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…
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…
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…
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…
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…