Author: Sabin Center for Climate Change Law7
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Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Scientists Serving on EPA Advisory Boards is Illegal
Pruitt’s policy runs counter to existing conflict-of-interests law, and is on its face arbitrary and capricious.
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Can Fossil Fuel Companies Be Held Liable For Climate Change?
Like Big Tobacco, fossil fuel companies have knowingly sold a product that causes harm while covering up and distorting the truth. Can they be sued for climate-related damages?
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Former Head of EPA Looks to Businesses, Courts, and Citizens to Fight Climate Change
In a lecture at Columbia Law School, Gina McCarthy sharply critiqued the Trump administration’s environmental policies, but offered hope that grassroots movements and other branches of government can make a difference.
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In Florida and Texas, Keeping the Lights on Means Planning for Climate Change
New York’s lessons from Hurricane Sandy can help in the wake of Harvey and Irma.
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11 Questions Hurricane Harvey Raises About Climate Change Law and Policy
From managing flood insurance to controlling toxic pollutants, these policy issues will influence how well Texas can bounce back from the disaster, and how we’ll handle such storms in the future.
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Tracking the Undoing of Climate-Change Measures
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching a new tool to identify and explain the efforts taken by the incoming administration to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.
