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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...
Environmental Litigation Clinic’s Clients Again Catch Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Company Falsifying Discharge Monitoring Reports
Daniel E. Estrin, Supervising Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic Adjunct Professor of Law, Pace Law School BREAKING NEWS: For the second time in four years, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic's clients have caught Frasure Creek Mining, LLC in the act of...
Using Zoning to Protect the Environment: An excerpt from Protecting the Environment through Land Use Law: Standing Ground
Municipalities across the nation are incorporating natural resource preservation principles into their zoning ordinances. They are not doing so uniformly, but their collective progress is impressive. Some local legislatures describe the protection of the natural...
Costs and Consequences of Climate Change: Land Use Climate Change Bubbles: Part II
Land Use Climate Bubbles are emerging in every region of the country that should rivet the attention of policy makers. In numerous communities, property values are declining because of repeated flooding, continued threats of storm surges, sustained high temperatures,...
The Remarkable case of Sidney, New York
Sidney is in retreat. Situated next to the Susquehanna River in the Catskill Mountains of New York, the village was built on a floodplain on the south side of the river. In 2006, Sidney was hit by a record-breaking storm that dropped 14 inches of rain over the upper...