Sabin Center in the News, 2017
This page lists articles from this year that mention the Sabin Center, its work, or quote one or more of its staff.
December 2017
- “On the boil: five climate lawsuits to watch in 2018,” Reuters, December 28, 2017
- “Court Advances Case Against German Greenhouse Gas Emitter,” Glacier Hub, December 27, 2017
- “For Exxon, a Year of Living Dangerously,” InsideClimate News, December 22, 2017
- “Doctors and Scientists Challenge Removal of EPA Science Advisers,” Common Dreams, December 21, 2017
- “The New Climate Watchdogs: Democratic Attorneys General Take on Trump,” InsideClimate News, December 21, 2017
- “The Growing Movement to Take Polluters to Court Over Climate Change,” New Republic, December 20, 2017
- “Republicans Blow Their Chance to Pass a Carbon Tax,” The Atlantic, December 20, 2017
- “Venue of last resort: the climate lawsuits threatening the future of big oil”, The Guardian, December 17, 2017
- “Kids around the world are suing their governments for ruining the planet”, Quartz, December 16, 2017
- “60 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump”, The New York Times, December 15, 2017
- “Your Call: Youth sue the US government for causing climate change”, KALW, December 12, 2017
- “Historic Youth Climate Lawsuits Against Trump Poised to Advance,” EcoWatch, December 12, 2017
- “The Trump Administration Just Went To Court To Stop Kids From Suing Over Climate Change,” Buzzfeed News, December 11, 2017
- “In Kids’ Climate Lawsuit, Judges Question Government Effort to Get Case Dismissed,” InsideClimate News, December 11, 2017
- “Can the Courts Bring About a Climate Fix? Three judges are about to decide,” Alternet, December 11, 2017
- “Perry grants FERC more time to consider grid rule,” E&E News, December 11, 2017
- “The Energy 202: Legal battle over national monuments is just beginning”, The Washington Post, December 6, 2017
- “Nuclear Threat of Enewetak Atoll and Threat to Net Neutrality”, WORT FM, December 1, 2017
November 2017
- “Industries that cheered Trump’s climate regulation rollbacks now worry they’ll go too far“, Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2017
- “E.P.A. Heads to Coal Country to Hear Views on an Obama Climate Rule”, The New York Times, November 28, 2017
- “Ohio State researcher defies EPA advisory board policy, refuses to resign”, The Lantern, November 27, 2017
- “The Dome”, ABC News, November 27, 2017
- “Trump races to pick judges who oversee environment cases”, E&E News, November 27, 2017
- “A poison in our island”, ABC News, November 26, 2017
- “After Slow Progress in Bonn, Activists Are Saying ‘See You in Court'”, Pacific Standard, November 22, 2017
- “FERC, pipelines and climate change: Revolution in Progress?”, E&E News, November 21, 2017
- “Students Win Environmental Law Writing Competition,” Columbia Law School News, November 17, 2017
- “These people think President Trump is too liberal on climate”, The Washington Post, November 13, 2017
- “Peruvian farmer squares up to German power giant in climate lawsuit”, Thomas Reuters Foundation, November 10, 2017
- “How Responsible Is Each Country When an Extreme Climate Event Strikes?”, InsideClimate News, November 9, 2017
- “Citing Climate Change ‘Death and Destruction,’ Philadelphia Group Sues U.S. Government”, Climate Liability News, November 6, 2017
- “EPA, Pruitt may face lawsuits over advisory board changes”, The Hill, November 7, 2017
- “How Trump White House Wound up Releasing Dire Climate Report”, Bloomberg, November 6, 2017
- “Will Global Warming Make Air Conditioning a Legal Right?”, Governing, November 3, 2017
- “Climate change lawsuits”, The Economist, November 2, 2017
October 2017
- Under Trump, the lines are drawn for a battle over resources in the West“, Los Angeles Times, October 27, 2017
- “Presidential Administration and the Durability of Climate-Consciousness”, Yale Law Journal, October 26, 2017
