by Cullen Howe & Danielle Sugarman Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law (CCCL) has prepared a first draft of a model municipal wind siting ordinance (PDF). The model ordinance presents a framework for the adoption, implementation and enforcement of standards to promote effective and efficient use of wind […]
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Daniel Firger Associate Director This article first appeared in The Huffington Post It’s not yet February and the biggest climate change story of the year may already be written. The story is simple enough–as the U.S. drags its heels on clean energy, China marches ahead. China’s leaders may be concerned […]
Daniel Firger Associate Director The Supreme Court on January 10 issued an order denying plaintiffs’ petition for mandamus in Comer v. Murphy Oil, a closely-watched case arising out of damage to Gulf Coast properties as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The order, issued with no comment by the Court, marks […]
The Colorado Public Utility Commission (CPUC) issued formal written orders on December 15 approving two utilities’ plans, pursuant to a new state clean air law, to shut down a number of coal burning power plants across the state. Under the orders, Xcel Energy, the state’s largest power provider, will decommission […]
Daniel M. Firger Associate Director Foreign companies are buying up U.S. coal mines. In a statement on November 12, the chairman of Coal India Ltd., a state-controlled entity and the world’s largest coal producer, with a near-monopoly on Indian coal mining, confirmed that the firm was in talks with several […]
Michael B. Gerrard Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice Director, Center for Climate Change Law The midterm elections on November 2 yielded significant results at the state level. As readers of this blog are aware, California voters faced a ballot measure called Proposition 23, which would have frozen implementation of […]
Julia Ciardullo Fellow EPA’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act (CAA) have come under attack by some opponents of climate regulation as an “aggressive” and “unprecedented” program of rulemakings.[1] In fact, EPA issued far more regulations to implement the CAA Amendments of 1990. The attached […]
Daniel M. Firger Associate Director California voters handily defeated Proposition 23 on election day, ensuring that state regulators can move forward on implementation of A.B. 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Just last week, the California Air Resources Board issued a Proposed Regulation Order establishing a statewide cap-and-trade […]