Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2015

Summary: The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in . Michigan v. EPA. is a shift for this historically Clean Air Act-friendly Court. It is the first “anti-environmental” decision in the CAA realm since their 2007. Massachusetts v. EPA. ruling. Here, the Court concluded that EPA must consider compliance costs when determining . whether to . regulate toxic emissions from power plants, rather than consider the cost when determining . how to . regulate emissions.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2015

By Michael Greenberg, Sabin Center Summer Intern. Pope Francis’ June 18 encyclical Laudato Si’ , On Care for Our Common Home includes a section about the economics of carbon mitigation. Although a small part of the encyclical—one paragraph out of 246—the pope’s economic prescription received extensive coverage from top newspapers such as the Washington Post and New York Times.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 6, 2015

Grant Glovin, Sabin Center Summer Intern. Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. The plan appears ambitious: the solar power expansion alone would represent a sevenfold increase in the country’s current solar generating capacity.

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