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
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
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
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
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
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…
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
This petition requests for the SEC to publish guidance clarifying that material climate-related information must be included in corporate disclosures under existing law.
Fred Krupp, Sean Donahue, Nancy Spencer, Vickie Patton and OthersSeptember 18, 2007