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The Divestment Lawsuit Against the Harvard Corporation

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By Ted Hamilton—December 9 at 1:01 p.m.

This blog post contains the views of the author alone, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Harvard Environmental Law Review.

On November 19, I and six other Harvard students brought a lawsuit against the university’s governing Corporation to compel it to divest its holdings from fossil fuel companies. Our case, … [Read more…] about The Divestment Lawsuit Against the Harvard Corporation

Toward Greener FERC Regulation of the Power Industry

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August 12, 2014 at 1:30pm
America’s electricity industry is at the heart of some of the nation’s and world’s biggest environmental challenges, including climate change. Yet the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), which has regulatory jurisdiction over wholesale sales and transmission of electricity in interstate commerce and is charged with ensuring that rates and … [Read more…] about Toward Greener FERC Regulation of the Power Industry

Protecting pensions in the face of climate change and corporate law

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By Molly Cohen — Jan. 21 at 10:25am

As climate change threatens to reshape our coastlines and rewrite our expected weather patterns, it poses another less obvious but very real threat: climate change may decimate  our retirement funds.

Investment funds, like other corporate forms, are bound by the bedrock corporate law tenets of shareholder primacy and profit-maximization. … [Read more…] about Protecting pensions in the face of climate change and corporate law

The First Cut is the Deepest: EPA Proposes First GHG Cuts for Power Plants

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By Cecilia Segal — Oct. 9, 2013 at 2:14pm

On September 20, 2013, EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to set standards of performance for GHGs emitted from new stationary sources. The proposal calls for new natural gas-fired plants to be built with an emissions limit of 1,000 lb CO2/MWh for smaller units and 1,100 lb CO2/MWh for larger units. New coal-fired plants must … [Read more…] about The First Cut is the Deepest: EPA Proposes First GHG Cuts for Power Plants