Professor Michael Gerrard’s Publications
Books
Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States , edited by Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach (ELI Press, 2019)
Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management and Carbon Dioxide Removal , edited by Michael Gerrard and Tracy Hester (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Global Climate Change and U.S. Law , 2nd ed. (ABA: 2014)
Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate , Michael Gerrard & Gregory E. Wannier (Co-Editors) (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change : U.S. and International Aspects , Michael Gerrard & Katrina Fischer Kuh (Co-Editors), ABA 2012
The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables , ABA 2011
The Law of Green Buildings: Regulatory and Legal Issues in Design, Construction, Operations, and Financing (with J. Cullen Howe), ABA 2010
The Law of Environmental Justice : Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks, Michael Gerrard & Sheila Foster (Co-Editors). , 2d ed. (2008)
Amending CERCLA: The Post-SARA Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Ac t (with Joel M. Gross) (2006)
Brownfields Law and Practice: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Land (four volumes, 1998)
Whose Backyard, Whose Risk : Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting (1996)
Environmental Law Practice Guide: State and Federal Law (twelve volumes, 1992)
Environmental Impact Review in New York (with Daniel A. Ruzow and Philip Weinberg) (1990)
Articles and Book Chapters
Annual Review of Developments Under SEQRA, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , September 12, 2019
The heat is on, New York: A new climate law is a major landmark, but now requires work and sacrifice , Michael B. Gerrard, New York Daily News , June 23, 2019
New Climate Law Will Reshape NY’s Key Sectors, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , July 11, 2019
Overcoming Impediments to CO2 storage:Legal Issues In the United States and Canada , Romany Webb and Michael Gerrard, Environmental Law Reporter, June 2019
How Lawyers Can Help Save The Planet , Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach, Law360 , May 21, 2019
New York’s New Congestion Pricing Law , Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , May 10, 2019
Heat waves: Legal adaptation to the most lethal climate disaster (so far) , Michael B. Gerrard, Arkansas article
Three Legal Visions of a ‘Green New Deal’ , Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , March 13, 2019
“New York Environmental Legislation in 2018,” Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , January 10, 2019
“Legal Tools for Cities to Cope with Extreme Heat,” Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , September 11, 2018
‘Going Negative: The Next Horizon in Climate Engineering Law,” Natural Resources & Environment,’ Tracy Hester and Michael B. Gerrard, Natural Resources & Environment, vol. 32 no. 4 (Spring 2018)
‘Review of Developments Under State,’ Michael B. Gerrard, New York Law Journal , July 12, 2018
‘State Authority to Preempt Local Laws Regulating Renewable Energy Projects,” Michael Gerrard, New York Law Journal , May 11, 2018
Climate Change and Human Trafficking After the Paris Agreement , Michael Gerrard, University of Miami Law Review , March 2018
“New York Environmental Legislation in 2017 “, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journa l, January 11, 2018
“New York Law Journal, Debate Over Environmental Rights,” Michael B. Gerrard, New York Law Journal , October 26, 2017
“Uncertainty About Hydrologically Connected Groundwater Has Implications in New York,” Michael Gerrard, New York Law Journal, September 14, 2017
“Legal Pathways for a Massive Increase in Utility-Scale Renewable Generation Capacity ,” Michael Gerrard, Environmental Law Reporter (July 2017)
“Survey of 2016 Cases Under New York State Environmental Quality Review Act ,” Michael Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , July 13, 2017
Policy Readiness for Offshore Carbon Dioxide Storage in the Northeast “, Michael Gerrard and Romany Webb, June 13, 2017
“New York’s New Sea Level Rise Projections Will Affect Land Use, Infrastructure”, Michael Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , March 8, 2017
“New York Environmental Legislation: 2016 in Review,” Michael Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , January 12, 2017
