NYU School of Law - Environmental Law Journal

An environmental logjam has been building in the United States for over two decades. Congress has failed to pass a major piece of environmental legislation since 1990. Sharp polarization has entrenched outmoded regulatory approaches. The result is that many environmental problems remain unresolved: the oceans have become increasingly degraded and their fish stocks depleted, urban sprawl and traffic congestion threaten our ecosystems, and factory farms contaminate the environment in many parts of the country. And the U.S. has been unable to successfully deal with many new environmental problems, most prominently climate change.

NYU Law Professors Richard Stewart and Katrina Wyman and New York Law School Professor David Schoenbrod have initiated the Breaking the Logjam Project to address these critical issues in federal environmental law. The March symposium, organized by the NYU Environmental Law Journal and Professors Stewart, Wyman, and Schoenbrod, is one component of that project.

For more information and registration, please visit the symposium website: www.law.nyu.edu/conferences/btl