FEATURE ARTICLE

May 2009

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New Strategies for Injecting Climate Change Analysis into Agency Decision-Making Likely a Washout

For some time now, advocates have been seizing on the growing public awareness of global climate change in hopes of injecting climate change considerations into federal agency decision-making under a host of environmental statutes. With mixed success, these efforts have continued in a trial-and-error fashion under different environmental laws. Recently, environmental groups have turned their attention to the Clean Water Act (CWA) and other water resource protection laws as potential vehicles to address climate change.