Monthly Archives: May 2016

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Massachusetts Supreme Court Orders State to Go Much Further in Reducing GHGs

The Columbia Environmental Law Clinic wins a critically important case involving the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts. Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released a unanimous decision ordering the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to take additional measures to implement the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. Specifically, […]

Local Laws for Climate Change Adaptation: New Sabin Center Resource for New York Municipalities

New York’s 2014 Community Risk and Resiliency Act (CRRA) instructs the Department of State and the Department of Environmental Conservation to create model local laws that local governments can use in developing and implementing climate change adaptation policies related to sea level rise and flood risk. The Sabin Center’s new […]

India’s Federal and Regional Governments May Not Ignore Disastrous Drought Conditions: Indian Supreme Court

Justin Gundlach Climate Law Fellow In an opinion issued on May 11, 2016, a two-judge panel of India’s Supreme Court chastised that country’s federal and regional governments for their recent responses to severe droughts, which the Court said contravene key provisions of the National Disaster Mitigation Act of 2005 (DM […]

Increasing Number of Investigations into Fossil Fuel Industry’s “Disinformation Campaign”

In recent months, there has been a growing succession of actual and proposed investigations into fossil fuel companies, and their purported collaborators, over whether these groups lied to the public or investors about the risks of climate change. The investigations come amid a series of reports that the fossil fuel […]

Offshore Drilling Plan: Sabin Center Asks BOEM to Consider Downstream GHG Emissions, Social Cost of Carbon, and Consistency with Federal Climate Goals

By Jessica Wentz and Michael Burger The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has proposed a leasing program to continue oil and gas production on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for the next five years. BOEM estimates that the program could result in the production of up to 13,139 million […]