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Bridging Silos: Environmental And Reproductive Justice In The Climate Crisis, Sara A. Colangelo
Bridging Silos: Environmental And Reproductive Justice In The Climate Crisis, Sara A. Colangelo
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The climate crisis is a perilous yet underexamined example of the intersection of environmental injustice and reproductive injustice. The physical manifestations of the climate crisis affect key elements of reproductive justice: women’s rights to have children, to not have children, and to parent children in healthy, sustainable communities. Reams of studies document climate disaster-driven gender violence, loss of access to healthcare and reproductive services, as well as direct and deadly health effects of climate change on maternal health, fetal development, infants, and children. Despite these profound impacts, the environmental and reproductive justice movements remain largely siloed, particularly in the legal …
A Different Kind Of "Republican Moment" In Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus
A Different Kind Of "Republican Moment" In Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The purpose of this Essay is to propose and discuss the possibility that the nation currently faces another, albeit very different, "republican moment" that may well test the future of environmental protection laws in the United States. This new "moment" has as its modifier an uppercase "Republican" rather than a lowercase "republican." While the latter "republican" invokes the political tradition referred to as "civic republicanism," the former "Republican" refers instead to the current National Republican Party. The "moment" facing environmental law is the virtually unprecedented ascendancy of the Republican Party in all three branches of the federal government.