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Facing Down The So-Called Agenda 21 'Conspiracy', John Dernbach Jan 2015

Facing Down The So-Called Agenda 21 'Conspiracy', John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


A Response To The Ipcc Fifth Assessment, Sarah Adams-Schoen, Deepa Badrinarayana, Cinnamon Carlarne, Robin Craig, John Dernbach, Keith Hirokawa, Alexandra Klass, Katrina Kuh, Stephen Miller, Jessica Owley, Shannon Roesler, Jonathon Rosenbloom, Inara Scott, David Takacs Dec 2014

A Response To The Ipcc Fifth Assessment, Sarah Adams-Schoen, Deepa Badrinarayana, Cinnamon Carlarne, Robin Craig, John Dernbach, Keith Hirokawa, Alexandra Klass, Katrina Kuh, Stephen Miller, Jessica Owley, Shannon Roesler, Jonathon Rosenbloom, Inara Scott, David Takacs

John C. Dernbach

This collection of essays is the initial product of the second meeting of the Environmental Law Collaborative, a group of environmental law scholars that meet to discuss important and timely environmental issues. Here, the group provides an array of perspectives arising from the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Each scholar chose one passage from one of the IPCC’s three Summaries for Policymakers as a jumping-off point for exploring climate change issues and responding directly to the reports. The result is a variety of viewpoints on the future of how law relates to climate change, a result …


Evolution Of U.S. Climate Policy, John Dernbach, Robert Altenburg Dec 2013

Evolution Of U.S. Climate Policy, John Dernbach, Robert Altenburg

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


The Growing Importance Of Sustainability To Lawyers And The Aba, John Dernbach, Lee Dehihns, Ira Feldman Jun 2013

The Growing Importance Of Sustainability To Lawyers And The Aba, John Dernbach, Lee Dehihns, Ira Feldman

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


The Sustainable Relationship: What The United States And The United Kingdom Can Teach Each Other About Climate Change And Sustainable Development At The National Level, John Dernbach, Andrea Ross Apr 2013

The Sustainable Relationship: What The United States And The United Kingdom Can Teach Each Other About Climate Change And Sustainable Development At The National Level, John Dernbach, Andrea Ross

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Hitting The Sustainability Accelerator: 51 Sustainability Experts, 4 Approaches, John Dernbach Feb 2013

Hitting The Sustainability Accelerator: 51 Sustainability Experts, 4 Approaches, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Acting As If Tomorrow Matters: Mapping The Obstacles To Sustainability, John Dernbach Jan 2013

Acting As If Tomorrow Matters: Mapping The Obstacles To Sustainability, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


What Motivates Sustainability Efforts In The U.S.?, John Dernbach Jan 2013

What Motivates Sustainability Efforts In The U.S.?, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


U.S. Sustainability Efforts: Modest Progress But An Increasingly Distant Goal, John Dernbach Jan 2013

U.S. Sustainability Efforts: Modest Progress But An Increasingly Distant Goal, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


As If Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating Progress Toward Sustainability, John Dernbach Jan 2013

As If Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating Progress Toward Sustainability, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Committee On Climate Change, Sustainable Development, And Ecosystems: 2012 Annual Report, John Dernbach Dec 2012

Committee On Climate Change, Sustainable Development, And Ecosystems: 2012 Annual Report, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


It Takes A Global Sustainability Movement, John C. Dernbach Sep 2012

It Takes A Global Sustainability Movement, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Acting As If Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating The Transition To Sustainability, John Dernbach May 2012

Acting As If Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating The Transition To Sustainability, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Next Generation Recycling And Waste Reduction: Building On The Success Of Pennsylvania's 1988 Legislation, John C. Dernbach Dec 2011

Next Generation Recycling And Waste Reduction: Building On The Success Of Pennsylvania's 1988 Legislation, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


The Essential And Growing Role Of Legal Education In Achieving Sustainability, John Dernbach Jan 2011

The Essential And Growing Role Of Legal Education In Achieving Sustainability, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

This article suggests that law schools need to play a leading role in the national and global effort to achieve sustainability, including the effort to address climate change. The article first describes the various drivers for sustainability in law schools. Clients are increasingly demanding that their lawyers 'walk the talk,' as many businesses and corporations already are. The universities that provide an institutional home for most law schools are also adopting sustainability policies and practices that influence their law schools. Within the legal profession, the American Bar Association, as well as many state and local bar associations, have adopted a …


Creating The Law Of Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, John Dernbach Dec 2010

Creating The Law Of Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

This article argues that a key to sustainability is redirecting the law of economic development. From a historical perspective, sustainable development is an effort to integrate environmental protection and restoration with development. As a result, it is not possible to fully understand sustainable development unless we understand what development means. While that term is reasonably well understood at the international level, our closest analogue in the United States is not development in general but rather economic development. A great many recently enacted laws that move the United States toward sustainability can be understood as economic development laws. By understanding these …


Sustainable Trends Offer Reason For Hope In Pennsylvania And Nation, John Dernbach Mar 2009

Sustainable Trends Offer Reason For Hope In Pennsylvania And Nation, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Smart Use Of Resources Makes Good Economic Sense, John Dernbach Mar 2009

Smart Use Of Resources Makes Good Economic Sense, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Book Review (Reviewing Kenneth P. Murchison, The Snail Darter Case: Tva Versus The Endangered Species Act, 2007), John Dernbach Dec 2008

Book Review (Reviewing Kenneth P. Murchison, The Snail Darter Case: Tva Versus The Endangered Species Act, 2007), John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Progress Toward Sustainability: A Report Card And A Recommended Agenda, John Dernbach Dec 2008

Progress Toward Sustainability: A Report Card And A Recommended Agenda, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Agenda For A Sustainable America, John Dernbach Dec 2008

Agenda For A Sustainable America, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Federal Climate Change Legislation As If The States Matter, John C. Dernbach, Robert B. Mckinstry,, Thomas D. Peterson Dec 2007

Federal Climate Change Legislation As If The States Matter, John C. Dernbach, Robert B. Mckinstry,, Thomas D. Peterson

John C. Dernbach

The growing prospect of comprehensive national climate change legislation raises many important questions about the role of state efforts in a national climate change program. This article identifies the key state/federal issues that should be addressed in any comprehensive national comprehensive climate change legislation. It also provides recommendations for resolving these issues. In addition to a cap-and-trade program and uniform national standards for some sectors, federal climate change legislation should adopt and modify the State Implementation Plan model in the Clean Air Act. That is, states should be given responsibility through State Implementation Plans to achieve specified emissions reductions, including …


Developing A Comprehensive Approach To Climate Change Policy In The United States That Fully Integrates Levels Of Government And Economic Sectors, John C. Dernbach, Thomas D. Peterson, Robert B. Mckinstry Dec 2007

Developing A Comprehensive Approach To Climate Change Policy In The United States That Fully Integrates Levels Of Government And Economic Sectors, John C. Dernbach, Thomas D. Peterson, Robert B. Mckinstry

John C. Dernbach

The United State Supreme Court's holding in Massachusetts v. EPA that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act makes it virtually certain that federal climate change legislation will be accomplished by amending that Act. This Article explains and justifies an approach to federal climate legislation that uses and builds on the Act's various tools, including air quality standards, technology-based limitations, and state implementation plans. The Article discusses models for climate response that have emerged from state responses to date and presents the reductions that could be achieved if these were scaled up to the federal level. Federal …


U.S. Policy, John Dernbach Dec 2006

U.S. Policy, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.