Jessica Wentz

Comments on the CEQ’s NEPA Guidance on Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change

These comments offer support and provide recommendations for the adoption of CEQ's interim guidance, which will improve federal decision-making by ensuring that federal agencies fully and accurately account for climate change in environmental reviews as legally required under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Jessica WentzApril 10, 2023

Agency Filing Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation

Comments to SEC on Climate Risk Disclosure (Sabin Center)

These comments, in response to the SEC's request for public input on climate disclosures, focus on the science of climate attribution, detection, and prediction—the body of research drawing on multiple lines of evidence that describes the role of human activity in climate change. The goal of these comments is to…

Jessica WentzJune 11, 2021

Report Risk Management

The Law and Science of Climate Change Attribution

This Article provides a comprehensive survey of the roles attribution science plays in climate change law and litigation.

Jessica WentzFebruary 2, 2020

Adaptation as Risk Management Agency Filing Energy Regulation Federal Energy Regulation Risk Management

Comments on FERC’s Notice of Inquiry on its Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities

These comments were submitted in response to FERC's Notice of Inquiry into possible changes to its natural gas certification policy. The comments argue, among other things, that FERC should consider how climate change will affect the construction and operation of natural gas infrastructure in its certification decisions.

Jessica WentzJune 18, 2018

Agency Filing Risk Management

Comments on Draft Nationwide Programmatic EIS for the National Flood Insurance Program

These comments discuss the 2017 draft Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the National Flood Insurance Program.

Jessica WentzJune 1, 2017

Agency Filing Risk Management

Comments on Proposed Sea Level Rise Projections for New York City, 6 NYCRR Part 490

Comments submitted in support of the Department of Environmental Conservation's proposed sea level rise projections for New York State.

Jessica WentzDecember 19, 2016

Agency Filing Risk Management

Comments on the CEQ’s Revised Draft Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in NEPA Reviews

These comments discuss the Council on Environmental Quality's proposed guidance on the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions and effects of climate change in NEPA reviews. The comments argue that agencies should be required to consider the effects of climate change on the environmental consequences of proposed actions.

Jessica WentzMarch 24, 2015

Comments on the CEQ’s NEPA Guidance on Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change

Comments to SEC on Climate Risk Disclosure (Sabin Center)

The Law and Science of Climate Change Attribution

Comments on FERC’s Notice of Inquiry on its Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities

Comments on Draft Nationwide Programmatic EIS for the National Flood Insurance Program

Comments on Proposed Sea Level Rise Projections for New York City, 6 NYCRR Part 490

Comments on the CEQ’s Revised Draft Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in NEPA Reviews

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