The national debate about climate change has reached a crucial point. We have had eight years of modest progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The best known and most controversial part of that effort is the Clean Power Plan, which is…
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…
Paris—In the run-up to the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention, a short humorous video, “Earth to Paris,” was widely viewed. It was a call to delegates for take serious action on climate change at the…
Paris—This is easily one of the most important conferences to the parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in the 21 years these conferences have been held. The Convention is a treaty that now has 195 member countries. The…
Few energy issues in recent decades have proven as contentious as shale gas. The rapid recent development of shale gas in the United States has reduced gas prices, helped the U.S. economy recover from the recent recession, reduced U.S. dependence on…
The Environmental Law Center at Widener University School of Law has published an in-depth comparison of the Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates’ positions on issues related to sustainability. The comparison is available here. The…
On December 19, 2013, in Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held unconstitutional major parts of Pennsylvania’s “Act 13”—a 2012 oil and gas law designed to facilitate the development of natural…
After more than a decade of laying a foundation for sustainability activities, the American Bar Association is poised to take its act to a higher level with a presidential level Task Force on Sustainable Development. The Task Force is intended…
On Friday, September 27, 2013, Widener University Law School in Harrisburg held a first-of-its-kind conference on sustainability and Marcellus Shale development. Video recordings of each panel at the conference, as well as PowerPoint slides from…
The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates—the policy making body for the ABA, adopted in August a resolution urging “all governments, lawyers, and ABA entities to act in ways that accelerate progress toward sustainability.” The…