Faculty News
faculty news continued to Subvert American Democracy, Huffington Post Greenblog, May 10, 2013 • W e Need a Mercury Treaty with Teeth, Guardian/ Huffington Post, January 11, 2013 Selected Accomplishments:
• A rrested in a protest of the Keystone XL Pipeline outside of the White House • S uccessfully delayed a plan to allow fracking after a series of phone calls with Governor Cuomo. Sources: Cuomo Came Close on Fracking Plan: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tells AP That Governor Changed Course to Await Health Study Results, Times Union, March 2, 2013 • C hair of the Board of Waterkeeper Alliance • C hief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund • S enior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, directing NRDC’s Estuary Enforcement Project
Selected Presentations:
• P lenary speaker at the 23rd annual SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing in October
Professor and Pace Energy and Climate Center Executive Director Franz Litz Selected Publications:
• C an the U.S. Get There From Here? Using Existing Federal Laws and State Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (February 2013, World Resources Institute) (co-authored)
Selected Accomplishments:
• P ace Energy and Climate Center representative at COP18 in Doha, briefing delegations on latest WRIPace analysis on reductions possible in the United States without new legislation • N RDC panelist at the National Press Club in D.C. on NRDC’s Clean Air Act proposal to reduce emissions from existing power plants • G uest lecturer for the International Carbon Action Partnership’s (ICAP’s) Training Course on Emissions Trading in Rotterdam, Netherlands • C onvenes a group of officials from 20 states preparing for forthcoming EPA carbon pollution standards from power plants • F acilitates and advises a group of utilities, electric generating companies, environmental groups, and state officials in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region engaging EPA and other states on forthcoming EPA regulations to reduce carbon pollution from power plants
Quotable Quotes:
• R omney Shifted Right on Energy as Presidential Politics Beckoned, N.Y. Times, Sept. 29, 2012 • O bama Should Cut Emissions without Congress, Group Says, U.S. News, Dec. 4, 2012 • E PA Rules May Create New Opportunities for US Carbon Traders, Energy Risk, Aug. 15, 2013 16 Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Professor Jeffrey G. Miller Selected Publications:
• C lean Water Act Jurisdiction: An Interpretive Quartet (forthcoming) • Introduction to Environmental law: Cases & Materials on Water Pollution Control (co-authored with Ann Powers and Nancy Long Elder, forthcoming) • 25th Annual National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition Problem
Professor John R. Nolon Selected Publications:
• L and Use and Climate Change: Lawyers Negotiating Above Regulation, -Brook. L. Rev. -- (forthcoming 2013) • Land Use for Energy Conservation and Sustainable Development: A New Path Towards Climate Change Mitigation, 27 J. Land Use & Envtl L. 295 (2012), in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (Thomson Reuters 2012-2013) • Managing Climate Change Through Biological Sequestration: Open Space Law Redux, 31 Stan. Envtl. L. Rev. 195 (2012), in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (Thomson Reuters 2012-2013) • Regulatory Takings and Property Rights Confront Sea Level Rise: How Do They Roll?, 21 Widener L. Rev. 735 (2012) • Land Use for Energy Conservation and Sustainable Development: A New Path Toward Climate Change Mitigation, 27 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 295 (2012) • Hydrofracking--Disturbances Both Geological and Political: Who Decides?, 44 Urb. Law 507 (2012) • Greenlaw blogs building upon his essay in the 20th anniversary issue of the Fordham Environmental Law Review exploring ten fundamental paradigm shifts in land use and environmental law that have occurred during the past twenty years: *F rom Top-down Environmental Law to Bottom-up Land Use Strategies * From One to Many American Dreams *F rom Rushing to the Shore to Retreating from the Sea * From Regulation to Contingency Bargaining * From Coal and Oil to Gas *F rom a Fragmented to Integrated Federal System: Two Steps Forward
Selected Accomplishments:
• C reated a suite of five land use and environmental law courses that have become a core curricular offering for Masters degrees in Environmental Management candidates at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Land Use Law Center staff attorneys assist him in teaching, lecturing, and supervising students involved in these courses at F&ES. • Submitted an amicus brief with nine other law professors in Norse Energy v. Town of Dryden, a New York State hydrofracking case