- “Debate Over Environmental Rights and State Constitutional Convention”, New York Law Journal, October 25, 2017
- “For American Corporation, Winning Is Not Enough”, Boston Review, October 25, 2017
- “Climate Liability Gains Ground, With New Research, Experts Say”, Climate Liability News, October 24, 2017
- “FERC Faces Barrage of Comments on DOE’s Coal, Nuclear Cost-Recovery Rule”, GreenTech Media, October 19, 2017
- “Climate Liability Plaintiffs Brace for Industry’s Retaliation Tactics“, Climate Liability News, October 19, 2017
- The Climate Swerve, C-SPAN, October 18, 2017
- “How the U.S. might fulfill its Paris Pledge without the White House”, Phys.Org, October 17, 2017
- “Judge Allows ‘Necessity’ Defense by Climate Activists in Oil Pipeline Protest”, Inside Climate News, October 16, 2017
- “Why Trump’s Plan to Repeal the Clean Power Plan Isn’t Catastrophic“, Pacific Standard, October 16, 2017
- “A Courtship Started Under the Midnight Sun”, The New York Times, October 14, 2017
- “Industry seeks legal cover with replacement rule”, E&E News, October 12, 2017
- “How Scott Pruitt’s EPA Is Erasing Obama’s Climate Change Legacy“, Frontline, October 11, 2017
- “Trump’s Clean Power Plan Repeal Will Face Legal Gantlet”, Law360, October 10, 2017
- “Legal war looms as EPA targets climate rule”, E&E News, October 10, 2017
- “On EPA greenhouse rules, Trump again hits ‘repeal and replace’ problem”, Charleston Gazette-Mail, October 10, 2017
- “Trump’s Plans to Demolish Clean Power Plan Revealed”, Clean Technica, October 6, 2017
- “48 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump”, The New York Times, October 5, 2017
- “Industry Lawsuits Try to Paint Environmental Activism as Illegal Racket”, Inside Climate News, October 5, 2017
- “Trump’s push to ignore climate costs generates a backlash in court, slowing some projects”, Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2017
- “What Happens if Oil Companies Are Forced to Pay for Climate Change”, Vice, October 2, 2017
September 2017
- “Ex-EPA Boss Slams ‘Rearview Mirror’ Trump Administration“, Law360, September 28, 2017
- Climate Change lawsuits heating up, Climate Cast, September 28, 2017
- “Databases Showcase Climate Change Legislation and Litigation Worldwide”, IISD, September 26, 2017
- “Is Climate-Themed Fiction All Too Real? We Asked the Experts”, The New York Times, September 26, 2017
- “Trump Administration May Soon Ax Obama’s Big Climate Rule”, Scientific American, September 25, 2017
- “Six climate change solutions we can all agree on”, Phys.Org, September 22, 2017; republished courtesy of Earth Institute
- “San Francisco, Oakland Sue 5 Oil Giants for Climate Change Impacts”, Climate Liability News, September 20, 2017
- “Taiwan delivers first Agenda 2030 performance review”, Taipei Times, September 17, 2017
- “ A weakened CEQ gets a chance to flex its muscles”, E&E News, September 15, 2017
- “Uncertainty about Hydrologically Connected Groundwater Has Implications in New York”, The New York Law Journal, September 14, 2017
- “Will Hurricane Harvey Launch a New Kind of Climate Lawsuit?” , Inside Climate News, September 13, 2017
- “Advocates blame oil giants for climate change, call Chevron n. 1 culprit”, San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2017
- “Lawsuit: Shell Knew Climate Risks in Providence and Ignored Them”, Climate Liability News, September 12, 2017
- “After Harvey, now come the lawsuits”, Khmer Times, September 12, 2017
- “We Need to Be Better Prepared for the Next Irma”, Fortune, September 11, 2017
- “Science in Litigation, the third branch of U.S. climate policy”, Science Magazine, September 8, 2017
- “Massive Western Wildfires Spark Question: Should Climate Polluters Pay?“, Climate Liability News, September 8, 2017
- “Florida’s Senators Aren’t Happy With Trump’s NASA Pick”, Express Newsline, September 7, 2017
- “Half of Modern Global Warming Caused by 90 Companies, New Study Concludes”, Climate Liability News, September 7, 2017