“Three Major Developments In International Climate Change Law”, New York Law Journal , November 10, 2016
“Survey of 2015 Cases Under State Environmental Quality Review Act,” New York Law Journal , July 14, 2016
“President Trump would be a climate catastrophe ,” Op-Ed, The Guardian (July 2016)
“Preparing Clients for Climate Change ,” GP Solo, a publication of the American Bar Association (May/June 2016)
“Climate litigation scores successes in the Netherlands and Pakistan ,”ABA Association of Environment, Energy, and Resources Newsletter (May/June 2016)
“Effect of the Paris Climate Agreement on U.S. Businesses,” Michael Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal , March 10, 2016
“The Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies,” Environment 360 , February 17, 2016
“New York Environmental Legislation And Regulations in 2015,” Michael Gerrard and Ed McTiernan, New York Law Journal , January 14, 2016
“Regulation of Movement Of Crude Oil by Rail in New York,” New York Law Journal , November 9, 2015
“Supreme Court Ruling on Mercury Shows Little Deference to EPA,” New York Law Journal , September 10, 2015
“Survey of 2014 Cases Under State Environmental Quality Review Act,” New York Law Journal , July 9, 2015
“America is the worst polluter in the history of the world. We should let climate change refugees resettle here,” The Washington Post, June 25, 2015
“America’s Forgotten Nuclear Waste Dump in the Pacific,” SAIS Review of International Affairs , Winter-Spring 2015 (2015)
Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015: Trend or Oddity? New York Law Journal , May 14, 2015
“Save Birds Now or Birds Later ,” The Environmental Forum , May/June 2015
“Scale and Focus of Climate Litigation Outside of the United States ,” New York Law Journal, March 12, 2015
“New York Environmental Legislation And Regulations in 2014 ,” New York Law Journal , January 15, 2015
“A Pacific Isle, Radioactive and Forgotten ,” New York Times, December 3, 2014
“New Statute Requires State Agencies to Consider Climate Risks , ” New York Law Journal , November 13, 2014
“Legal Challenges to Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan ,” New York Law Journal , September 11, 2014
“Solving the CSO Conundrum: Green Infrastructure and the Unfulfilled Promise of Federal-Municipal Cooperation ,” 38 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 335 (2014)
“Survey of 2013 Cases Under State Quality Review Act ,” July 10, 2014, New York Law Journal
“Federalism Obstacles to Advancing Renewable Energy ,” New York Law Journal, May 8, 2014
“Deluge of New York City Laws Guards Against Flooding, Protects Environment ,” New York Law Journal , March 23, 2014
“US Federal Climate Change Law in Obama’s Second Term, ” Transnational Environmental Law , February 2014
“New York Environmental Legislation and Regulations in 2013 ,” New York Law Journal , January 9, 2014
“Michael Bloomberg’s Environmental Record, Bill de Blasio’s Promises ,” New York Law Journal , November 14, 2013
“Court Rulings Accept Climate Science,” New York Law Journal, September 12, 2013
“Survey of 2012 Cases Under State Environmental Quality Review Act ,” New York Law Journal , July 11, 2013
“Reducing Legal Hurdles to Combined Heat and Power in New York ,” New York Law Journal , May 8, 2013
“Climate Change Action Without Congress ,” 126 Harvard Law Review Forum 160 (2013)
“Environmental Protection” (with Daniel M. Firger), in Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment: Challenges to International Harmonization (Zdenek Drabek & Petros C. Mavroidis, eds., 2013)
“Federal Executive Actions to Combat Climate Change ,” New York Law Journal , Mar. 14, 2013
“New York Environmental Legislation and Regulations in 2012, ” New York Law Journal, Jan., 8, 2013
“Mexico’s General Climate Change Law” (with Anne Siders), in What are the next steps? Legal Perspectives on Mexico’s General Law on Climate Change (Environmental Law Institute and USAid/Mexico, 2012)
“D.C. Circuit clears path for GHG rules, but politics remain ,” Trends (ABA), November/December 2012
“Obama Reelection Clears Path For Numerous New EPA Regulations, ” New York Law Journal , Nov. 30, 2012
“FERC Order 1000 as a New Tool for Promoting Energy Efficiency and Demand Response ” (with Shelley Welton), The Environmental Law Reporter, Nov. 2012
“The Law on What Documents Scientists Must Keep and Disclose ” (with Elizabeth Sheargold), Eos, October 30, 2012.
