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Copyright © 2014 Environmental Law Institute®, Washington, DC. Reprinted with permission from ELR®, http://www.eli.org, 1-800-433-5120. Environmental Law Institute and Vanderbilt University Law School August 2014 Environmental Law and Policy Volume 44, No. 8 Annual Review www.elr.info Cary Coglianese In the Courts A Truly “Top Task”: Rulemaking and Its Accessibility on Agency Websites Supreme Court’s UARG decision With Response by Andrea Bear Field tailors EPA’s climate rules Cynthia R. Farina, Mary Newhart, and Josiah Heidt In the Congress Rulemaking vs. Democracy: Judging and Nudging Public Participation That Water Resources Reform and Counts Development Act signed into law With Responses by Avi Garbow & Marna McDermott; Michael Halpern; and Michael Walls In the Agencies FWS moves wood storks from endangered to threatened status Jedediah Purdy Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law In the States With Responses by E. Donald Elliott; Susan Casey-Lefkowitz; and Maine issues regulations for W. David Bridgers & Chanelle A. Johnson children’s products containing arsenic, cadmium, or mercury John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan S. Masur Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis Alexandra B. Klass and Elizabeth J. Wilson Interstate Transmission Challenges for Renewable Energy: A Federalism Mismatch Linda K. Breggin, David L. Staab, Emma T. Doineau, and Michael P. Vandenbergh Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship 2008-2013 Copyright © 2014 Environmental Law Institute®, Washington, DC. Reprinted with permission from ELR®, http://www.eli.org, 1-800-433-5120. Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review 2013-2014 Board of Editors Emma Doineau Editor-in-Chief Veronica Gordon Anna Claire Skinner Executive Editor Managing Editor David Staab Merrick Parrott Development Editor Symposium Editor Articles Editors Nina Maja Bergmar Rachel Bevans Caroline Cecot Elise Hofer Emma Stephens Editorial Staff Clarke Agre Lorraine Baer Jordan Banks Jamieson Brock Leland Frost Jonathan Gendzier Kendra Key Philip Lu Kristen Rasnic Sean Ryan Faculty Supervisor Environmental Law Institute Advisor Michael P. Vandenbergh Linda K. Breggin Advisory Board Barry Breen Wm. Robert Irvin Richard Leahy Raymond B. Ludwiszewski Vickie Patton David Rejeski James Salzman Scott Schang LaJuana Wilcher Copyright © 2014 Environmental Law Institute®, Washington, DC. Reprinted with permission from ELR®, http://www.eli.org, 1-800-433-5120. 8-2014 44 ELR 10653 CONTENTS Comment Linda K. Breggin, David L. Staab, Emma T. Doineau, and Michael P. Vandenbergh, Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship 2008-2013 . 10657 Articles and Responses Cary Coglianese, A Truly “Top Task”: Rulemaking and Its Accessibility on Agency Websites . .10660 Andrea Bear Field, Comments on A Truly “Top Task”: Rulemaking and Its Accessibility on Agency Websites . .10667 Cynthia R. Farina, Mary Newhart, and Josiah Heidt, Rulemaking vs . Democracy: Judging and Nudging Public Participation That Counts . 10670 Avi Garbow and Marna McDermott, Comments on Rulemaking vs. Democracy: Judging and Nudging Public Participation That Counts . 10678 Michael Halpern, Comments on Rulemaking vs. Democracy: Judging and Nudging Public Participation That Counts . .10681 Michael Walls, Comments on Rulemaking vs. Democracy: Judging and Nudging Public Participation That Counts . .10684 Jedediah Purdy, Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law . .10687 E. Donald Elliott, Comments on Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law . .10693 Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Comments on Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law . .10697 W. David Bridgers and Chanelle A. Johnson, Comments on Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law . .10699 Honorable Mentions John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan S. Masur, Well-Being Analysis vs . Cost-Benefit Analysis . .10702 Alexandra B. Klass and Elizabeth J. Wilson, Interstate Transmission Challenges for Renewable Energy: A Federalism Mismatch . .10705 Recent Developments In the Congress . .10709 In the Courts . 10714 In the Federal Agencies . 10716 In the State Agencies . 10719 Recent Journal Literature . .10723 Topical Index . 10725 Copyright © 2014, Environmental Law Institute® All rights reserved . 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