Andrew Kieffer

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Andrew Kieffer is a Fellow with the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.

Federal Court Enjoins DOI’s Anti-Renewable Actions in Renew Northeast v. DOI

Earlier this week, on April 21, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts enjoined five secretarial orders issued by the Department of the Interior (“DOI”) and U.S. Army Corps (“USACE”) that collectively imposed sweeping constraints on wind and solar development across the United States. The Sabin Center’s […]

The Energy Justice Resistance: How States Can Counteract Federal Attacks on Community Benefits Plans

  The Biden Administration tied historic federal clean energy funding in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Law (IIJA) and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to a local benefits framework through the Department of Energy’s Community Benefits Plan (CBP) requirements. The Trump Administration’s rapid rescission of CBP requirements, […]