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Legal Pathways Book Arms Policymakers, Lawyers, Private Sector With Tools to Combat Climate Change
With Democrats and Republicans arguing over the virtues and pitfalls of a Green New Deal, and with President Trump’s latest budget proposal cutting many environment- and energy-related programs, climate change policy in the United States is as divisive as ever. But a comprehensive new…
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Legal Pathways to Dramatic Reductions in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Summary Now Available
The Environmental Law Institute has made available for download a 160-page pdf of the summary and key recommendations volume of Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, edited by Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach. You can download the PDF here. This book…
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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 to the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) to adopt a proposed regulation establishing an…
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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