In a rare show of unity on May 29, 2025, The U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled 8-0 in favor of limiting the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) The court recognized that despite many ...

Against a backdrop of critically urgent discourse around addiction and mental health policy and a broad spectrum of environmental law issues, FIU’s College of Law has hired three assistant professors ...

Infrastructure may symbolize progress, but without ecological integrity and scientific rigor, it becomes a fragile triumph.

Construction of a bridge over Connecticut Avenue for the Purple Line in Washington, D.C.’s Maryland suburbs. Homeowners invoked environmental law to challenge the 16-mile light rail project, which is ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis. By Laurel Rosenhall Soumya Karlamangla and Adam ...

Former Golden State Gov. Jerry Brown once said that reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was “the Lord’s work.” He isn’t alone. All of California’s governors since Ronald Reagan — ...

When a landmark state environmental law threatened to halt enrollment at UC Berkeley, legislators stepped in and wrote an exemption. When the Sacramento Kings were about to leave town, lawmakers ...

Raised as the son of a lawyer, Ahmed Elseidi grew up surrounded by legal lingo and strategies. Coming from a position where being a lawyer was at his fingertips, Elseidi took a slightly different ...