Sabin Center in the News, 2015

This page lists articles from this year that mention the Sabin Center, its work, or quote one or more of its staff.

December

• “Indian Point reactor license expires amid shutdown efforts,” Westfair Communications, December 28, 2015
• “Utah, SLC take opposite sides on federal Clean Power Plan,” The Salt Lake Tribune, December 28, 2015
• “Cities and States Are Split Over Obama’s Clean Power Plan,” Citylab, December 28, 2015
• “Where will the climate refugees go?” Aljazeera, December 22, 2015
• “Baltimore joins in backing Obama climate plan,” The Baltimore Sun, December 22, 2015
• “Cities move to defend Obama power plant rules,” The Hill, December 22, 2015
• “Cities join defense of EPA’s key carbon rule,” Reuters, December 22, 2015
• “In the Philippines, Largest Polluters Face Investigation for Climate Damage,” Inside Climate News, December 15, 2015
• “Under President Cruz, the United States could simply walk away from the landmark Paris climate deal,” The Washington Post, December 14, 2015
• “No, The Paris Climate Agreement Isn’t Binding. Here’s Why That Doesn’t Matter,” Climate Progress, December 14, 2015
• “New UN Report Details Link between Climate Change and Human Rights,” YubaNet, December 10, 2015
• “Saami, Inuit Push for Rights in Climate Agreement,”  Explore, December 9th, 2015
• “Bill de Blasio announces plan to cut municipal vehicle emissions in half by 2025,” Daily News, December 1, 2015
• “The crucial language behind the Paris climate talks,”  Aljazeera America, December 1, 2015

November

• “Columbia professors attending UN climate change conference are cautiously optimistic,” Columbia Spectator, November 30, 2015
• “For their second act, Keystone killers tackle Exxon,” Politico, November 28, 2015
• “Global Climate Deal Would Boost CPP’s Survival Chances,” Law360, November 25, 2015
• “Subpoena Power: Exxon’s Climate Scandal Now Under a Spotlight,” Inside Climate News, November 6, 2015
• “Exxon Inquiry Both Mirrors and Contrasts With Tobacco Industry Case,” The New York Times, November 6, 2015
• “Peabody disclosed N.Y. AG’s climate probe in March,” E&E News PM, November 6, 2015
• “Climate Change on Trial” Dissent, Fall 2015
• “Wind energy is being unfairly held back in California” The Sacramento Bee, November 2, 2015
• “Youths across US suing to push government on climate change” The Tribune, November 2, 2015
• “Wind Energy Is Being Unfairly Held Back in California” Sacramento Bee, November 2, 2015
• “Youths Across US Suing to Push US Government on Climate Change” San Luis Obispo Tribune, November 2, 2015

October

• “Will The Next Refugee Crisis Be An Environmental Refugee Crisis?” Big Think, October 9, 2015
• “Mystery in India’s climate change plan” Live Mint, October 09 2015
• “Pakistan judge orders state to enforce climate policies”, The star.com World, October 3, 2015
• “IPCC election: What makes a great UN climate science chief?  Climate Home, October 5, 2015

September

• “Here’s What 15 Experts Think of President Obama’s Record on the Environment,” Nationswell, September 18, 2015
• “Which Presidents Are the Greenest in U.S. History?” Nationswell, September 16, 2015
• “EPA Comments Underscore Uneven Climate Treatment In NEPA Reviews,” Climate Daily News, September 28, 2015
• “The Pope Wants Climate to Be a Human Rights Issue,” Climate Central, September 25th, 2015
• “How Global Warming Makes Overcrowded Prisons Even More Dangerous,”  Atlantic City Lab, September 25th, 2015
• “RGGI Allowance Price May Hit Key Milestone At First Auction Since Release of Power Plan,” Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report, September 9, 2015
• “Suits Could Target Officials Over Lack Of Climate Adaptation, Paper Warns,”Climate Daily News, September 01, 2015

August

• “Drilling Alaska. Shall Shell overcome?” The Arctic Journal, August 21, 2015
• “Scholars Model Climate Change ‘Protocols’ For Environmental Assessments of Projects,” Bloomberg BNA Daily Environmental Report, August 21, 2015 #162
• “Most States in Northeast Trading Program Plan to Meet Clean Power Plan Targets,” Bloomberg BNA Daily Environmental Report, August 14, 2015

