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Michael Gerrard
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Professor of environmental and energy law, Columbia Law School. Founder and faculty director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Practiced environmental law in NYC full-time, 1979-2008.

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Michael Burr Gerrard is an American legal scholar. He is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School.

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Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · 3d
This new study shows the risk that flooding worsened by climate change poses to toxic sites. As I wrote in 2023, the U.S. regulatory system is ill prepared to deal with this threat, but there are ways the laws can be changed to address it. bit.ly/4igwWRG

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Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · 5d
As I describe in detail in my new article in the New York Law Journal, the Trump administration has taken an all-of-government approach to squelching wind and solar.
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📰 Trump's Multi-Prolonged Attack on Renewable Energy, by Michael Gerrard (@@michaelgerrard.bsky.social): scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 6d
📰 Trump's Multi-Prolonged Attack on Renewable Energy, by Michael Gerrard (@@michaelgerrard.bsky.social): scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...

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Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · Oct 24
Climate victory: NY court rules that State Dept. of Env. Conservation must issue its GHG cap-and-invest rules, as required by NY Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act, by Feb. 6. DEC was ready to issue the rules but Gov. Hochul stopped them. Next question: Will they appeal?
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Oct 17
🔥🌆Combating the “urban heat island” island effect! 🌳Daniel J. Metzger explores how local organizations can transform paved surfaces—“combining the resources and desire to create green spaces that nongovernmental groups offer with cities’ large portfolios of property.”
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Oct 6
💻⚖️🌏 Register for @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social's #webinar on October 8 to join experts from the Sabin Center,
@granthamicl.bsky.social and @biicl.bsky.social as they review global climate litigation. The presentation will demonstrate the new Climate Litigation Database: buff.ly/l86RRwy

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Sep 30
The US became the world’s leading nation due to its science and technology, and it has now decided for a path of self-mutilation and handing world leadership over to 🇨🇳.
Why? 🙄
thebulletin.org Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Sep 30
As part of the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump admin proposed cancelling over 40 missions.

Agency employees have already been instructed to do the prep work for ending these programs, according to a NASA scientist.

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NASA missions at risk under the Trump administration
Some satellites slated for decommissioning are in the prime of life, and turning them off would be enormously wasteful, in addition to severely limiting scientists' ability to understand the planet.
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Sep 26
⭐⭐⭐We have a special edition of the Climate Litigation Newsletter in honor of the Climate Litigation Database 2.0 Relaunch in partnership with @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social. Huge thank you to everyone who attended the launch event yesterday!
View the newsletter here: mailchi.mp/law/sabin-ce...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Sep 24
📗🌏⚖️Catch up on your reading on #climatelitigation by checking out the new #blog posts under the Climate Reparations Blog Series: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang... #humanrights #climatechange #internationallaw

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Sep 16
📰 Trump EPA’s Proposed Revocation of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Raises Tangle of Legal Issues, by Michael B. Gerrard (@michaelgerrard.bsky.social): scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Sep 15
📆 ⭕ On Wednesday, September 24, join us as we welcome Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, for a lunchtime talk at Columbia Law School (@columbialawschool.bsky.social).
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Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · Aug 27
As I told the NY Times, the Trump Administration's order to halt this mostly-complete offshore wind project is a flashing red light to the clean energy industry. If you have all your permits and have spent billions of dollars and they still shut you down, who will want to invest?
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With Little Explanation, Trump Throws Wind Industry Into Chaos
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 27
OLLINS: But the Pentagon reviewed this wind project in 2023 & found that there were negligible national security impacts

BURGUM: In particular there's concern about radar relative to undersea drones...people with bad ulterior motives to the US would launch a swarm drone attack through wind farms

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Climate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · Aug 20
Barely 7 months in and we've already documented almost 100 anti-science actions by an administration that thinks that “[r]esearch programs based on gender identity... do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans.” 🫠

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