- “White House Announces Picks for NASA Chief and NOAA Deputy Duty”, Earth and Space Science News, September 5, 2017
- “Analysis – Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath could see pioneering climate lawsuits”, Thomas Reuters Foundation, September 5, 2017
- “Trump’s pipeline agenda takes a hit with court ruling”, Washington Examiner, September 5, 2017
- “These kids aren’t old enough to vote, but that isn’t stopping them from trying to save the world”, ThinkProgress, September 5, 2017
August 2017
- “Harvey Cleanup Tests Trump Plan to Shrink EPA by 8 percent”, Bloomberg BNA, August 31, 2017
- “Trump makes it more difficult to rebuild for future floods”, The Associated Press, August 30, 2017
- “Want to be mad about government insurance? Be mad about the program that will be critical after Harvey”, The Washington Post, August 28, 2017;
- “Hurricane Harvey: Climate Change’s Staggering Human and Economic Toll on Display“, Climate Liability News, August 28, 2017
- “Major ruling against FERC shakes up climate law”, E&E News, August 23, 2017
- “Giving Middle Finger to Appalachian Communities, Trump Kills Study of Mountaintop Removal Health Impacts”, Common Dreams, August 21, 2017
- “Trump Disbands Federal Panel to Fight Climate Change”, Jezebel, August 20, 2017
- “Trump executive order: The White House doesn’t think sea-level rise is important to US infrastructure”, Quartz, August 15, 2017
- “California Communities Impacted By Rising Seas File Climate Suit”, WAER, August 12, 2017
- “Students, Cities and States Take the Climate Fight to Court”, The New York Times, August 10, 2017
- “A federal court dealt another blow to Obama’s climate legacy”, ThinkProgress, August 9, 2017
- “‘Huge test’ for Gov. Cuomo’s climate leadership”, E&E News, August 7, 2017
- “Scrapping Climate Protections Would Erase $300 Billion in Benefits, Study Finds”, Inside Climate News, August 7, 2017
- “Obama Emissions Rules Could Yield $300 Billion Annually by 2030”, Scientific American, August 4, 2017; reprinted from Climatewire with permission from E&E News
- “Writing the Script for Your Next Act”, The New York Times, August 4, 2017
- “Federal court kneecaps EPA’s plan to slash regulations”, Vice News, August 1, 2017
July 2017
- “California Climate Loss & Damage”, Living on Earth, July 28, 2017
- “Utilities Knew About Climate Change in 1968 and Perpetrated an ‘Ongoing Deception’, Report Says”, The Weather Channel, July 27, 2017
- “The Only Heartwarming Story You’ll Read About Climate Change Today”, Mother Jones, July 25, 2017
- “Rising temperatures can kill Texas prisoners. Corrections ignored that, says federal judge”, PBS Newshour, July 22, 2017
- “These 21 kids taking on Trump could be our best hope for climate action”, Grist, July 21, 2017
- “Encana named in California climate related lawsuit”, The Canadian Press, July 21, 2017
- “Alberta’s Encana Among 20 Multinationals Sued Over Climate Change”, Huffington Post Canada, July 20, 2017
- “This could be the next big strategy for suing over climate change”, The Washington Post, July 20, 2017
- “Three Communities Are Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Over Rising Sea Levels”, Motherboard, July 20, 2017
- “New Tactic in Climate Change Litigation Could Cost Energy Companies Billions. Or Not.”, The Recorder, July 20, 2017
- “California communities are suing 37 fossil fuel companies over climate damages”, ThinkProgress, July 19, 2017
- “The Business of Environmental Law Under Trump: Q&A”, Bloomberg Law, July 19, 2017
- “Rising Seas Spark Tobacco-Style Lawsuits in California”, Climate Central, July 19, 2017
- “Coastal Communities Sue 37 Oil, Gas, and Coal Companies Over Climate Change”, Inside Climate News, July 18, 2017
- “Marin, San Mateo counties sue Big Oil over climate change”, San Francisco Gate, July 17, 2017
- “Climate Actions: when the law gets involved”, Geographical, July 15, 2017
- “Going Rogue on Climate Change: States Respond to Trump’s Policy Changes”, The Politic, July 15, 2017
