by Shelley Welton, Deputy Director & Fellow As I blogged about last October, the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is currently undergoing its 2012 program review. This review will look at many aspects of the program’s design and functioning, with the aim of determining whether major reforms are necessary […]
By Adam Riedel, CCCL Associate Director The insurance commissioners in three states, California, New York and Washington, have announced that they will require insurance companies in their respective states to complete a 12-question survey on the risks to insurers posed by climate change. California administered the survey in 2009 and […]
By Adam Riedel, CCCL Associate Director With much fanfare and angst, on January 18 the Obama administration denied a permit for the hotly contested Keystone pipeline which would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries in the Gulf Coast of the U.S. The decision over the pipeline […]
By Julia Dobtsis, Fall 2011 CCCL Extern The Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School has added an energy facility litigation database to its research resources. This new resource collects and organizes in one central database energy cases spanning the years 2005 through 2011, and contains a total […]
By Alexis Saba, CCCL Fellow There has been a flurry of discussion about the value of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the annual Framework meeting, the Conference of the Parties. After attending the COP17 in Durban, I too raise the same question, especially after recognizing one […]
The Town of New Castle, New York has adopted a comprehensive green building law that is designed to create a more sustainable community by incorporating green building measures into the design, construction, and maintenance of buildings. The New Castle Town Board voted unanimously to adopt the law on December 13, […]
By Alexis Saba, CCCL Fellow With the fruit of two weeks of negotiations being an agreement to try to agree in the future, some would say not too much happened at the UN climate conference in Durban. However, on a day-to-day basis, a lot happened in Durban. It was 90 […]
by Shelley Welton, Deputy Director & Fellow MIT released an interdisciplinary study on December 5, 2011, that examines “The Future of the Electric Grid.” Among many interesting findings, it nicely details the challenges we will face in adapting the electric grid to accommodate all the anticipated renewable resources coming on-line […]