The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law develops legal techniques to fight climate change, trains law students and lawyers in their use, and provides the public with up-to-date resources on key topics in climate law and regulation. The center works closely with Columbia University's Earth Institute and with governmental, nongovernmental and academic organizations.
Articles
Municipal Powers Under SEQRA, Michael B. Gerrard
Narratives in Conflicts: Alaska Natives and Offshore Drilling in the Arctic, Michael Burger
New Climate Law Will Reshape NY’s Key Sectors, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
New York Can Lead World in Fighting Climate Change, Michael B. Gerrard
New York Environmental Legislation and Regulations in 2013, Michael B. Gerrard
New York Environmental Legislation in 2017, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
New York Environmental Legislation in 2018, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
New York Environmental Legislation in 2019, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
New York Environmental Legislation in 2021, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
New York’s New Congestion Pricing Law, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
New York’s New Statute on Siting Renewable Energy Facilities, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
New York's Revived Power Plant Siting Law Preempts Local Control, Michael B. Gerrard
New York State Leading on Utility Climate Change Adaptation, Ethan Strell and Christine Fazio
Next Mayor Will Inherit Job of Implementing 2019 Law Setting Building Emissions Caps, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Obama Reelection Clears Path for Numerous New EPA Regulations, Michael B. Gerrard
Overcoming Impediments to Offshore CO2 Storage: Legal Issues in the U.S. and Canada, Romany M. Webb and Michael B. Gerrard
Patterns of Climate Change Litigation During Trump Era, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Planning for the Effects of Climate Change on Natural Resources, Jessica A. Wentz
Potential Tensions Between New York’s Climate Change Laws and Historic Preservation Laws, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Presidential Progress on Climate Change: Will the Courts Interfere With What Needs to Be Done to Save Our Planet?, Michael B. Gerrard
Recent Developments Under State Environmental Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard
Reconciling International Investment Law and Climate Change Policy: Potential Liability for Climate Measures Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Meredith Wilensky
Recovering from the Recovery Narrative: On Glocalism, Green Jobs and Cyborg Civilization, Michael Burger
Reducing Legal Hurdles to Combined Heat and Power in New York, Michael B. Gerrard
Reflections on Environmental Justice, Michael B. Gerrard
Reframing Global Biodiversity Protection after COVID-19: Is International Environmental Law up to the Task?, Maria Antonia Tigre, Natalia Urzola, and Victoria Lichet
Regulation of Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals in New York, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Reverse Environmental Impact Analysis: Effect of Climate Change on Projects, Michael B. Gerrard
Review of 2020 Cases Under SEQRA, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Sabin Center Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Plan, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Sadly, the Paris Agreement Isn't Nearly Enough, Michael B. Gerrard
Science Heads List of Candidate Debate Queries, Michael B. Gerrard
Smart Surfaces, Smart Cities: Reducing Heat and Promoting Equity in Urban Areas, Hillary Aidun
Solving the CSO Conundrum: Green Infrastructure and the Unfulfilled Promise of Federal-Municipal Cooperation, Casswell F. Holloway, Carter H. Strickland Jr., Michael B. Gerrard, and Daniel M. Firger
State Authority in NY to Preempt Local Laws Regulating Renewable Energy Projects, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
State Bar Task Force: 22 New York Actions to Address Climate Change, Michael B. Gerrard
State Dynamism, Federal Constraints: Possible Constitutional Hurdles to Cross-Border Cap-and-Trade, Shelley Welton
State Public Utility Commissions' Powers to Advance Energy Efficiency, Michael B. Gerrard
Stricter Rules on Storm Water Discharges Taking Effect, Michael B. Gerrard
Survey of 2012 Cases Under State Environmental Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard
Survey of 2013 Cases Under State Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard
Survey of 2016 Cases Under New York State Environmental Quality Review Act, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Survey of Climate Change Litigation, Michael B. Gerrard
Survey of SEQRA Cases from 2007, Michael B. Gerrard
Sustainable Development and the Brazilian Judge, Gabriel Wedy
Taking from States: Sovereign Immunity's Preclusive Effect on Private Takings of State Land, Jennifer Danis and Michael Bloom
Teaching Intrapersonal Intelligence as a Lawyering Skill: Introducing Values Systems into the Environmental Law Syllabus, Michael Burger
Territoriality, Risk Perception, and Counterproductive Legal Structures: The Case of Waste Facility Siting, Michael B. Gerrard
