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50 Envtl. L. [i] (2020)

handle is hein.journals/envlnw50 and id is 1 raw text is: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Lewis & Clark Law School VOLUME 50 WINTER 2020 NUMBER 1 ESSAYS Environmental Law at 50: A Cutting-Edge Journal Examining the Central Issues of Our Tim e.................................................. 1 Michael C. Blumm This Paper, a celebratory essay marking the 50th anniversary of the first issue of Environmental Law, the nation's oldest and most comprehensive law student-edited environmental law review, discusses the background of the founding of the journal in 1970 and surveys the many symposia and leading articles it has published over the years. The output has been fairly astonishing in terms of the breadth of coverage and the innovative environmental ideas advanced. The Essay notes the numerous authors who have published in Environmental Law more than once, and an appendix catalogs some thirty years of publishing the articles of distinguished environmental visitors to Lewis & Clark Law. The Ends and Means of Decarbonization: The Green New Deal in C ontext ................................................................................... 21 Jonas J. Monast Disputes about climate policy involve much more than whether or not to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is general agreement among proponents of climate policy that strategies should be cost effective, address distributional impacts, and incentivize investments in low-carbon technologies. Yet disagreements abound regarding additional goals of climate policy design. Decarbonizing the economy means changing the sources of energy we use, how we transport people and products, how we produce food, and which resources we consume. Yet even among proponents of federal climate legislation there is strong disagreement regarding policy instruments. Recent proposals for a revenue-neutral carbon tax and a Green New Deal (GND) frame the opposite ends of the debate. On one end, the GND framework treats climate policy as an opportunity to steer the trajectory of the U.S. economy while also correcting social and environmental injustices. Proponents of the most expansive iterations of a GND argue that it is not possible to