The number of plaintiffs taking energy firms to court for ignoring climate-related risks is growing. By revealing how the sector is not prepared—and not preparing—for what is coming, their cases are pressing the energy sector to treat those risks as a cost of doing business.
Justin GundlachFebruary 17, 2020
This article assesses how the Green New Deal, and particularly renewable energy, will fare under current siting and environmental protection statutory regimes and concludes that for the Green New Deal to success in its renewable energy and infrastructure goals, these regulatory regimes will need to tolerate more streamlined, top-down, preemptive…
J.B. Ruhl and James SalzmanFebruary 4, 2020
This article discusses the integration of an ecosystem services framework into land use and environmental governance and outlines general principles and guidelines for local policy.
J.B. RuhlJanuary 1, 2020
This article discusses the problem of cascade failures and how to control them, and the particular governance challenges for strategies to control such failures in the context of large scale social-ecological-technological systems.
J.B. RuhlOctober 18, 2019
This article traces the policy evolution that embedded consideration of ecosystem services in lands management, assesses why and how that happened and what it means for the future of lands management, and argues that land management agencies' emphasis on the flow of ecosystem services from public lands to off-site human…
J.B. Ruhl and James SalzmanOctober 17, 2019
These comments to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Public Utilities Regulatory Authority discuss their proposed distributed energy resource value categories, encouraging the agencies to include electricity system resilience and community resilience in their list of value categories.
Justin GundlachAugust 21, 2019
Local fees or timing limits may help to address the energy impact of new development.
Jim Rossi and Christopher SerkinMarch 1, 2019
This book chapter discusses specific policy changes to electric power mandates, subsidies, and retail customer charges that can help facilitate the transition to deep decarbonization of the power sector.
Jim RossiFebruary 21, 2019
This report follows TCFD's framework for disclosure and provides support and guidance to oil and gas companies and investors for how to put the TCFD framework to use for disclosure of methane emissions.
Andrew Logan, Sean Allen, Sean Wright and Kate GaumondOctober 17, 2018