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Opposition To Renewable Energy Facilities In The United States, Hillary Aidun, Radhika Goyal, Kate Marsh, Neely Mckee, Maris Welch
Opposition To Renewable Energy Facilities In The United States, Hillary Aidun, Radhika Goyal, Kate Marsh, Neely Mckee, Maris Welch
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
More than 100 ordinances have been adopted in 31 states blocking or restricting new wind, solar, and other renewable energy facilities, and more than 160 of these projects have been contested in 48 states. Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law issued a report documenting these instances of local opposition to renewables.
Attribution Science In Takings Litigation, Daniel J. Metzger
Attribution Science In Takings Litigation, Daniel J. Metzger
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Climate science plays a central role in climate litigation, and cases under the Takings Clause of the United States’ and many state constitutions are no exception. In the climate context, takings cases to date have involved claims that challenge the constitutionality of both adaptation and mitigation measures. For instance, real estate developers have claimed that land use and zoning regulations that seek to reduce exposure to climate change impacts constitute regulatory takings. Property owners have claimed that restrictions on the development of fossil fuel infrastructure upset their investment-backed expectations. And property owners adversely impacted by climate-related flood control measures have …
U.S. Climate Litigation In The Age Of Trump: Full Term, Korey Silverman-Roati
U.S. Climate Litigation In The Age Of Trump: Full Term, Korey Silverman-Roati
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
From beginning to end, the Trump administration pursued an agenda of climate deregulation. The administration aimed a portfolio of actions at weakening federal climate protections and promoting fossil fuels.1 The executive branch did so by aiming to revise and rescind all major Obama-era agency rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, leasing public lands for fossil fuel development, attempting to curtail climate impact consideration in National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act reviews, and withdrawing energy efficiency measures, among other climate deregulation actions.2 Collectively, this effort served to advance the view that humans are not causing serious climate change and …
The Climate Leadership And Community Protection Act’S Environmental Justice Promise, Hillary Aidun, Julia Li, Antonia Pereira
The Climate Leadership And Community Protection Act’S Environmental Justice Promise, Hillary Aidun, Julia Li, Antonia Pereira
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
In 2019, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (“CLCPA”) into law. The CLCPA was passed with the objective of addressing climate change and minimizing the adverse impacts on the “economic well-being, public health, natural resources, and the environment of New York.” S. 6599, 2019-2020 Sen., Reg. Sess. § 1 (N.Y. 2019). The CLCPA seeks to meet these objectives by reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions, scaling up renewable energy to avoid further climate change, and improving the resiliency of the state in order to address unavoidable climate change impacts. Id. The law created …