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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…
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Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States: A Preview
In early 2019, the Environmental Law Institute will publish 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…
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Sustainable Development in Law Practice: A Lens for Addressing All Legal Problems
A small but growing number of lawyers identify themselves as doing sustainability work. In the Martindale-Hubbell online directory of lawyers, in which lawyers list their areas of practice, 759 U.S. lawyers identify sustainability or sustainable development as a practice area. But what do they do? Is sustainable development just the latest way of relabeling what is…
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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