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Pennsylvania Petitioned to Adopt Economy-Wide Cap-and-Trade Program for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
On November 28, the Clean Air Council, Robert B. McKinstry, Jr., the Widener University Commonwealth Law School Environmental Law and Sustainability Center, Professor John C. Dernbach, C. Baird Brown, and over fifty other businesses, organizations and individuals submitted a petition for rulemaking…
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Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States: A Preview
The Environmental Law Institute is publishing Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach eds.). The book is a playbook of state, local, federal, and private legal pathways for enabling the United States to address what is easily among…
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Election 2018: Pennsylvania U.S. Senate and Gubernatorial Candidate Positions on Sustainability and Climate Change
Students at Widener Commonwealth Law School have created two-column comparison charts to enable you to quickly compare and contrast the positions of major party candidates on a range of sustainability and climate change issues. The chart for the Pennsylvania governor’s race race shows the positions of Tom Wolf and Scott Wagner. The chart for the U.S. Senate race in…
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Who is John Dernbach?
John C. Dernbach is a Distinguished Professor of Law at Widener University, Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg Pennsylvania, and director of its Environmental Law and Sustainability Center. John leads a project, Sustaining America, that reviews sustainable development efforts in the United States and makes recommendations for future action. Read on