“The Environment in New York State” (with Claire H. Woods), in The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics (Gerald Benjamin, editor) (Oxford University Press) (2012)
“State Public Utility Commissions’ Powers to Advance Energy Efficiency ” New York Law Journal , Sept. 13, 2012
“Court Ruling Gives Green Light to EPA GHG Regulations — Positive for Natural Gas, Renewables, and Efficient Vehicles ” (with Mark Fulton et al.), DB Climate Change Advisors, August 2012
“Recent Developments Under State Environmental Quality Review Act ” New York Law Journal , July 12, 2012
“Hurricane Katrina Decision Highlights Liability for Decaying Infrastructure ” New York Law Journal , May, 10, 2012
“At issue: Energy efficiency,” Columbia Law School Magazine , Spring 2012
“Science Heads List of Candidate Debate Queries ,” The Environmental Forum , March/April 2012
“Reverse Environmental Impact Analysis: Effect of Climate Change on Projects” New York Law Journal, March 8, 2012
“New York Environmental Legislation and Regulations in 2011 ” New York Law Journal, Jan. 12, 2012
“United States of America” (with Gregory E. Wannier), in Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice (Richard Lord, et al., eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
“Harmonizing Climate Change Policy and International Investment Law” (with Daniel M. Firger), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2010-2011 (Karl P. Sauvant, ed.), 2012
“Governmental and Private Liability for Flooding ,”New York Law Journal , Nov. 10., 2011
“What litigation of a climate nuisance suit might look like, ” 121 Yale Law Journal Online 135, Sept. 2011 Reprinted in 12 Sustainable Development Law & Policy 12 (2012) (Spanish translation available here )
New York’s Revived Power Plant Siting Law Preempts Local Control , New York Law Journa l, Sept. 8, 2011
“Model Municipal Ordinance Project Designed to Facilitate Wind and Solar Projects and Green Buildings ,”The New York Environmental Reporter, vol. 31, no.2, Spring 2011
“Climate Change Litigation After Supreme Court Ruling in American Electric Power v. Connecticut,” DB Climate Change Advisors, July 15, 2011
“USA ” in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Environment Law 2011 (2011)
“American Electric Power’ Leaves Open Many Questions for Climate Litigation” New York Law Journal , July 14, 2011
“Climate Change and the WTO: Expected Battlegrounds, Surprising Battles ” BNA’s Daily Environmental Reporter, July 12, 2011; World Climate Change Report , July 11, 2011; and International Environment , July 12, 2011.
“2010 Developments Under State Environmental Quality Review Act” New York Law Journal, May 12, 2011
“Environmental and Energy Legislation in the 112th Congress ” Trends, vol. 24, no. 4 March/April 2011
“Increasing Use of Renewable Energy: Legal Techniques and Impediments ” New York Law Journal , March 10, 2011
“NEPA and Its Progeny,” in Climate Change Reader (William R. Rodgers, Jr. & Michael J. Robinson-Dorn, eds.) (Carolina Academic Press 2011)
“Increasing Energy Efficiency: Legal Techniques and Impediments ,” New York Law Journal, January 13, 2011
“Model Green Building Ordinance Proposed for Adoption by New York Municipalities ” NYSBA/MLRC Municipal Lawyer , Fall 2010 v.24, no.4
“New York Environmental Legislation and Regulations in 2010 ” New York Law Journal , November 29, 2010
“Climate Regulation Without Congressional Action ” New York Law Journal , October 6, 2010
“Litigation Under SEQRA Declining, Exemption Use is Rising ” New York Law Journal, 5 August 2010
“USA ” in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Environment Law 2010 (2010)
“Model Green Building Ordinance For Municipalities Open for Comment ” New York Law Journal, 3 June 2010
“Defining the Challenge in Implementing Climate Change Policy ,” Environmental Law Reporter ( June 2010)
“Greenhouse Gas Disclosure Requirements Are Proliferating ” New York Law Journal, 1 April (2010)
“In the year 2049: What Will Environmental Protection Be like 40 Years from Now? ” Environmental Forum, November/December 2009.
“Court of Appeals Expands SEQRA Standing After an 18-Year Detour ,” New York Law Journal , 27 November (2009)
“Coal-Fired Powerplants Dominate Climate Change Litigation ,” New York Law Journal, 25 September (2009)
“Comment on Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change Mitigation Policy in the United States: Integrating Levels of Government and Economic Sectors ” Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review , August 2009
“Cash-for-Clunkers Program: Better for Industry than Environment,” New York Law Journal , 24 July (2009)
“The Effect of NEPA Outside the Courtroom ,” Environmental Law Reporter 39, July 2009.
