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When a Window Unit Isn't Cool Enough
As heat waves swept across the country, it is a good time to look at the benefits of heat pumps for cooling and to reduce reliance on traditional oil and gas heating in the colder months.
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Articles
No Big News Yet From a Changed Court’s Environmental Docket
“In the Courts” Column: With the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court this term, environmental advocates are alert for inklings of how the Court’s new makeup will affect their work.
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A Supreme Court Roundup on States and Environmental Law
As the Supreme Court wraps up its term, read this roundup of decisions involving states and the crucial issues that affect the nation’s grid and infrastructure as it grapples with a changing climate.
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AGs & Environmental Justice
State attorneys general are moving aggressively to ensure that environmental justice concerns are central to their environmental enforcement work.
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A Whirlwind of Activity at Interior
On many fronts, the Interior Department is preparing the path forward to a clean energy future and unwinding harmful rules and decisions of the Trump era.
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Shifting Gears, Driving Progress
The Biden administration is taking significant steps to address the climate impact of the transportation sector, including reversing the Trump administration’s move that lowered the stringency of the federal greenhouse gas emissions standards.
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Articles
Social Cost of Carbon Is a Case Study on Courts, Executive Orders
“In the Courts” Column: The Biden administration’s use of executive orders to make policy and direct agencies has already come under attack.
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Building Power in the Environmental Movement - Part 1
Read our guest post in Green 2.0’s blog, which gives an overview of the best strategies for proactively addressing the disparity in the environmental law field, which has been slow to diversify. There is widespread agreement that diversity is critical to providing high quality work that has a deep and lasting impact.
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Follow the Leaders
The State Impact Center convened a group of state AGs and a representative of the administration to discuss the path forward on climate action; hear what they had to say, and learn more about our latest report.
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Reports
Follow the Leaders: States Set Path to Accelerate U.S. Progress on Climate
Bold state leadership has been the primary source of progress in the United States’ response to the climate crisis, and states will continue to play a critical role in a new era of climate action.
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Bold Ambitions, Strong Foundations
Infrastructure week has finally arrived. If passed, President Biden’s American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion effort to simultaneously invest in the country’s infrastructure and combat climate change would be one of the largest domestic investments in the country since World War II.
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Presidential Precedent and the Cost of Carbon
The Biden administration’s actions on social cost of greenhouse gases triggered a new lawsuit from conservative attorneys general, providing a useful chance to highlight this little-known tool and the court cases that have developed around it.
Insights by Bethany Davis Noll (Executive Director)
Bethany Davis Noll is an expert in administrative and environmental law and an experienced litigator. She is an adjunct professor at NYU Law and former co-chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.