- “Bar Wars: Climate in Court”, The Huffington Post, July 10, 2017
June 2017
- “We have 3 Years to Save the Planet from Climate Disaster, Experts Warn”, The Weather Channel, June 29, 2017
- “US Cities Announce 100% Renewables Targets”, SDG Knowledge Hub,June 27, 2017
- ” The EPA Just Announced That It Plans To Repeal The Clean Water Rule”, Buzzfeed News, June 27, 2017
- “Campus Sustainability Plan Details Emissions Targets”, Columbia Magazine
- “Should the United States be back in the Paris Climate Accord?”, Columbia College Today
- “Was Trump Tricked Into Pulling Out Of The Paris Agreement?”, Forbes, June 23, 2017
- “Can States and Cities Really Uphold the Paris Climate Deal?”, Governing the States and Localities, June 21, 2017
- “How Firm is Big Oil’s Backing of a Republican-led Carbon Tax?” Environmental Leader, June 21, 2017
- “Exxon Mobil lends its support to a Carbon Tax Proposal”, The New York Times, June 20, 2017
- “Exxon Mobil backs carbon tax plan proposed under ‘conservative climate solution'”, The Dallas Morning News, June 20, 2017
- “How U.S. Cities and States Can Engage in International Climate Action”, UNFCCC newsroom, June 19, 2017
- “Pruitt supports ‘sustainable’ goals connected to climate“, E&E News, June 13, 2017
- “Advocates go to court as Trump unwinds climate policy”, E&E News, June 13, 2017
- “States take lead on climate amid and swirling legal questions”, E&E News, June 7, 2017
- “Withdrawing from the Paris deal takes four years. Our next president could join again in 30 days“, The Gazette, June 5, 2017
- “9 Things To Know About Trump’s Paris Agreement Decision”, Law360, June 2, 2017
- “What’s Next in US withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement”, ABC News, June 2, 2017
- “The Energy 202: Trump’s Paris speech needs a serious fact check”, The Washington Post, June 2, 2017
- “Wake up Call: Associate Pay Stagnates, Despite Cravath Bump”, Bloomberg Law, June 2, 2017
- “Trump Sends Political Decision Message With Paris Decision”, Morning Consult, June 1, 2017
- “Fact-checking Trump’s speech on Paris climate agreement”, USA Today, June 1, 2017
- “Trump quits the Paris climate accord, denouncing it as a violation of U.S. sovereignty”, Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2017
May 2017
- “Trump is Pulling out of the Paris Agreement? Here’s what will happen”, UN Dispatch, May 31, 2017
- “Trump is reportedly withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement”, ThinkProgress, May 31, 2017
- “Political climate stands in way of environmental change”, The Daily Californian, May 30, 2017
- “Governments sued over climate change with banks and firms next”, New Scientist, May 26, 2017
- “GOP Senators Urging Trump to Dump the Paris Climate Agreement Gets Legal Argument Wrong, Law Experts Say”, Inside Climate News, May 26, 2017
- “Climate Change Litigation Growing Rapidly, Says Global Study”, State of the Planet, Earth Institute, May 24, 2017
- “More people heading to court to spur action on climate change, study finds”, The Guardian, May 23, 2017
- “Climate change court cases on the rise globally, majority in the U.S.”, Thomas Reuters Foundation, May 23, 2017
- “Environmental partners of Obama administration quickly turn into litigation adversaries of Trump”, The Washington Times, May 16, 2017
- “Scorned Law May Be Environmentalists’ Tool to Protect EPA Data”, Bloomberg BNA, May 16, 2017
- “Trump Could Do More Damage By Staying In Paris Climate Deal — analysis”, Eurasia Review, May 15, 2017
- “Rising conservative voices call for climate change action”, PBS Newshour, May 14, 2017
- “NYISO Carbon Adder to the Test FERC’s Independence, IPPNY Panelists Say”, RTO Insider, May 14, 2017
- “Weekly wrap: Macron win, Amazon murder and Arctic accord”, Climate Home, May 12, 2017
- “Mapped: Climate Change Laws around the World“, Carbon Brief, May 11, 2017
- “Climate Change Legislation Surges WorldWide”, Truthdig, May 11, 2017
