[1] The journal was established in 1978 as the Stanford Environmental Law Annual to "provide a forum for student papers in developing areas of environmental law.

[3] In the 2016 Washington and Lee University Law Journal Rankings, the journal was the second-highest rated environmental, natural resources, and land use law journal by impact factor.

[6] Articles also appear in treatises written by American Law Reports[7] and Westlaw.

[8] The journal is abstracted or indexed in EBSCO databases, HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw,[9] and the University of Washington's Current Index to Legal Periodicals.

[10] Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and Ingenta,[9] and the journal posts some past issues on its website.