This is a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists on the potential impact of various rates of sea level rise on residential and coastal real estate, using data on the coastal real estate from Zillow.
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Federal Circuit Rejects Court of Claims finding that MRGO Caused a Taking by Flooding
(Post under revision) This case arose from claims brought by property owners in St. Bernard and New Orleans claiming that the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet) canal increased the flooding from Hurricane Katrina and after. This is the same junk…
The Public Trust Doctrine and Sea Level Rise
Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, The Public Trust Doctrine: A Guiding Principle for Governing California’s Coast Under Climate Change (2017) This report looks at the legal implications as the mean high tide line – the…
Disaster Tourism: Honest Altruism or Vulgar Voyerism?
(Student post from my coastal law class, 2010) Dark tourism is tourism involving travel to sites associated with death and suffering. Thanatourism, derived from the Ancient Greek word thanatos for the personification of death, is associated with dark tourism but refers more…
Dusky Gopher Frog – Endangered Species Act in the Supreme Court
Ownership of Submerged Lands in Louisiana
Mestayer, Jacques. “Saving Sportsman’s Paradise: Article 450 and Declaring Ownership of Submerged Lands in Louisiana.” La. L. Rev. 76 (2015): 889. Law Professor’s Brief on Louisiana Public Trust Doctrine
Louisiana Attorney General Sues the Corps over Intracoastal Canal
Louisiana v. United States – Complaint in Intracoastal Canal Litigation Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry discussion lawsuit and explaining that climate change is a hoax and that sea level is rising. – Facebook video on the AG Facebook page. The AG…
Louisiana Canals and Their Influence on Wetland Development – 1973
Davis, Donald Wayne, “Louisiana Canals and Their Influence on Wetland Development.” (1973). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 2386. http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/2386 Coastal Louisiana, according to recent measurements, has 4,572 miles of canals. This network can be divided into five types; drainage and…
Reports of the Louisiana Oyster Commission – 1902 to 1910
These reports are of contemporary interest because they remind us that oysters are not traditionally a major part of the Mississippi Delta Ecosystem. From p.77 of the First Biennial Report 1902-1904: There are vast areas of soft mud bottoms, in your…
National Hurricane Center – Hurricane Harvey Report
National Hurricane Center – Hurricane Harvey Report (2018) Harvey started as a typical weak August tropical storm that affected the Lesser Antilles and dissipated over the central Caribbean Sea. However, after re-forming over the Bay of Campeche, Harvey rapidly intensified…
Assessment of the Potential Health Impacts of Climate Change in Alaska
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Assessment of the Potential Health Impacts of Climate Change in Alaska (2018) (This is an excellent, detailed report of the present and potential impacts of climate change on health in Alaska.) Over the…
California Communities Confronting Rising Sea Levels Sue Fossil Fuel Companies
Breaking News! Oakland and San Francisco climate cases removed to federal court and held there. People of the State of California v. BP P.L.C. et al., San Francisco Superior Court Case No. CGC 17-561370 People of the State of California v.…
ARkStorm – The weather equivalent of the Big One for California
California – The Flood that Could Change Everything
What would happen if the Mississippi River changed its course to the Atchafalaya?
PDF – What would happen if the Mississippi River changed its course to the Atchafalaya?
GAO – DOD Needs to Better Incorporate Adaptation into Planning and Collaboration at Overseas Installations
The expected impacts of weather effects associated with climate change pose operational and budgetary risks to overseas infrastructure according to the Department of Defense (DOD), but DOD does not consistently track the impacts’ estimated costs. Operational risks (including interruptions to…
Arctic Report Card 2017
Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades Despite relatively cool summer temperatures, observations in 2017 continue to indicate that the Arctic environmental system has reached a ‘new normal’, characterized by long-term losses in…
Category 6 Blog – Why Is It So Hard to Fix the National Flood Insurance Program?
A tangle of politics and problems may force yet another delay in long-sought updates to the broke, beleaguered U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Congress has the unenviable task of putting NFIP back in the black without raising rates too quickly on…
Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment
Highlights of the U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report The climate of the United States is strongly connected to the changing global climate. The statements below highlight past, current, and projected climate changes for the United States…
From Bali To Marrakech: A Decade Of International Climate Negotiations
From Bali To Marrakech: A Decade Of International Climate Negotiations (2017) MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Since its entry into force in 1994, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been at the centre of international efforts to…
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Map
By Kmusser – Own work, Elevation data from SRTM, hydrologic data from the National Hydrography Dataset, urban areas from Vector Map, all other features from the National Atlas., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12520461
EPA – Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action. United States Environmental Protection Agency – 2015
EPA. 2015. Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Atmospheric Programs, EPA 430-R-15-001. About this Report This report summarizes and communicates the results of EPA’s ongoing Climate Change Impacts and…
Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
TRNN SPECIAL: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Well Under 2 Degrees Celsius: Fast Action Policies to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change
Well Under 2 Degrees Celsius: Fast Action Policies to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change. Report of the Committee to Prevent Extreme Climate Change (2017) Climate change is becoming an existential threat with warming in excess of…
Standing Rock/Dakota Access Pipeline Resources
PBS Newshour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/tribes-across-north-america-converge-standing-rock-hoping-heard-2/
The First Earth Day
The History of Earth Day
Unfinished Business A Comparative Assessment Of Environmental Problems Overview Report – 1987
This is a pivotal report in US Environmental Law. It looked at whether the EPA was spending too many resources on low level toxic exposures, at the expense of other environmental risks, including climate change. It later became a…
2017 – Draft of the US Climate Change Report
2017 – Draft of the US Climate Change Report A draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public but was obtained by The New York Times, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects…
NRDC Report: How To Break The Cycle Of Repeated Flooding With Climate-Smart Flood Insurance Reforms
Seeking Higher Ground: How To Break The Cycle Of Repeated Flooding With Climate-Smart Flood Insurance Reforms (2017) The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was designed to help Americans recover from flood disasters, but it can also unintentionally trap homeowners who…
NEPA Lawsuit Argues that Immigrants to the US Increase Climate Change
This lawsuit by an anti-immigration group alleges that since Americans have among the highest carbon footprints, allowing immigrants into the US will increase GHG emissions and climate change. This means that immigration has environmental impacts and thus immigration policy changes…
Climate Change Law and Policy Project Reports
Why the Master Plan will not protect Louisiana and what we should do instead? Why was the Louisiana Flood of August 2016 so severe?