The new 2023 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 180 law schools (the faculty survey had a 61% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | Score | School |
| 1 | 4.4 | Pace |
| 1 | 4.4 | UC-Berkeley |
| 1 | 4.4 | UCLA |
| 4 | 4.3 | Lewis & Clark |
| 5 | 4.1 | NYU |
| 5 | 4.1 | Vermont |
| 7 | 4.0 | Columbia |
| 7 | 4.0 | Georgetown |
| 7 | 4.0 | Harvard |
| 7 | 4.0 | Oregon |
| 7 | 4.0 | Vanderbilt |
| 12 | 3.9 | Colorado |
| 13 | 3.8 | George Washington |
| 13 | 3.8 | Maryland |
| 13 | 3.8 | Stanford |
| 16 | 3.7 | Utah |
| 17 | 3.6 | Arizona State |
| 17 | 3.6 | Duke |
| 17 | 3.6 | Tulane |
| 17 | 3.6 | UC-Davis |
| 21 | 3.5 | Denver |
| 21 | 3.5 | Florida |
| 21 | 3.5 | Florida State |
| 21 | 3.5 | Houston |
| 21 | 3.5 | UC-Hastings |
| 26 | 3.4 | Hawaii |
| 26 | 3.4 | Minnesota |
| 26 | 3.4 | Yale |
| 29 | 3.3 | New Mexico |
| 29 | 3.3 | Virginia |
| 31 | 3.2 | Arizona |
| 31 | 3.2 | Texas |
| 31 | 3.2 | Univ. of Washington |
| 34 | 3.1 | Boston College |
| 34 | 3.1 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 34 | 3.1 | Montana |
| 34 | 3.1 | UC-Irvine |
| 38 | 3.0 | Northwestern |
| 38 | 3.0 | Texas A&M |
| 38 | 3.0 | USC |
| 41 | 2.9 | Michigan |
| 41 | 2.9 | North Carolina |
| 41 | 2.9 | Widener (DE) |
| 44 | 2.8 | American |
| 44 | 2.8 | Case Western |
| 44 | 2.8 | CUNY |
| 44 | 2.8 | Loyola-New Orleans |
| 44 | 2.8 | Maine |
| 44 | 2.8 | Miami |
| 44 | 2.8 | Penn |
| 44 | 2.8 | Penn State-University Park |
| 44 | 2.8 | San Diego |
| 44 | 2.8 | Wake Forest |
| 44 | 2.8 | Wisconsin |
| 44 | 2.8 | Wyoming |
2022 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings
2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Omnibus Specialty Rankings (compilation of all 13 special rankings)
- Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Tax Law
- Trial Advocacy
