The Environmental Law Institute has published Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach eds., March 2019). The book is a playbook of state, local, federal, and private legal pathways for enabling the United States to address what is easily among the greatest problems facing this country and the rest of humanity.
In 35 separate chapters authored by 59 experts, it identifies more than a thousand legal options for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. It builds on the U.S. work of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project, and has been prepared in collaboration with that organization.
The book was published in two forms. The Summary and Key Recommendations version is now available in paperback and e-book here.
You can order the complete book here.
Here is the Table of Contents, showing chapters that were published as articles in the Environmental Law Reporter, with links:
Introduction, by John C. Dernbach (published as Postscript to other articles in Environmental Law Reporter)
I. CONTEXT
Ch. 1. Technical and Policy Aspects of Deep Decarbonization in the United States, by Jim Williams, David Ismay, Ryan Jones, Gabe Kwok, and Ben Haley
II. CROSS-CUTTING APPROACHES TO REDUCING EMISSIONS
Ch. 2. Carbon Pricing, by Shi-Ling Hsu
Ch. 3. Individual and Household Behavior, by Michael P. Vandenbergh and Paul C. Stern
Ch. 4. Law for Technological Innovation, by Gary E. Marchant
Ch. 5. Financing Large-Scale Projects, by Robert Freedman, Monica Lamb, and Claire Melvin
Ch. 6. Financing at the Grid Edge, by C. Baird Brown
Ch. 7. Materials Consumption and Solid Waste, by Michael Burger
Ch. 8. Trade Considerations for Decarbonization Strategies, by Elizabeth Trujillo
III. ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CONSERVATION, AND FUEL SWITCHING IN BUILDINGS AND INDUSTRY
Ch. 9. Lighting, Appliances, and Other Equipment, by Kit Kennedy
Ch. 10. New Buildings, by Lee Paddock and Caitlin McCoy
Ch. 11. Existing Buildings, by James Charles Smith
Ch. 12. Industrial Sector, by Gregg P. Macey
IV. ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CONSERVATION, AND FUEL SWITCHING IN TRANSPORTATION
Ch. 13. Transforming Transportation Demand, by Trip Pollard
Ch. 14. Light-Duty Vehicles, by Amy L. Stein and Joshua Fershee
Ch. 15. Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Freight, by Andrea Hudson Campbell, Avi B. Zevin, and Keturah A. Brown
Ch. 16. Aviation, by Aoife O’Leary
Ch. 17. Shipping, by Aoife O’Leary
V. ELECTRICITY DECARBONIZATION
Ch. 18. Utility-Scale Renewable Generating Capacity, by Michael B. Gerrard
Ch. 19. Distributed Renewable Energy, by K.K. DuVivier
Ch. 20. Transmission, Distribution and Storage: Grid Integration, by Alexandra B. Klass
Ch. 21. Nuclear Energy, by David A. Repka and Tyson R. Smith
Ch. 22. Hydropower, by Charles R. Sensiba, Michael A. Swiger, and Sharon L, White
Ch. 23. Electricity Charges, Mandates, and Subsidies, by Jim Rossi
Ch. 24. Phasing Out the Use of Fossil Fuels for the Generation of Electricity, by Steven Weissman and Réna Kakon
VI. FUEL DECARBONIZATION
Ch. 25. Bioenergy Feedstocks, by Blake Hudson and Uma Outka
Ch. 26. Production and Delivery of Low Carbon Gaseous Fuels, by Romany M. Webb and Melinda E. Taylor
Ch. 27. Production and Delivery of Bioenergy Fuels, by James M. Van Nostrand
VII. CARBON CAPTURE AND NEGATIVE EMISSIONS
Ch. 28. Carbon Capture and Sequestration, by Wendy B. Jacobs and Michael Craig
Ch. 29. Negative Emissions Technologies and Direct Air Capture, by Tracy Hester
Ch. 30. Carbon-Neutral Agriculture, by Peter Lehner and Nathan A. Rosenberg
Ch. 31. Forestry, by Federico Cheever with Robert B. McKinstry, Jr., and Robert L. Fischman
VIII. NON-CARBON DIOXIDE CLIMATE POLLUTANTS
Ch. 32. Black Carbon, by Melissa Powers
Ch. 33. Methane, by Steven Ferrey with Romany M. Webb
Ch. 34. Fluorinated Gases, by Nathan Borgford-Parnell, Stephen Oliver Andersen, and Durwood Zaelke
Ch. 35. Nitrous Oxide, by Jessica Wentz and David Kanter