Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, Third

Michael B. Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, and founder and Faculty Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He is a member and former chair of the faculty of the Columbia Earth Institute, and of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. From 1979 through 2008 he practiced environmental law full time in New York, most recently as partner in charge of the New York office of Arnold & Porter, handling litigation, transactions, and regulatory compliance. He is author or editor of 13 books on environmental law. Jody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a leading scholar of environmental and administrative law. She established the Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic and its Environmental and Energy Law Research Program. Freeman served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House and worked for the Biden transition team developing the administration’s climate action plan. Ms. Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an independent director on the board of ConocoPhillips, an oil and gas producer. Jody currently lives in Cambridge, MA.  Michael Burger is the Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School. He is co-author of Urban Climate Law (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), and editor of Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act: Law and Policy Rationales (Edward Elgar, 2020) and Climate Change, Public Health and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is a Fellow and Regent of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. 

Table of Contents:



Part I: Overview and Context


Introduction and Overview
The Multilateral Climate Regime
Part II: U.S. Federal Regulation and Litigation


Evolution of U.S. Climate Law and Policy
Regulation of Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act
Non-CO2 Pollutants
Environmental Impact Assessment
Climate Justice
Endangered Species Act
Climate-Related Financial Risk Management and Disclosure
Civil Remedies
Part III: Regional, State, and Local Actions


State and Multistate Climate Action
Local Initiatives
Part IV: Energy Regulation


Electricity Regulation, Markets, and Governance
Land Use and Transportation Policies Addressing Climate Change
Part V: The Next Legal Frontiers


Carbon Capture and Sequestration and Carbon Dioxide Removal
Agriculture
Climate Change and Public Natural Resources
Climate Adaptation Law
U.S. Climate Change Law and Policy: Taking Stock