July

• “State Green Energy Mandates Safe, But New Fights Ahead,” Law 360, July 15, 2015
• “Are countries legally required to protect their citizens from climate change?” Ensia, July 15, 2015
• “To stop the boats we must stop the warming,” The Sydney Morning Herald, July 13, 2015
• “Clean Power Plan: EPA Trying to Ready Final Rule for Publication by August 10; EPA May Include more Flexibility for 2020 Targets, But State Department Concerned about US Ability to Deliver on Global Reduction Commitments,” The Capital Forum, July 8, 2015

June

• “High Court’s EPA Ruling Cheered, But Hurdles Remain“Investor’s Business Daily, June 29, 2015
• “Halfway There: Countdown to Paris Climate Talks,” Climate Central, June 2, 2015

May

• “McConnell Tactics Unlikely to Block Interstate Trading Program Under Clean Power Plan,” Daily Environmental Reporter, May 1, 2015
• “A Novel Dutch Lawsuit Demands Government Cut Carbon Emissions,” NPR, May 4, 2015

April

• “Climate Change Threatens Superfund Sites, Which Could Affect Liability” Daily Environmental Report, April 24, 2015
• “Climate change censorship moves are at odds with changing public attitudes, new research shows,” Science Recorder, April 17, 2015
• “Dutch citizens are suing their government for failing to act on climate change,” Fusion, April 16, 2015
• “Taking Climate Change to Court,” Pacific and Standard, April 14, 2015
• “Climate Censorship Gains Steam in Red States,” Inside Climate News, April 13, 2015
• “Climate Change Activist Consider Necessity Defense,” New Yorker, April 11, 2015
• “Obama’s Climate Authority Came Straight From Congress,” US News, April 10, 2015
• “Need to Assess Coal Mine Air Impacts In Flux After Vacature of Permit Approval,” BNA Daily Environmental Report, April 10, 2015
• “Questions Likely to Remain for States Even After Clean Power Plan Is Finalized,” Energy and Climate Report, April 9, 2015
• “These Two Teenagers Are Suing the Oregon Government Over Climate Change,” VICE News, April 8, 2015.
• “Keystone XL Likely Not on the Table in Iran Nuclear Deal,” US News, April 3, 2015
• “Why FEMA Wants Your State to Stop Ignoring Climate Change,” Mother Jones, April 1, 2015

March

• “FEMA’s Climate Change Rule Could Make States Liable in Natural Disasters,” Arkansas Business, March 30, 2015
• “Comment Period on NEPA climate guidance ends with a bang,” Greenwire, March 26, 2015
• “The Constitutional foundation for the Clean Power Plan,” The Hill, March 19, 2015
• “Emissions by Makers of Energy Level Off, ” New York Times, March 13, 2015
• “Scale and Focus of Climate Litigation Outside of the United States,” New York Law Journal, March 12, 2015
• “Columbia Law School Creates Database of Climate Change Laws of the World,” Columbia Law School, March 9, 2015
• “What if states just say ‘no’ to climate rule?,” The Hill, March 8, 2015
• “US Leads International Climate Change Litigation Trend, Law Center Says,” BNA, March 4, 2015
• “McConnell Urges States To Withhold ESPS Plans But Some See Risks,” Climate Daily News, March 4, 2015
• “A tale of three states: Climate change planning,” March 2, 2015

February

• “University unveils first-ever global database of climate laws and policies,” February 23, 2015
• “Clearing a path for climate change,” UF News, February 17, 2015
• “Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption,” Columbia Law School, Feburary 13, 2015

January

• “President calls climate change the “greatest threat to future generations” in State of the Union,” PBS, January 21, 2015
• “Summer Rules: The Legal Strategy Behind EPA’s Carbon Plan,” US News, January 16, 2015
• “A Letter From the President of the New York City Bar Association,” Metropolitan Corporate Council, January 15, 2015
• “US Climate Action in an Era of Congressional Hostility,” Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago, January 9, 2015
• “To Undermine Paris Climate Talks, Stop EPA Clean Power Plan,” Forbes, January 8, 2015
• “Should Universities and Pension Funds Divest from Fossil Fuel Stocks?,” Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, January 7, 2015