The journal was established in 2012 after "years of advocacy [by] environmental law students" at the University of Michigan School of Law.[2] The journal's founding editors had the goal of "prompt[ing] new scholarship and the development of sound public policy approaches in both environmental law and administrative law."[3] In 2016, Washington and Lee University's Law Journal Rankings placed the journal among the top three environmental, natural resources, and land use law journals with the highest impact factor.[4]
