The journal primarily publishes articles, notes, and book reviews discussing environmental law and policy and related subjects.

"[3] Sovern also remarked that environmental scholarship had "passed the long, dark years when those concerned with the environment were considered kooks" and he assured readers that the journal would not be "recycled" like another "long-gone New York newspaper.

"[3] In opening remarks for the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the journal, a member of the journal's board of directors suggested that future authors would need to confront "second-generation environmental problems" that would be "more complex" than problems in the past.

[4] The journal publishes scholarship relating to "a range of topics from civil rights to the Securities and Exchange Commission, all concerning some aspect of environmental law and policy.

[22] Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and Ingenta,[21] and the journal posts some past issues on its website.