June 13, 2011

Monthly Climate Change Briefing

A special service for ELI institutional members, this half-hour monthly conference call provides a valuable way to keep on top of the legal and policy developments in the climate change arena.

Panelists for this month's event were:

• Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Georgetown University Climate Center
• Michael B. Gerrard, Director, Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
• Nikki Roy, Congressional Affairs Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change

The topics discussed during the June 13, 2011 call included:

• Activity in the AIR v. CARB suit concerning AB 32
• Refiling of the Comer case
• FOIA litigation in VA re climate scientists
• Possibility that EPA is going to delay electricity sector GHG NSPS
• Possible debt ceiling impacts on EPA
• NJ governor withdraws from RGGI but says no to new coal plants
• NH legislature votes not to leave RGGI
• VT governor announces Climate Cabinet, introducts distributed renewables legislation
• IL governor releases plan to boost renewables, efficiency

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