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The Political Economy Of Climate Change Winners, J.B. Ruhl
The Political Economy Of Climate Change Winners, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Many people and businesses in the United States stand to receive market and nonmarket benefits from climate change as it moves forward over the next 100 years. Speaking of climate change benefits is not for polite 'green' conversation, but ignoring them as climate policy dialogue and legal scholarship consistently have" will not make them go away. It is important to take climate change benefits into account if they lead people and businesses to believe that climate change will not be so bad for them, or even to believe it has made them into climate change winners. Thus, whereas legal scholars …
Allocating Responsibility For The Failure Of Global Warming Policies, W. Kip Viscusi, Joni Hersch
Allocating Responsibility For The Failure Of Global Warming Policies, W. Kip Viscusi, Joni Hersch
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
A recent series of climate change lawsuits has sought to mimic the "regulation through litigation" approach of the claims brought by the states against cigarette manufacturers. What is distinctive about the cigarette cases relative to conventional tort claims is that they were not brought on behalf of individual smokers, but rather sought to recoup the Medicaid-related costs of smoking. A parallel climate change litigation approach seeks payments from public utilities, energy producers, and other parties responsible for greenhouse gas emissions to reflect the long-term societal damages that the plaintiffs claim will be caused by this pollution. While environmental litigation of …
Allocating Responsibility For The Failure Of Global Warming Policies, Joni Hersch, W. Kip Viscusi
Allocating Responsibility For The Failure Of Global Warming Policies, Joni Hersch, W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
A recent series of climate change lawsuits has sought to mimic the "regulation through litigation" approach of the claims brought by the states against cigarette manufacturers. What is distinctive about the cigarette cases relative to conventional tort claims is that they were not brought on behalf of individual smokers, but rather sought to recoup the Medicaid-related costs of smoking. A parallel climate change litigation approach seeks payments from public utilities, energy producers, and other parties responsible for greenhouse gas emissions to reflect the long-term societal damages that the plaintiffs claim will be caused by this pollution. While environmental litigation of …