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Staff News: Dan Metzger Joins the Sabin Center as a Smart Surfaces Fellow for the Cities Climate Law Initiative

Dan has joined the Sabin Center as a Smart Surfaces Fellow, as part of our Cities Climate Law Initiative. His work will focus on facilitating the adoption of reflective roofs and pavements, porous pavements, green roofs, solar PV and more at the metropolitan and community level. Before joining the center […]

Sabin Center Releases Its Winter/Spring 2023 Semi-annual Report

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Winter/Spring 2023 Semi-annual Report, which includes a summary of the Center’s key activities between January and June 2023. It is available for download here. Below are some highlights from the report: The Sabin Center launched two new online tools – the […]

Staff News: Isabel Tañedo Joins the Sabin Center as Assistant Director of Operations

Isabel has joined the Sabin Center as its Assistant Director of Operations. In this role, she designs and manages processes related to budgets, grants, contracts and other business operations. Isabel previously held positions at Achievement First, a public charter school network serving 41 schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, where […]

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New Inflation Reduction Act Tracker Launched by the Sabin Center and EDF

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to […]

Staff News: Ilmi Granoff Joins the Sabin Center as a Senior Fellow

Ilmi Granoff has joined the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law as a Senior Fellow. Ilmi is an attorney and climate and sustainable finance expert with over two decades of experience—spanning public, private, and third-sector institutions—working on the policy and financing of the transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas, sustainable economy. […]

RELDI Files Amicus Brief in Support of New York State’s Renewable Energy Siting Regulations

On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI), in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable […]

Sabin Center’s Amy Turner Tapped for NYC Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board

On December 8, New York City Mayor Eric Adams appointed 26 board members to the New York City Sustainability Advisory Board to guide the city’s long-term resiliency and sustainability goals. Sabin Center senior fellow Amy Turner is among the new board members. The board will advise Chief Climate Officer and […]