The journal primarily publishes articles and comments discussing environmental law and policy with a particular focus on issues relating to climate change and energy.

[1] The journal was founded by students at the University of San Diego School of Law who wanted to create the "nation's first student-run law journal focused exclusively on legal aspects of the world's transition to a climate-safe economy.

[2] To generate article submissions for the first issue, the journal's editorial board hosted a symposium on topics relating to climate change and energy law.

[2] The journal publishes scholarship relating to climate change and energy law, including "claims related to climate change, law and economics associated with cap-and-trade greenhouse gas markets, new energy policy of the carbon-constrained world, legal implications of trans-border air and water pollution, and effects of climate change on endangered species law.

[7] Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and Ingenta,[5] and the journal posts past issues on its website.