Sabin Center in the News, 2011

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

December

• “Survey finds inconsistent consideration of climate impacts in NEPA studies,” Greenwire, Dec. 15, 2011

November

• “Debate pits Montana’s vast coal reserves against climate concerns,” Billings Gazette, Nov. 20, 2011

September

• “Breaking Through,” Columbia Law School Magazine, Fall 2011
• “Report: EPA Cut Corners On Climate Finding,” The Guardian, Sept. 28, 2011
• “Island Nation Girds for Legal Battle Against Industrial Emissions,” New York Times, Sept. 28, 2011
• “Island Landowners Have That Sinking Feeling,” CQ Global Researcher, Sept. 6, 2011 • Volume 5, Number 17

August

• “The Global Lawyer: Blame Canada!” The American Lawyer, August 02, 2011

July

• “A Golden Opportunity to Please Conservatives and Liberals Alike,” An Economic View of the Environment, by Robert Stavins, July 24, 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.
• “U.S.: Climate Change May Pose Biggest Security Threat” IPS, July 1, 2011.
• “Climate Change in Court,” Nature Climate Change 1, (2011)

June

• “High court rejects climate change suit,“Law.com, June 20, 2011
• “Supreme Court Slaps Down Climate Suit by Attorneys General,” WNYC.org, June 20, 2011
• “High Court Blocks States’ Lawsuit Over Coal Plant Emissions,” The New York Times, June 20, 2011
• “SCOTUS Sides with Emitters in Major Global Warming Case” Mother Jones, June 20, 2011
• “Columbia conference asks: What if climate change submerges small island states?” Greenconduct.com, June 8, 2011
• “Columbia Law Project to Help Clean-Energy Investment,” IndiaWest.com, June 7, 2011
• “EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Ruling Safe Despite Lawsuit, Legal Experts Say,” June 1, 2011

May

• “Rising Seas Threaten Marshall Islands,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 30, 2011
• “I am a Rock, I am an Island: How Submerged Islands Could Keep Their Statehood,” The Economist, May 26, 2011
• “Island Nations May Keep Some Sovereignty if Rising Seas Make Them Uninhabitable,” The New York Times, May 25, 2011
• “For Island Nations Threatened by Climate Change, Conference Outlines Their Legal Remedies,” Columbia Law School, May 23, 2011
• “Va. Supreme Court to Rule on Insurance Coverage of Warming Claims,” The New York Times, May 19, 2011
• “New York Conference to Consider Legal Challenges of Climate Change,” Radio Australia, May 18, 2011
• “Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas, May 23-25,” The Earth Institue, Columbia University, May 17, 2011
• “Climate Change Conference Will Feature Small Islands,” The Royal Gazette, May 10, 2011
• “Columbia Law School Conference to Address Legal Options for Island Nations Threatened by Rising Seas,” Columbia Law School, May 9, 2011
• “Major climate change meeting at Columbia University this month,” Marianas Variety, May 6, 2011
• “President Zedkaia to Address RMI’s New York Conference,” The Marshall Islands Journal, Vol. 42, No. 18, page 3, May 6, 2011
• “Suit Accuses U.S. Government of Failing to Protect Earth for Generations Unborn,” The New York Times, May 5, 2011
• “Major Law Revision Needed to Cope with Climate Change,” Radio Australia, May 5, 2011
• “Climate activists target states with lawsuits,” Associated Press, May 4, 2011
• “Marshall Islands Prepares to Host Big Climate Conference in New York,” Yokwe, May 2, 2011

April

• “Several Liability Scenarios against Nuclear Plant Operator Loom, Professor Curtis Milhaupt Says,” Columbia Law School website, April 19, 2011
• “Sujana group gives grant to India Clean Energy Project” SiliconIndia, April 20, 2011
• “Sujana Group awards grant to Foster U.S. Investment in India Clean-Energy Projects” India Infoline News Service, April 20, 2011
• “An Overview of the Model Green Buildings Ordinance,” NYSBA New York Environmental Lawyer, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter 2011
• “Book Review: The Law of Green Buildings: Regulatory and Legal Issues in Design, Construction, Operations, and Financing,” NYSBA New York Environmental Lawyer, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter 2011
• “China may have grounds to defeat U.S. WTO case over wind turbine subsidies—experts,” E&E ClimateWire, April 1, 2011

March

• “Obama administration can’t wait to sell China all the coal it can burn,” Grist.org, March 24, 2011
• “Partner Spotlight: “Saving a Sinking Paradise” Partners, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2011

February

• “GHG Rules’ Low Cost Won’t Curtail Legal Storm,” Law 360, Feb. 18, 2011
• “Another effort to standardize wind farm setbacks,” Midwest Energy News, Feb. 17, 2011
• “Need help creating wind-power ordinances?” Utica Observer Dispatch, Feb. 15, 2011
• “Columbia law professor says Katrina ruling could have lasting impact on environmental law,” Louisiana Record, Feb. 11, 2011

January

• “Law School’s Gerrard Sees Little Hope for Climate Bill This Year,” The Record, Jan. 31, 2011
• “Climate change: Dogs of law are off the leash,” Agence France-Presse,  Jan. 23, 2011
• “What Hu’s Washington Visit Says About Climate Change,” Huffington Post, Jan. 14, 2011