Publications

Highlights from the Climate Law Blog • Key Elements of the SEC’s Proposed

Climate-Related Disclosure Rule, by Romany Webb • With Two New Policy Statements, FERC

Recommits to Ensuring Gas Infrastructure

Projects Serve the Public Interest, by Jennifer Danis and Romany Webb • Federal Oil and Gas Leasing in the Courts:

Why Recent Losses Could Actually be

Good News for the Biden Administration, by Romany Webb • In a first for climate nuisance claims, a

Hawai‘i state court allowed Honolulu to proceed with its case against fossil fuel companies, by Korey Silverman-Roati • Local Government Associations File Brief to The Supreme Court in Support of EPA’s

Clean Air Act Authority, by Jacob Elkin • Cooperative Federalism, As Applied:

Building Electrification, by Amy Turner • Local Government Associations

File Brief to Ninth Circuit in Support of Berkley, California’s Natural Gas

Restriction, by Amy Turner,

Michael Burger and Jennifer Danis • Guest Commentary: Brazil will have first climate litigation trials in the Supreme

Court, by Isabela Soares Bicalho,

Gabriel Mantelli, Maria Antonia Tigre and Carmem Añon Brasolin

• Guest Commentary: Inter-American

Commission on Human Rights’ first resolution on the climate emergency: implications for climate litigation, by Pedro Cisterna-Gaete and

Maria Antonia Tigre • Australian Federal Court dismisses the novel duty of care previously found in

Sharma: what does it mean for future climate litigation in Australia?, by Maria Antonia Tigre • New Jersey Board of Public Utilities

Should Join New York and Other States

Engaging in Long Term Planning to

Get Off of Gas, by Jennifer Danis

Media Mentions and Interviews

Sabin Center experts were interviewed and/ or quoted directly or mentioned via one of the products produced by the Center in approximately 50 media and news items.

Highlights

• How an Electric Truck Factory

Became a Lightning Rod in Georgia,

The New York Times

In this article, Michael Burger underlines the question of trade-off in the electric vehicle factory discussion as well as with respect to renewable energy all across the country, stating it’s “always going to be a case-by-case question of whether the trade-off is viable.”

• New Biden NEPA regs won’t stop legal war over Trump overhaul, Politico Pro

Michael Gerrard and Jennifer Danis comment on the Biden administration’s new environmental regulations and what that means for climate litigation and the future of agency rulemaking. • As economists warn of mounting climate change costs, Biden seeks to price damages,

PBS News

Romany Webb weighs in on the

Biden administration’s potential impact of imposing a cost on climaterelated damages. • A busy stretch in climate litigation, Axios

Korey Silverman-Roati is quoted on the implications of a 10th circuit ruling in a climate nuisance case against fossil fuel companies. • Decision on Finger Lakes crypto mine is Gov.

Hachul’s ‘fracking moment’, Syracuse.com

Jacob Elkin’s paper on crypto mining facilities is mentioned in this article, in a bid to press New York to impose a moratorium on crypto mining power plants.

• Brookline wants a fossil-free future. With latest ruling, the AG says: Not yet (again),

Boston Globe

Amy Turner comments on the Attorney

General Maura Healey’s ruling that the town of Brookline’s efforts to use zoning bylaws to stop fossil fuels in new buildings violated state law.

• The Supreme Court v. a Livable Planet,

Sierra

In this article, Michael Gerrard weighs in on the Supreme Court’s decision to take the West Virginia v. EPA case, stating it is

“extremely unusual to take a case at this procedural stage.” • Rattling comfort zones: How judges are responding to climate litigation, The Wave

This article highlights Dr. Maria Antonia

Tigre’s analysis of the significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. • How FERC, courts may change pipeline industry in 2022, E&E News

In this article, Jennifer Danis explains

FERC’s capacity in regulating new pipeline projects. • Date set for first youth-led climate trial in

U.S. history, NBC News

In this article, Michael Burger comments on legal recourse when “other systems fail.” It also cites the Sabin Center’s climate case chart website to demonstrate that climate lawsuits around the world are increasing.