- “Kids Sue the Feds & Budget Bill: VICE News Tonight Full Episode”, VICE News, May 10, 2017
- “Trump’s Ominous Climate Plans”, The Asia Sentinel, May 10, 2017
- “Trump could do more damage by staying in the Paris climate deal”, IRIN News, May 9, 2017
- “Database Tracks Global Climate Law”, Earth Institute, May 9, 2017
- “More countries are backing their Paris pledges with national laws”, Ghana News Agency, May 9, 2017
- “The EPA’s Obama-era snapshot is missing information”, Bonner County Daily Bee, May 5, 2017
- “Even architects of Paris Climate Agreement disagree with Trump’s reading of it”, Mashable, May 4, 2017
- “Kids Suing Trump Hope the Courts Step Up on Climate Change”, Moyers & Company, May 3, 2017
- “The Battle Against Trump’s Assault on Climate is Moving to the Courts”, Yale Environment 360, May 2, 2017
April 2017
- “The kids suing Donald Trump are marching to the White House”, CNN, April 29, 2017
- “Donald Trump’s first 100 days catastrophic for the environment, say climate experts”, Independent, April 29, 2017
- “Two Glaciers in India Granted Personhood Status, Court Rules”, Glacier Hub, April 27, 2017
- “Early skirmishes on Trump policies prefigure long legal war”, E&E News, April 27, 2017
- “The 4 Worst Things Donald Trump Has Done to the Environment”, Time, April 27, 2017
- “One Big Legal Obstacle Keeps Trump from Undoing Greenhouse Gas Regulation”, Scientific American, April 26, 2017
- “Experts question if EPA will consider thousand of comments”, E&E News, April 24, 2017
- “The Carbon Brief Interview: Michael Gerrard”, Carbon Brief, April 19, 2017
- “Scientist Leaves Trump Administration With a Bang, Not A Whimper”, Northwest Public Radio, April 16, 2017
- “Musharaff: Climate Change isn’t Pakistan’s problem”, E&E News, April 14, 2017
- “Survey: Most enviro officials tied to fossil fuel industry”, Climatewire, April 12, 2017
- “New York, California lead state efforts on climate change as Trump retreats”, Newsweek, April 9, 2017
- “Trump has attacked climate policy. Is science next?”, E&E News, April 6, 2017
- “Congress’ ‘Political Theater’ Threatens Science, Climate”, Climate Central, April 6, 2017
- “What Trump’s Executive Order Means for the Environment“, Knowledge@Wharton, April 3, 2017
March 2017
- “Courts now at front line in battles over climate change”, The Christian Science Monitor, March 29, 2017
- “Killing NEPA guidance won’t stop lawsuits over impacts”, Greenwire, March 29, 2017
- “US President Trump Signs Order to Roll Back Obama Climate Projections”, Alliance News, March 29, 2017
- “Is Pruitt’s 2014 Plan a Blueprint for Carbon Rule Replacement?”, BNA Bloomberg, March 29, 2017
- “Undoing the Clean Power Plan Will be a Legal Nightmare”, New Republic, March 29, 2017
- “Trump EO reopens coal leasing, targets oil and gas rules”, Climatewire, March 29, 2017
- “Trump’s Executive Order: More Fossil Fuels, Regardless of Climate Change”, Inside Climate News, March 28, 2017
- “Trump trades the planet for a few coal jobs in a doomed industry”, The Verge, March 28, 2017
- “U.S. Cities Know That Dropping the Clean Power Plan Is A Huge Mistake”, The Huffington Post, March 28, 2017
- “Trump’s Executive Order Pushes the U.S. Climate Pledge Further Out of Reach”, The New York Times, March 28, 2017
- “Trump’s order will unravel America’s best tool against climate change”, Mashable, March 28, 2017
- Trump’s big new executive order to tear up Obama’s climate policies, explained”, Vox, March 28, 2017
- “Trump Just Approved the Keystone XL Pipeline”, Climate Central, March 24, 2017
- “Report: Sea Level Rise May Permanently Alter Coastal Communities”, WSHU Public Radio, March 21, 2017
- “Faced with rising seas, French Polynesia ponders floating islands”, Thomson Reuters Foundation, March 20, 2017
- “How Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Quietly Wipes Out Environmental Cases”, Mother Jones, March 20, 2017
- “Trump’s plan for the EPA is death by ‘a thousand cuts'”, PRI, March 17, 2017
