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Regional Energy Governance and U.S. Carbon Emissions

Julie Rose

March 24th 2020

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule that limits carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants—the Clean Power Plan—is an environmental regulation that powerfully influences energy law and forms a key part of the U.S. plan to meet its voluntary international commitments under the December 2015 Paris Agreement on climate ...

Does Active Choosing Promote Green Energy Use? Experimental Evidence

Julie Rose

March 24th 2020

Many officials have been considering whether it is possible or desirable to use choice architecture to increase the use of environmentally friendly (“green”) products and activities. The right approach could produce significant environmental benefits, including large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and better air quality. This Article presents new data ...

Climate Change and International Economic Law

Julie Rose

March 24th 2020

This Article examines an unexplored issue arising at the intersection of international economic law and international environmental law: How might international economic law adapt to allow states in the Global South, which are disproportionately impacted by the sudden and unforeseen impacts of global climate change, to exit or modify economic ...

A Brook with Legal Rights: The Rights of Nature in Court

Julie Rose

March 24th 2020

Our brooks will babble in the courts,/Seeking damages for torts. Over two decades ago, Professor Christopher Stone asked what turned out to be a question of enduring interest: should trees have standing? His question was recently answered in the affirmative by a creek in Pennsylvania, which successfully intervened in a ...

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