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From Paris To Pittsburgh: U.S. State And Local Leadership In An Era Of Trump, Vicki Arroyo
From Paris To Pittsburgh: U.S. State And Local Leadership In An Era Of Trump, Vicki Arroyo
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
States and cities have long been leaders on clean energy and climate policy. Their work has informed development of federal policies including motor vehicle standards and the Clean Power Plan. With the election of President Trump and the increasingly severe impacts of climate change, subnational leadership has become even more important and urgent. In response, many states and cities have pledged to enact new policies to mitigate the effects of climate change and help communities adapt. This Article focuses on recent developments in subnational leadership on both climate mitigation and adaptation to demonstrate the breadth and depth of engagement by …
Clean Energy Justice: Charting An Emerging Agenda, Shelley Welton, Joel Eisen
Clean Energy Justice: Charting An Emerging Agenda, Shelley Welton, Joel Eisen
Faculty Publications
The rapid transition to clean energy is fraught with potential inequities. As clean energy policies ramp up in scale and ambition, they confront challenging new questions: Who should pay for the transition? Who should live next to the industrial-scale wind and solar farms these policies promote? Will the new “green” economy be a fairer one, with more widespread opportunity, than the fossil fuel economy it is replacing? Who gets to decide what kinds of resources power our decarbonized world? In this article, we assert that it is useful to understand these challenges collectively, as part of an emerging agenda of …