The 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Significance and Implications for the Future, Hari Osofsky, Lisa Benjamin, Michael B. Gerrard, Jacqueline Peel, and David Titley
The Application of Open Records Laws to Publicly Funded Science, Lauren Kurtz
The Benefits and Risks of Going It Alone, Michael B. Gerrard
The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of the World Trade Center and the Fate of New York, Michael B. Gerrard
The Dynamics of Secrecy in the Environmental Impact Statement Process, Michael B. Gerrard
The Effect of NEPA Outside the Courtroom, Michael B. Gerrard
The Energy Improvement of the Urban Existing Building Stock: A Proposal for Action Arising from Best Practice Examples, Teresa Parejo-Navajas
The Environment in New York State, Michael B. Gerrard and Claire H. Woods
The Law and Science of Climate Change Attribution, Michael Burger, Jessica A. Wentz, and Radley Horton
The Law and Science of Climate Change Attribution, Michael Burger, Jessica A. Wentz, and Radley Horton
The Law on What Documents Scientists Must Keep and Disclose, Michael B. Gerrard and Elizabeth Sheargold
The Obama Administration's First Environmental Policy Changes, Michael B. Gerrard
The Past, Present and Future of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act as a Tool of Environmental Justice, Michael B. Gerrard, Nicholas Johnson, Peggy Shepard, Melva J. Hayden, Sheila Foster, and Elizabeth Georges
The Perils of Relying on FEMA Flood Maps in Real Estate Transactions, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
The (Re)Federalization of Fracking Regulation, Michael Burger
The Role of Existing Environmental Laws in the Environmental Justice Movement, Michael B. Gerrard
The Role of Lawyers in Decarbonizing Society, Michael B. Gerrard
The Victims of Nimby, Michael B. Gerrard
Three Legal Visions of a ‘Green New Deal’, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Three Major Developments in International Climate Change Law, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan
Trends in the Supply and Demand for Environmental Lawyers, Michael B. Gerrard
US Federal Climate Change Law in Obama’s Second Term, Michael B. Gerrard and Shelley Welton
What Litigation of a Climate Nuisance Suit Might Look Like, Michael B. Gerrard
What’s Ahead for Power Plants and Industry? Using the Clean Air Act to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Building on Existing Regional Programs, Franz T. Litz, Nicholas Bianco, Michael B. Gerrard, and Gregory E. Wannier
When Politics Trump Science: The Erosion of Science-Based Regulation, Romany M. Webb, Lauren Kurtz, and Susan Rosenthal
Will Greenhouse Gas Rules Prohibit New Coal Power Plants?, Christine Fazio and Ethan Strell
Books
Amending CERCLA: The Post-SARA Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, Michael B. Gerrard and Joel M. Gross
Brownfields Law and Practice: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Land, Michael B. Gerrard
Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management and Carbon Dioxide Removal, Michael B. Gerrard and Tracy Hester
Environmental Impact Review in New York, Michael B. Gerrard, Philip Weinberg, and Daniel A. Ruzow
Environmental Law Practice Guide: State and Federal Law, Michael B. Gerrard
Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, Michael B. Gerrard and Jody Freeman
Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach
The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change: U.S. and International Aspects, Michael B. Gerrard and Katrina Fischer Kuh
The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables, Michael B. Gerrard
The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks, Michael B. Gerrard and Sheila R. Foster
The Law of Green Buildings: Regulatory and Legal Issues in Design, Construction, Operations, and Financing, J. Cullen Howe and Michael B. Gerrard
Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate, Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier
Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting, Michael B. Gerrard
Book Reviews
Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet, Michael Burger
Notes
Climate Change and Forced Displacement, Jessica A. Wentz
Designing a Climate Change Displacement Coordination Facility: Key Issues for COP 21, Jessica A. Wentz and Michael Burger
Shopping for State Constitutions: Unequal Gift Clauses as Obstacles to Optimal State Encouragement of Carbon Sequestration, Nicholas Houpt
Papers
10 Questions to Ask About the Proposed “Global Pact for the Environment”, Susan Biniaz
Act Locally, Reflect Globally: a Checklist of Options for U.S. Cities and States to Engage Internationally in Climate Action, Susan Biniaz
Addressing the Energy Efficiency Financing Challenge: The Role and Limitations of a Green Bank, Christopher Angell
After Madrid, W[h]ither the COP?, Susan Biniaz
A Mitigation Based Rationale for Incorporating a Climate Change Impacts Fee into the Federal Coal Leasing Program, Michael Burger
Analysis of California, Washington, and New York Insurer Climate Risk Surveys for the 2011 Reporting Year, Irene Shulman
Appliance and Equipment Efficiency Standards: A Roadmap for State and Local Action, Peter Ross