#26: Climate Change, Environmental Law, and Public Access to Justice

Florida isn’t just on the front line for climate change in America – it’s also a testing ground for new legal questions about how to deal with its consequences.

In the latest episode of Real Cases, we speak with Assistant Professor Jaclyn Lopez, Director of the Jacobs Public Interest Law Clinic for Democracy and the Environment. We discuss public access to environmental justice, new legal problems raised by increased flooding, and the role the Jacobs Law Clinic is playing in fighting to extend federal Endangered Species Act protection to the ghost orchid, a rare and famous flower unique to the region.