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The Importance of Learning, and Reducing, Your Carbon Footprint
Written By: Michael P. Cavanaugh, Environmental Law Graduate Fellow On October 8, 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report, Global Warming of 1.5 °C. The report analyzed the impacts of global warming 1.5°C and 2°C above...
Pace Law Student Clinic Brings Law to Food and Drink
Written By: Siyi Shen, Global Environmental Law Graduate Fellow How can lawyers help food providers? Or farm owners? Or even craft beer producers? Students at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University have the chance to answer these questions by...
Breaking an Unsustainable Fad: Taking the Steps to Curb Our Use of Plastic One Plastic Straw at a Time
Written By: Michael P. Cavanaugh, Environmental Law Graduate Fellow The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest offshore plastic accumulation zone in the world’s oceans and located between Hawaii and California, is now three times the size of France and growing.[1]...
Pruitt’s Arbitrary Cost Accounting is Built into the Concept of Cost Benefit Analysis
EPA Adminstrator Scott Pruitt announced yesterday that today he will propose the repeal of the Obama-EPA Clean Power Plan, which required a system of carbon-emissions reductions by power plants to mitigate climate harms. The CPP was a good first step to obtain modest...
Carbon Tax based on Social Cost of Carbon: Cost Benefit Analysis in Disguise?
Bangla Desh Flooding David Robert's second installment of his ruminations on carbon taxes is out here, and is worth a read. Shorter David Roberts: a $10 per ton carbon tax based on low estimates of the social cost of carbon is still well beyond what U.S. households...
Earth Week, Tax Week, Carbon Tax
(reposted from the old Green Law web site- originally posted 4/22/16) I see that both David Roberts and Paul Krugman have been writing about carbon pricing -- specifically carbon taxes -- this week as a mechanism to achieve the dramatic energy transition needed to...
Cataloguing Impacts Of The Shale Boom: A Foundation For Local Governance
Pace Law School’s Land Use Law Center and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) are collaborating to identify the distinctly local impacts of hydraulic fracturing and how local governments can respond where they are not satisfied that...
“Zoning In” Water Conservation
As we approach zoning’s centennial in 2016, the Land Use Law Center at Pace Law School is examining what is durable and what is deficient in land use regulation today. As times change, zoning must renew itself by adjusting to changing conditions. Among the many...
A “New” Strategy for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption: Sustainable Human Settlements
As climate negotiators prepare for their discussions in Lima, they must focus on one of the most neglected strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change: creating sustainable human settlements. My work for a land use law center embedded in a law school with...