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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Trees chopped off and most part of the forest has been damaged due to the mining of talc in the Sherzad district of

Biden Should Bet the Farm Abigail E. André Share: President Biden has placed climate change at the center of his administration and recognizes that “we’ve already waited too long to deal with th[e] climate crisis and we can’t wait any longer. . . we desperately need a unified national response.” To tackle this challenge, President Biden appointed climate and environmental justice (EJ) leaders before taking office, reentered the Paris Climate Accord hours after his inauguration, and shortly thereafter issued executive orders on climate and racial equity that lay the...

For whom CERCLA tolls Share: In fall 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a wrongful death action allegedly stemming from exposure to radioactive chemicals. Pinares v. United Technologies Corp. et al., 973 F.3d 1254 (11th Cir. 2021). In so doing, the Eleventh Circuit traced the legal constellation of public liability actions under the federal Price-Anderson Act (PAA) and Florida’s statute of limitations to find that the action was time-barred—rejecting the appellants’ claims that the Comprehensive Environmen...

The Supreme Court is set to decide whether groundwater resources spanning multiple states can be apportioned as an interstate resource, setting the stage for interstate disputes.

The U.S. Supreme Court has never decided a dispute between two states solely over groundwater. That may be about to change.