“The Obama Administration’s First Environmental Policy Changes .” Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, July 2009
“Greenhouse Gases: Emerging Standards for Impact Review ,” New York Law Journal 27 Mar (2009)
“State Bar Task Force: 22 New York Actions to Address Climate Change, ” New York Law Journal 23 Jan (2009)
Taking Action in New York on Climate Change (January 2009) ,New York State Bar Association (Task Force chair)
“New York Environmental Legislation in 2008, ” New York Law Journal 28 Nov (2008)
“McCain/Palin vs. Obama/Biden on the Environment.” New York Law Journal 26 Sep (2008)
“McCain vs. Obama on Environment, Energy, and Resources, ” Natural Resources & Environment Fall (2008)
“N.Y. Brownfields Program Buffeted by Legislature, Courts, ” New York Law Journal, 25 Jul (2008)
“SEQRA and Climate Change, ” NYSBA Government, Law and Policy Journal Summer (2008)
“Carbon Capture, Sequestration Raises Myriad Legal Issues, ” New York Law Journal 23 May (2008)
“USA Chapter, ” The International Comparative Legal Guide To: Environment Law 2008, 5th ed. (Global Legal Group: 2008)
“Global Climate Change,” Environmental Law Practice Guide (LexisNexis: 2008)
“Survey of SEQRA Cases From 2007, ” New York Law Journal 28 Mar (2008)
“Financial Disclosure of Risks Related to Global Climate Change, ” (with Christopher Anderson) TRENDS March/April (2008)
“Climate Change and the Environmental Impact Review Process, ” NR&E Winter (2008)
“New York State Environmental Legislation in 2007, ” New York Law Journal 25 Jan (2008)
“Stricter Rules on Storm Water Discharges Taking Effect, ” New York Law Journal 23 Nov (2007)
“Keen on Green?” (with Jonathan Martel) New York Law Journal Oct (2007)
“Survey of Climate Change Litigation, ” New York Law Journal 28 Sep (2007)
“Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism in Action, ” New York Law Journal 24 Sep (2007)
“Business Opportunities in Climate Change Mitigation, “ New York Law Journal 22 Sep (2006)
“A Q&A Guide to Environment Law in The U.S.. ” (with Lester Sotsky) PLC’s Environment Cross-Border Handbook 2006/07 (2006)
“Environmental Law in New York, ” monthly publication
“Emergency Exemptions from Environmental Laws After Disasters, ” NR&E Spring (2006)
“Environmental Easements: A New Form of Property, ” New York Law Journal 26 Nov (2004)
“EPA, DEC Expand Roles of Environmental Management Systems, ” New York Law Journal 23 Jul (2004)
“Who Goes to Jail? Understanding Criminal Liability for Wastewater Violations, ” Clearwaters (1996)
“Building Environmentally Just Projects: Perspective of a Developer’s Lawyer, ” Environmental Law News Spring (1996)
“World Trade Center: Response, Recovery and Reconstruction, ” New York Law Journal 04 Oct (2001)
“Environmental Justice and New York Environmental Law, ” Environmental Law in New York 01 Jun (2001)
“Environmental Actions of the New York State Legislature in 2000, ” New York Law Journal 24 Nov (2000)
“New York’s New Pesticide Notification Law, ” 22 Sep (2000)
“Update on Environmental Justice Cases ,” New York Law Journal 28 Jul (2000)
“Consultants’ and Lawyers’ Duties to Report Contamination ,” New York Law Journal 1 Mar (2000)
“Environmental Law: Legislative Update – 1999, ” New York Law Journal 26 Nov (1999)
“New York’s Pending Superfund/Brownfields Legislation, ” New York Law Journal 24 Sep (1999)
“How SEQRA Cases Fared in 1998, ” New York Law Journal 22 Jan (1999)
“Emerging Statutory and Constitutional Tools for States to Resist Federal Environmental Regulation, “Environmental Law Reporter 1 Mar (1998)
“Municipal Powers Under SEQRA ,” New York State Bar Journal 1 Dec (1997)
“Interaction of Toxic Tort and CERCLA Litigation, ” Toxics Law Reporter 09 Oct (1996)
“Compliance Programs for Small Business, ” New York Law Journal 27 Sep (1996)
“Comparative Risk Assessment in New York, ” The New York Law Journal 24 May (1996)
“Environmental Law — Update on SEQRA Lawsuits for 1995, ” New York Law Journal 22 Mar (1996)
“Environmental Law — New York’s Comprehensive New Air – Pollution Rules, ” New York Law Journal 26 Jan (1996)
“Dodging the Nimby Bullet: A Solution To Waste Facility Siting, ” Public Utilities Fortnightly 01 Aug (1995)
“Environmental Law — Guarding Against False Claims Act Suits, ” New York Law Journal 28 Jul (1995)
“Corporate Probation: The Con Edison Sentence, ” New York Law Journal 26 May (1995)
“Environmental Commercial Law–Update on SEQRA Lawsuits for 1994, ” New York Law Journal 24 Mar (1995)
“Turning Nimby on its Head: A Siting Solution Based on Federal Allocation, State Responsibility, and Local Control». ” Environmental Reporter, Vol. 25, No. 46 24 Mar. (1995)
“New York Environmental Legislation: 2016 in Review,” New York Law Journal 17 January (2017)
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