- “Does Golden State Hold Trump Card on Auto Emissions?”, BNA Bloomberg, March 15, 2017
- “What to Expect from Trump’s Environmental Policy”, Science Friday, March 14, 2017
- “This climate lawsuit could change everything. No wonder the Trump administration doesn’t want it going to trial”, Washington Post, March 9, 2017
- “Rules Frozen by Trump Could Melt Away Without a Trace”, ProPublica, March 8, 2017
- “New York’s New Sea Level Rise Will Affect Land Use, Infrastructure”, New York Law Journal, March 8, 2017
- “Trump Wants to Dismantle the Clean Water Rule. Here’s What’s at Stake”, Huffington Post, March 7, 2017
- “EPA to Oil and Gas Industry: We’d Rather Not Know How Much You Pollute”, The Weather Company, March 3, 2017
- “Tables are turning as state AGs set their sights on Pruitt”, E&E News, March 1, 2017
February 2017
- “How Exactly Will Pruitt Kill Clean Power Plan?”, Bloomberg BNA, February 28, 2017
- “Trial of the Century Pits Trump Climate Denialism Against ‘Right to a Climate System Capable of Sustaining Human Life’ “, Common Dreams, February 24, 2017
- “Will Decline in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Survive Trump Presidency?”, Bloomberg BNA, February 18, 2017
- “Citizen Lawsuits Will Hinder Any Slash and Burn of the EPA,” Inverse, February 17, 2017
- “Trump’s Executive Order On Regulatory Costs Undermines Congressional Authority,” Huffington Post, February 16, 2017
- “Climate Change Concerns Prompt Court to Block Vienna Airport Expansion,” Inside Climate News, February 15, 2017
- “Can a children’s lawsuit force action on climate change?,” The Christian Science Monitor, February 11, 2017
- “U.S. Conservatives Unveil Plan to Fight Climate Change,” National Geographic, February 11, 2017
- “The US EPA Has Begun Removing Obama-era Information,” Clean Technica, February 10, 2017
- “Youth activists name Trump in landmark suit against U.S. over climate change,” Duluth News Tribune, February 10, 2017
- “Republican Leaders Propose Carbon Tax, Seek Solution to Climate Change Risks,” A Plus, February 9, 2017
- “The 11-Year-Old Suing Trump Over Climate Change,” The Atlantic, February 9, 2017
- “A Clean Environment Is A National Good – Even When An Anti-Regulator Says Otherwise,” Sierra Magazine, February 9, 2017
- “Long-Shot Carbon Tax Plan Aims For Policy Consensus,” Law 360, February 8, 2017
- “Trump’s EPA Is Removing Climate Change Information From Website,” Climate Central, February 2, 2017
- “Donald Trump Faces Lawsuit From Local Teen Over Climate Change,” WNYC, February 1, 2017
- “Would Gorsuch’s skepticism on Chevron spell doctrine’s demise?,” E&E NEWS, February 1, 2017
January 2017
- “How 21 kids could keep climate websites from going completely dark,” Yahoo News, January 27, 2017
- “What’s at Stake for the Clean Energy Industry in the First 100 Days of Trump?” Green Tech Media, January 25, 2017
- “Trump freezes grants, approves pipelines and considers sharp budget cuts at the EPA,” Newsweek, January 24, 2017
- “Climate Regulations Under a Watchful Internet Eye,” Inside Climate News, January 23, 2017
- “Sabin Center’s Climate ‘Deregulatory Tracker’ Could Aid Trump Opponents,” Inside EPA, January 23, 2017
- “Donald Trump is getting ready to hammer the EPA,” Vox, January 23, 2017
- “It’s judges, not Trump, who will decide Obama’s environmental legacy,” The Verge, January 20, 2017
- “Trump could enact sweeping changes to environment policy: experts,” AFP, January 18, 2017
- “Scott Pruitt’s Climate Denial Will Harm Americans, But It Will Ultimately Lose In Court,” The Huffington Post, January 17, 2017
- “Trump Nominees Should Answer These Questions,” Standard Examiner, January 10, 2017
- “New York Environmental Legislation: 2016 in Review,” New York Law Journal, January 12, 2017
- “Trump’s SEC Nominee Told Firms To Admit Climate Change Risks,” BuzzFeedNews, January 9, 2017
- “Trump’s secretary of state nominee may soon testify in a global warming trial,” Mashable, January 5, 2017