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Recently published law review notes and comments articles by CWRU law students have examined a range of important environmental law issues, including several with particular importance to northeast Ohio and the Great Lakes. These articles include:

by Casey E Lindstrom (LAW ‘24), in volume 74 of the Case Western Reserve Law Review, examines the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, for the protection of wetlands and identifies the potential for state regulation to fill gaps in wetland protection, focusing on Ohio’s protection of isolated wetlands as a case study.

, by Angelica Blair (LAW ‘24), in volume 74 of the Case Western Reserve Law Review, discusses the potential legal and regulatory challenges associated with offshore wind energy projects in the Great Lakes region. Blair uses Cleveland, Ohio’s Icebreaker Wind Project to explore the obstacles to offshore wind development and identify potential solutions.

by Casey E. Lindstrom (LAW ‘24), in volume 74 of the Case Western Reserve Law Review, argues that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to consider “co-benefits”-those additional benefits a regulation may provide beyond its targeted emission reductions –when promulgating emission control regulations under the Clean Air Act.

by Madeline Msichler (LAW ‘23), in volume 73 of the Case Western Reserve Law Review, responds to the threat of harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes, such as the 2014 bloom that contaminated Toledo, Ohio’s water supply. Given that fertilizer runoff is an important contributor to such blooms, this note explores mandatory riparian edge-of-field buffers as a potential policy response. 

by Amanda Price (LAW ‘24) in volume 56 of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law examines whether crimes of “ecocide” may be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court under Article 7(1)(k) of the Rome Statute, focusing on former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro’s alleged destruction of the Amazon as a crime against humanity.