Global Climate Change and U.S. Law - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627227415 ISBN 13: 9781627227414

Publisher: American Bar Association, 2015

Synopsis

A vast body of U.S. law relevant to climate change has developed since publication of the first edition of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law in 2007, even while Congress has failed to pass a new comprehensive statute to address the climate challenge. This domestic legal regime, covered comprehensively in this updated volume, consists of federal greenhouse gas regulations issued under the Clean Air Act and federal energy efficiency statutes, new disclosure requirements imposed under the securities laws, as well as a variety of state and local initiatives and common law decisions by the courts. Recognizing that climate change is largely an energy problem, this edition adds a completely new section on energy regulation. Additional chapters now cover cap-and-trade regimes, climate-related water issues, agriculture and forestry, and the use of non-climate international agreements to reduce emissions and address climate impacts. The final new section focuses on issues previously seen as marginal but now of growing importance: climate adaptation, carbon capture and sequestration and geoengineering.

Part I: Overview and Context
Part II U.S. Federal Regulation and Litigation
Part III: Regional, State, and Local Actions
Part IV: Energy Regulation
Part V: The Next Legal Frontiers

About this title

About the Author

Michael B. Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on environmental and energy law and directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He is also associate chair of the faculty of Columbia’s Earth Institute.

Jody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor at Harvard Law School and the founding director of the Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program. She served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House in 2009–2010 and was the architect of the president’s historic agreement with the auto industry to double fuel efficiency standards.

Review

"Global climate change poses an enormous threat to our environment. Our coastlines, surface and underground water supplies, farmlands, and forests are all at risk. Creative legal engineering will be needed to address this problem. This book, written by many of the country's leading environmental scholars and practitioners, provides an invaluable start on this process. It's a must read for any serious lawyer or policymaker in the field." -- Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, 1993-2001, Governor of Arizona, 1978-1987

"Global Climate Change is an impressive work of legal scholarship from the ABA's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, a collaborative effort of the most knowledgeable and experienced practitioners in the field, guided by the steady editorial hand of Michael B. Gerrard, former SEER Chair and partner at Arnold & Porter. It is supported by a very useful website to keep readers updated on related legal developments." -- The Environmental Forum, Nov/Dec 2007

"Michael Gerrard and a topflight list of authors have pulled together thoughtful, critical commentaries that can help key sectors in our society craft responses to what is surely the environmental challenge of this century - indeed, a major economic challenge as well - the earth's changing climate. Many thanks to ABA for this timely publication and Website that can keep us abreast of fast-breaking developments in this field." -- William K. Reilly, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989-1993

"This is a spectacular book. Offering both impressive breadth and depth in its description and analysis, Global Climate Change and U.S. Law provides the legal community with an extraordinarily useful tool for understanding the wide ranging ways that current and quickly emerging laws address what promises to be the nation's greatest environmental challenge. Wholly accessible to those not themselves expert in environmental law, any lawyer or policymaker seriously interested in the global climate change should have a copy." -- Richard Lazarus, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

"This volume serves as a comprehensive desk reference of legal issues related to climate change, which any lawyer or policymaker in the environmental field would find useful and informative. The book provides an outstanding overview of the field, particularly helpful for individuals seeking an introduction to climate change law." -- Sustainable Development Law & Policy, Fall 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: American Bar Association
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1627227415
• ISBN 13: 9781627227414
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 899
• Editor: Gerrard Michael B., Freeman Jody