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Economic, social and environmental well-being are intertwined – is the premise of sustainable development.

Many colonias along the Texas-Mexico border still lack basic infrastructure, including running water. AP Photo/Eric GayIn a Zen parable, a man sees a horse and rider galloping by. The man asks the rider where he’s going, and the rider responds, “I don’t know. Ask the horse!” It is easy to feel out of control and helpless in the face of the many problems Americans are now experiencing – unaffordable health care, poverty and climate change, to name a few. These problems are made harder by the ways

Youth climate activists’ landmark legal victory against the state of Montana last week could set the stage for wider recognition of rights to protection from climate change, with litigants potentially challenging state permitting for fossil fuel projects directly. The decision, Held v. Montana, came in the wake of a state rule that would have barred Montana agencies…

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the south-central and eastern regions of the commonwealth are currently the most impacted from the Canadian wildfires.

By Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University | - Honolulu has lost more than …