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Affordable Housing Is Climate Friendly Housing 

“States should prohibit local zoning ordinances that bar affordable, climate-friendly housing,” writes Bryn Hines L’24.

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How Will Philadelphia Finance Climate Change? 

Although cities will need $5.4 trillion annually through 2030 to combat climate change, they are currently receiving just 1% of those funds, writes Prof. Bill Burke-White.

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AI & Environmental Concerns 

In an interview with Environmental Innovations Initiative, Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses how artificial intelligence intersects with climate and environmental regulations. 

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Exploring ESG 

In Prof. Lisa M. Fairfax’s trailblazing course, students unpack the history of the ESG movement—and prepare to chart its future.

Sheridan Macy L'24

Climate Law & Human Rights 

Sheridan Macy L’24 shares her experience working at the intersections of environmental law and human rights.

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AI & Climate Change 

The Penn Program on Regulation launches a series of monthly workshops exploring the connections between artificial intelligence and climate change.

Shelly Welton

Combatting Luxury Emissions 

In The Journal, Prof. Shelley Welton argues for addressing “luxury emissions” to ignite a larger cultural shift against excessive carbon emissions.

Biden Vetoes Anti-ESG Resolution 

“Both the congressional resolution and the presidential veto represent a contentious battle,” writes Alexandra Walsh L’24, WG’26 for The Regulatory Review.

Modernizing the Federal Regulatory Process 

At Bloomberg Law, Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses President Biden’s executive order that aims to modernize and strengthen the federal regulatory system.

Sustainable Infrastructure and Energy 

Project Green Swan, co-developed by Mehrnoosh Aryanpour SJD’25, has been named winner of the Lauder Institute’s 2023 Jacobson Global Venture Award.

Grid Reliability Through Clean Energy 

Prof. Shelley Welton’s paper outlining innovative strategies for strengthening grid reliability while accelerating the nation’s transition to a lower-carbon energy system has been award ASU’s Morrison Prize.

The Law of Networks, Platforms, and Utilities 

Prof. Shelley Welton has co-authored a new casebook that encourages using the tools of NPU law to help address some of the most pressing problems of our time.

Thought Leadership: Closing the Climate Funding Gap 

Prof. Bill Burke-White proposes a “green investment treaty” to close the climate funding gap.

Neutralizing the Atmosphere 

“Disjunctive efforts toward net zero … threaten to undermine the legal, political, and physical foundations of the global project,” writes Prof. Shelley Welton.

Bolstering Environmental Initiatives 

Penn Carey Law offers a comprehensive range of opportunities related to climate change and the law.

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Cutting-Edge Environmental Courses 

Penn Carey Law students are learning how they can use their skills to advocate for a healthier, greener world.

Dangerous Opinion on Climate Change 

“[T[here is no escaping the conclusion that the opinion is dangerous on two fronts: for the climate and for administrative capacity more broadly,” writes Prof. Shelley Welton of the Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA.

The SEC and Climate-Related Disclosures 

Prof. Jill E. Fisch recently submitted a Comment Letter to the SEC regarding its authority to pursue climate-related disclosures.

Fractured State Responses 

Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses how states are responding to the Supreme Court’s decision that limits the EPA’s role in combatting climate change.

‘Devastating’ Climate Change Decision 

Prof. Shelley Welton calls the decision “bad for climate change and bad for people in the administration who are working creatively on solutions to the big, important problems that are facing the nation.”

SCOTUS Curbs EPA on Climate Change 

Penn Carey Law faculty respond to the Court’s recent decision that limits the EPA’s role in combatting climate change.

Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors 

The Honorable Leo E. Strine Jr. L’88 has submitted a letter to the SEC arguing that the agency should require climate-related disclosures to investors.

Environmental Justice Advocates 

The Environmental Law Project (ELP) is dedicated to environmental law and policy, fighting climate change, and advancing environmental justice

International Energy Perspectives 

Samuel Wong L’23 recently shared his experiences in one of the Law School’s Global Research Seminars, which yielded new perspectives on how countries can support clean technology.

Facing Climate Change with Optimism 

In “Climate Change & the Energy Evolution,” students learn how to use their legal skills to decarbonize the world’s economy.

Cryptocurrency and Climate Crisis 

Prof. Coglianese moderated a discussion with Duke Law’s Lawrence Baxter on cryptocurrencies and their far-reaching environmental impacts.

Amplifying Community Voices for Environmental Justice 

Valerie Baron L’12, LPS’13 works alongside communities most affected by the agriculture industry, helping to protect and preserve their rights.

The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet: The Peoples’ Right to a Healthy Environment by Franklin Kury L’61 

The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet: The Peoples’ Right to aHealthy Environment was published in April 2021 by the Environmental Law Institute.

Fellowship experience: Peter Jones L’20 

Jones is a Catalyst Fellow at the Environmental Defense Center.

As climate leaders gather in Glasgow, Prof. Cary Coglianese’s scholarship illuminates the challenges facing the Paris Agreement 

The Agreement’s structural limitations and increasing populism could inhibit the successful implementation of international climate mitigation strategies, observes Prof. Coglianese.

Energy and climate law professor joins Penn Carey Law and the Kleinman Center 

Shelley Welton’s faculty appointment is at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where she will hold an affiliation with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School.

Equal Justice Works Fellow Kate DiVasto L’21 centers young people’s voices in her advocacy 

In May 2021, DiVasto was announced as one of 77 law school graduates selected to serve as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in the 2021 Fellowship class.

Pathways to the Profession: Charlotte Raty L’23 

Charlotte Raty L’23 is interning at Bayou City Waterkeeper (BCWK) in Houston, Texas.

Legal scholarship of Jessica Rizzo L’21 published in three law journals 

Rizzo’s recently published pieces span constitutional, environmental, family, and intellectual property law.

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Faculty perspectives: Professor Coglianese weighs in on HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association 

Prof. Coglianese: The Supreme Court today stepped in to reverse the lower court, giving EPA more latitude to exempt even more refineries from renewable fuel requirements.

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Prof. Coglianese assesses environmental soft law as a governance strategy 

Prof. Coglianese offers an in-depth analysis of soft law governance of environmental quality, concluding that while it holds much appeal, decision makers should also be aware of its limitations.

Prof. Coglianese shares insight and analysis on conservation and environmental protection under the Biden administration 

Prof. Coglianese recently shared his insight and analysis on conservation and environmental protection under the Biden administration.

 

Prof. Coglianese’s research debunks myth that EPA is an agency ‘besieged by litigation’ 

In a new article, Prof. Coglianese compiles the first comprehensive empirical effort to track the last 50 years of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking and court decisions involving the agency. 

Pathways to the Profession: Lily Moran L’22 

Lily Moran L’22 is a legal intern for the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General.

Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic ‘makes dreams come true’ 

Through the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic, students work with entrepreneurs at all phases of the business cycle, from pre-formation to scaling to dissolution, turning visions into reality.