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How Can Cities Fight Climate Change and Still Stay Within Legal Guardrails?
The authors of a new book discuss how urban areas can take climate action without running afoul of state and federal laws.
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How Can Communities and Developers Work to Mitigate the Impacts of Big Projects?
A new guide aims to helps developers and communities negotiate agreements that will minimize the impacts of large projects on local people and land.
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How Do We Dismantle Offshore Oil Structures Without Making the Public Pay?
If offshore oil installations are rapidly dismantled as a result of the transition to clean energy, the public, not companies, could end up paying. How to avoid this?
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Montana Young People Have Won a Key Climate Case. What That Means—So Far.
A roundup of perspective on the United States’ first constitutional climate case.
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Climate Lawsuits Are On The Rise. This Is What They’re Based On.
A new report from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the United Nations says that climate litigation has more than doubled in the last five years, and is expected to continue to increase.
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New Report Highlights the Complex Intersection of Antitrust Law and Sustainability Goals
The purpose of this new report is to provoke and support engagement among policymakers, private firms, and the wider public about the ways that competition policy can support sustainable development.
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Model Environmental Justice Bills, Aimed at State Legislators, Are Released
A new framework for legislators and advocates aims to promote environmental justice with exemplary tools to accelerate proposed policy changes.
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New Toolkit Models Climate Litigation Risk
A new report from the Sabin Center provides a climate adaptation toolkit for the insurance industry.
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New Tool Monitors Implementation of Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
New York’s climate law is one of the strongest in the world. A new tracker helps to understand progress in implementing it.
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