The legal landscape around climate change is complex, unstable, and expanding. Scientists continue to publish new findings, policy makers regularly adopt new regulations, and petitioners file new litigation, nationwide and around the world. Hence the need for this third edition. Most of it is completely new, and the few chapters carried over from the second edition have been thoroughly updated. This edition explores the following topics:Overview and Context:
Introduction and The Multilateral Climate Regime
U.S. Federal Regulation and Litigation:
Evolution of U.S. Climate Law and Policy
Regulation of Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act
Non-CO2 Pollutants
Environmental Impact Assessment
Climate Justice
Endangered Species Act
Climate-Related Financial Risk Management and Disclosure
Civil Remedies
Regional, State, and Local Actions:
State and Multistate Climate Action
Local Initiatives
Energy Regulation
Electricity Regulation, Markets, and Governance
Land Use and Transportation Policies Addressing Climate Change
The Next Legal Frontiers
Carbon Capture and Sequestration and Carbon Dioxide Removal
Agriculture
Climate Change and Public Natural Resources
Climate Adaptation Law
U.S. Climate Change Law and Policy: Taking Stock
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 251 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 43 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-63905-219-6 (9781639052196)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Michael B. Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of
Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, and founder and Faculty Director
of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He is a member and former chair of
the faculty of the Columbia Earth Institute, and of the American Bar
Association's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. From 1979 through
2008 he practiced environmental law full time in New York, most recently as
partner in charge of the New York office of Arnold & Porter, handling
litigation, transactions, and regulatory compliance. He is author or editor of 13
books on environmental law.
Jody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a leading scholar of environmental and administrative law. She established the Law School's Environmental Law Clinic and its Environmental and Energy Law Research Program. Freeman served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House and worked for the Biden transition team developing the administration's climate action plan. Ms. Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an independent director on the board of ConocoPhillips, an oil and gas producer. Jody currently lives in Cambridge, MA.
Michael Burger is the Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School. He is co-author of Urban Climate Law (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), and editor of Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act: Law and Policy Rationales (Edward Elgar, 2020) and Climate Change, Public Health and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is a Fellow and Regent of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Overview and Context
Introduction and Overview
The Multilateral Climate Regime
Part II: U.S. Federal Regulation and Litigation
Evolution of U.S. Climate Law and Policy
Regulation of Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act
Non-CO2 Pollutants
Environmental Impact Assessment
Climate Justice
Endangered Species Act
Climate-Related Financial Risk Management and Disclosure
Civil Remedies
Part III: Regional, State, and Local Actions
State and Multistate Climate Action
Local Initiatives
Part IV: Energy Regulation
Electricity Regulation, Markets, and Governance
Land Use and Transportation Policies Addressing Climate Change
Part V: The Next Legal Frontiers
Carbon Capture and Sequestration and Carbon Dioxide Removal
Agriculture
Climate Change and Public Natural Resources
Climate Adaptation Law
U.S. Climate Change Law and Policy: Taking Stock