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Adaptation as Risk Management Energy Regulation Federal Energy Regulation Journal Article Risk Management State Energy Regulation

Microgrids and Resilience to Climate-Driven Impacts on Public Health

This article examines how the definitions of resilience adopted by the public health and electricity communities can, but do not necessarily, converge in responses to electricity outages so severe that they affect the operation of critical infrastructure, such as wastewater treatment and drinking water facilities, hospitals, and cooling centers. The…

Justin GundlachFebruary 1, 2018

Adaptation as Risk Management Journal Article Risk Management

Transforming (Perceived) Rigidity in Environmental Law through Adaptive Governance: A Case of Endangered Species Act Implementation

This article identifies barriers to an integrated approach to the ESA's Section 7 Consultation requirement and characterizes a set of strategies for overcoming its rigidity that may have broader applicability.

J.B. Ruhl and OthersDecember 1, 2017

Energy Regulation Federal Energy Regulation Journal Article State Energy Regulation

Prospective Grandfathering: Anticipating the Energy Transition Problem

This article identifies tools available to the government ex ante that will preserve regulatory flexibility in the future by forestalling regulatory takings claims and blunt the fairness concerns that fuel takings arguments, and argues for their adoption in the context of natural gas regulation.

Christopher Serkin and Michael VandenberghAugust 22, 2017

Adaptation as Risk Management Journal Article Risk Management

A Proposal for Amending Administrative Law to Facilitate Adaptive Management

This article examines how federal agencies use adaptive management, proposes changes to administrative law to allow it to adapt to adaptive management, and provides draft legislation to incorporate adaptive management.

J.B. Ruhl, Robin Kundis Craig, Eleanor Brown and Byron WilliamsJuly 10, 2017

Energy Regulation Environmental Justice Federal Energy Regulation Journal Article Risk Management State Energy Regulation

Carbon Taxation by Regulation

This article argues that non-tax subsidies in energy rates have potential to promote low-carbon sources of energy while balancing broader economic and social welfare goals

Jim RossiMarch 20, 2017

Adaptation as Risk Management Journal Article Risk Management

Legal and Institutional Foundations of Adaptive Environmental Governance

This article discusses the current and potential role of law in enabling adaptation, applied to different social-ecological settings

J.B. Ruhl, Daniel DeCaro, Brian Chaffin, Edella Schlager and Ahjond GarmestaniMarch 17, 2017

Adaptation as Risk Management Journal Article Risk Management

The Role of Law in Adaptive Governance

This article identifies aspects of frameworks for adaptive governance and guidelines for evaluating the role of law in environmental governance.

J.B. Ruhl and OthersMarch 1, 2017

Financial Regulation Journal Article

Stranded Costs and Grid Decarbonization

This article addresses reforms to the approach to stranded cost compensation for investor risks, including recommending consideration of stranded costs at the outset rather than after investment decisions are made.

Jim Rossi and Emily HammondOctober 20, 2016

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

Comments on the Con Ed Storm Hardening and Resilience Report

These comments recommend that the NYPSC order the continuation of the Storm Hardening and Resiliency Collaborative and (1) have Working Group II consider broadly how alternative business models for distributed generation ownership and adjustment to existing tariff provisions could provide system-wide resilience benefits; (2) have Working Group IV develop explicit…

Jonathan Schrag, Jason Schwartz, Denise Grab, Matthew Weprin and Hillary ColemanJanuary 10, 2014

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Supplemental Petition for Interpretive Guidance on Climate Risk Disclosure

This petition supplements the previous request with recent developments and regulatory updates, including an EPA rule requiring GHG emitters to report their emissions, that make it urgent for the SEC to ensure that corporations are analyzing and disclosing climate risk and opportunities.

Vickie Patton, Nancy Spencer and OthersNovember 23, 2009

Regulator & Court Approaches to Managing Uncertainty in the Climate Risk Context

Microgrids and Resilience to Climate-Driven Impacts on Public Health

Transforming (Perceived) Rigidity in Environmental Law through Adaptive Governance: A Case of Endangered Species Act Implementation

Prospective Grandfathering: Anticipating the Energy Transition Problem

A Proposal for Amending Administrative Law to Facilitate Adaptive Management

Carbon Taxation by Regulation

Legal and Institutional Foundations of Adaptive Environmental Governance

The Role of Law in Adaptive Governance

Stranded Costs and Grid Decarbonization

Comments on the Con Ed Storm Hardening and Resilience Report

Supplemental Petition for Interpretive Guidance on Climate Risk Disclosure

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