S​an Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law

The San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law serves as a foundation for continued dialogue and development of the rapidly emerging legal issues related to climate change and energy. The journal delves into topics such as insurance claims related to climate change, law and economics associated with cap-and-trade greenhouse gas markets, new energy policy of the carbon-constrained world, legal implications of trans-border air and water pollution, and effects of climate change on endangered species law.

The first issue of the San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law was published December 2009. Beginning in 2015, San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law began transitioning from being a paper journal to an online journal. You can now have access to our articles through USD's repository. If you are still interested in receiving a paper version of the issue, please contact Joe Christensen, Inc., EBSCO or the William S. Hein Co.

The San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law is also announcing the Thirteenth Annual Lesley K. McAllister Symposium on Climate and Energy Law to be held on Friday, November 12, 2021, 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the Mother Rosalie Hill Hall Warren Auditorium.  This year's theme relates to whether our energy infrastructure can handle the impacts of and solutions to climate change.

For more information, please contact:

Natalie Clagett
usd.cels.coordinator@gmail.com

Purchase advanced tickets for the Thirteenth Annual Lesley K. McAllister Symposium on Climate and Energy Law.

Current Issue

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Articles in Volume 13
Behind the Concrete Curtain: Acknowledging and Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydroelectric Facilities and River Impoundments
Joseph A. Welsh
Decarceration with Decarbonization: Renewable Rikers and the Transition to Clean Power
Rebecca Bratspies
Fact or Doctrine? Inconsistencies in the Application of the Dormant Commerce Clause’s Extraterritoriality Principle to Challenges to State Climate Change Prevention Policies
Kelsey Gagnon
How Virtual Power Plants Can Advance Electrification and Mitigate Infrastructure Needs As We Race to Meet Our Climate Challenges
Kevin B. Jones, PhD, Mary Franco, Kim Mashke, Sarah A. Pardee
Hydropower’s Promise: The Opportunities and Challenges of Hydropower for Mitigating Climate-Driven Scarcity
Lauren Perkins, Sylwia Dakowicz, Ellen Hill, Peter Kissel, Sean Neal
Nevada’s Energy Choice Initiative: A Case Study of Deregulation, the Dormant Commerce Clause, and Energy Federalism
Joel A. Kaufmann
Will the Border Water Quality Restoration and Protection Act of 2020 Be Enough to Flush the Tijuana River Valley Water Pollution Crisis Down the Drain?
Kyle A. Rudolph