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The Watershed

Sambhav Sankar

A newsletter about the key legal wins and losses that are reshaping the environmental movement.

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This week I’m turning over The Watershed to Jan Hasselman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice. The environmental footprint of humanity is reaching new realms like the deep sea and outer space. Like an early sheriff in the Wild West, Jan’s re...

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I recently spoke to one of Earthjustice’s appellate lawyers about the U.S. Supreme Court and the challenges of representing our clients before its conservative supermajority. She said something I’m still thinking about.

It’s not so much th...

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How the Supreme Court ruled on the environment this term

Pundits are always trying to force-fit a “theme” onto the decisions in a Supreme Court term — the October to June period when the Court hears most of its cases. It’s an exercise I’ve never bothered with; justices have life tenure and the “t...

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How the energy dominance agenda is going

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “unleash” American “energy dominance.”

Trump put all of his chips — to be precise, our chips — on domestic fossil fuel production. He promised cheap p...

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The Laws Still Exist, the Consequences Don’t: America’s Vanishing Environmental Enforcement

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