 🧵

BIG news! TCE and PCE are common "constituents of concern" at hazardous cleanup sites across the country because they are used extensively in many industries. This also means a high level of occupational exposure.

I read this @arnabdatta.bsky.social OpEd as an apology for a vision of decarbonization that includes ongoing fossil-fuel production. Like all apologies for bad, unworkable climate ideas it misrepresents both the state of play & the costs of its own prescriptions. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

For those who are promoting books on this platform: it’s working. I think my “books purchased” to “skeets skeeted” ratio is greater than two.

Love the CRS! Great resource.

I still think car-centric landscapes deprive us of our freedom!

New potential threats to climate lawsuits against Big Oil in the impending Trump era: -- a Trump DOJ could weigh in on petitions before the Supreme Court to throw out the cases -- Republicans in Congress could pursue a liability waiver, immunizing the industry www.exxonknews.org/p/climate-ac...

Me getting ready for the second Trump administration, the fallout from the D.C. Circuit's Marin Audubon decision (No. 23-1067), and the forthcoming Supreme Court opinion in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (No. 23-975).

Hi all, I'm a U.S.-based environmental lawyer who specializes in environmental rights and the public trust doctrine. Glad to learn and connect here and share stuff worth learning from and connecting to!