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- Another Landmark Environmental Law Year: 2024–2025 Supreme Court Roundup
- September 8th, 2025 — by Amy Kraitchman — Category: Environmental Law
- On September 17, 2025, the Law Center will be hosting our annual Supreme Court webinar. This webinar will cover environmental law cases from the 2024–2025 U.S. Supreme Court term, as well as review the impacts of past cases and preview notable environmental cases in the upcoming term.
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- Justice Department Affirms the Legality of Shrinking and Removing National Monuments
- August 26th, 2025 — by Bradley Reimer — Category: Environmental Law
- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a new opinion in late May detailing why President Trump can legally shrink and outright remove national monuments under the Antiquities Act of 1906 (Antiquities Act). Specifically, Trump seeks to remove the Chuckwalla and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monuments created by President Biden to free up the land for oil and gas drilling.
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- Breaking Down the AFFF Multidistrict Litigation
- August 11th, 2025 — by Blakely Durham — Category: Water Quality
- South Carolina has become a hotspot for litigation surrounding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The reason? The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina is home to the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Product Liability Multidistrict Litigation.
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- High Seas Treaty Gaining Worldwide Support
- July 29th, 2025 — by Bradley Reimer — Category: Miscellaneous
- The UN Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement (“BBNJ” or “BBNJ Agreement”), also called the High Seas Treaty, is the first comprehensive international agreement in history to lay out a legal framework for protecting the high seas. First introduced in 2023, the Agreement has recently received waves of both signatures and ratifications, bringing it closer to enforcement.
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- Oil Company Faces Legal Pushback for Attempted Restart of Santa Barbara Pipeline
- July 16th, 2025 — by Bradley Reimer — Category: Offshore Energy
- On June 3rd, 2025, a California court ordered the Houston-based oil company Sable Offshore Corp. (Sable) to halt the opening of the Las Flores Pipeline System in Santa Barbara, California. This is a significant blow to Sable’s attempt at revitalizing and reopening the Santa Ynez Unit (Unit), the oil platforms and pipes responsible for the 2015 Refugio oil spill.
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- Shrinking Oceanic Protections and the Expansion of Commercial Fishing Freedoms
- July 2nd, 2025 — by Taylor Young — Category: Environmental Law
- In 2009, President George W. Bush created three marine national monuments conserving and protecting over 195,000 square miles. These designations created environmental safeguards by prohibiting commercial fishing and the extraction of natural resources within the area.
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