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Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: Massachusetts Leads the Way in Ensuring Biomass Facilities Reduce GHG Emissions
Posted on 24 May 2012 by Columbia Law - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

By Julia Ciardullo, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School On April 27, 2012, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) published a proposed final regulation regarding the use of forest biomass for generating energy... Read More

Tags: carbon dividend , thinning , alternative energy , Massachusetts , Sustainability , Julia Ciardullo , Renewable Energy , clean power , Columbia Law Climate Change , greenhouse gases , biomass , renewable energy certificates

Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: The Climate Battle Continues - Two Senate Bills Seek to Block EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
Posted on 10 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Julia Ciardullo, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School With the 112th Congress now in session, Senators from both parties have already introduced legislation that would block EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases ... Read More

Tags: GHG , Climate Change , Tailoring Rule , Prevention of Significant Deterioration , Julia Ciardullo , Clean Air Act , Columbia Law School , greenhouse gases , EPA , global warming

Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: AEP v. Connecticut - A Comparison Of The Briefs Filed By The Defendant Electric Utilities
Posted on 11 Mar 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Julia Ciardullo, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School O n January 31, 2011, five investor-owned utilities[1] (Petitioners) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), an electric utility owned by the US government, filed separate... Read More

Tags: public nuisance , American Electric Power Co. Inc. v. Connecticut , electric utilities , Climate Change , nuisance , Julia Ciardullo

Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: Virginia Court to Decide the First Climate Change-Related Insurance Coverage Case
Posted on 21 May 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Julia Ciardullo, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School On April 19, 2011, the same day the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in American Electric Power Co. Inc., et al., v. Connecticut, et al. , the Supreme Court... Read More

Tags: Duty to Defend , insurance coverage , public nuisance , AES v. Steadfast , pollution exclusion , Climate Change , Julia Ciardullo , occurrence , Kivalina v. ExxonMobil , global warming