by Karl Coplan | Aug 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Karl Coplan An interesting article in today’s New York Times reports that lenders are increasingly wary of lending money to environmentally destructive activities such as mountaintop removal mining and tar sands oil extraction. Responding both to public pressure by...
by Ann Powers | Aug 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Ann Powers When my environmental law students want to load their schedules with environmental courses and skimp on the more traditional bread and butter ones, I tell them that lots of environmental cases are decided on non-environmental issues. While it is often...
by crizzo | Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Christopher Rizzo In June 2010 both the New York State Assembly and Senate passed the “Smart Growth Public Infrastructure Policy Act.” The Assembly’s vote was nearly unanimous, 138 to 2. On August 18, 2010 the Assembly delivered the bill to Governor Paterson. He...
by Daniel Estrin | Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Daniel E. Estrin Supervising Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc. Adjunct Professor of Law, Pace Law School More than thirty years ago, in NRDC v. Costle, 568 F.2d 1369 (D.C. Cir. 1977), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the...
by Richard Ottinger | Aug 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Pace Energy and Climate Change (PECC) staffer Wiliam Petland and I are doing a major paper on geo-engineering, documenting the very serious risks to the planet of changing the earth’s atmosphere and oceans, the undermining through promotion of geo-engineering...
