• Environmental advocates and their fans in the press come off badly in Chevron/Ecuador litigation scandal [Coyote, earlier]
• Drought disaster unfolds in California’s Central Valley, where project water is allocated by fiat, not bid for in market [Allysia Finley, WSJ; San Jose Mercury-News]
• Other large democracies resist the idea of packing environmental terms into trade treaties, and maybe they’re right [Simon Lester, Cato]
• “A Tough Day in Court for the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations” [Andrew Grossman]
• R.I.P. leading environmental law professor Joseph Sax [NYT, I discussed his work in Schools for Misrule]
• Lawyers have hijacked Endangered Species Act [Congressional Working Group report via Washington Examiner editorial]
• When science begins bringing extinct animals back to life, watch for unintended legal consequences [Tyler Cowen]

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