Michael B. Gerrard

March 10, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Environmental Law column, Michael B. Gerrard of Columbia Law School and Arnold & Porter discusses portfolio standards, which require electric utilities to supply a certain percentage of their power from renewable sources, mandatory purchase by electric utilities of renewable energy from those who offer it, fuel standards, government procurement and other incentives that have been developed to increase the use of renewable energy.

By Michael B. Gerrard

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November 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In his Environmental Law column, Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, review laws enacted this year that concerned brownfields, pesticides, renewable energy, hazardous substances, recycling, SEQRA, and numerous other matters.

By Michael B. Gerrard

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March 23, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Michael B. Gerrard, a partner at Arnold & Porter, writes that the year's most important decision, and several less significant ones, concerned what has become one of the most vexing issues in SEQRA litigation - when the statute of limitations begins to run.

By Michael B. Gerrard

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July 27, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Michael B. Gerrard, a partner at Arnold & Porter, writes that an important element of most natural resource damages cases is the determination of the baseline, or the conditions that would have existed had the incident under investigation not occurred. But unless the oil spill or other incident happened in an area with a recent ecological assessment, baseline research poses real challenges.

By Michael B. Gerrard

11 minute read

May 12, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Environmental Law column, Michael B. Gerrard of Arnold & Porter discusses the decline in cases under the State Environmental Quality Review Act in 2010 due to the fiscal crises of the past two years, though there was a rise in administrative activity.

By Michael B. Gerrard

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April 01, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Michael B. Gerrard, the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, and senior counsel to Arnold & Porter, writes that while climate change legislation is mired in Congress, several units in the Obama administration have been using their existing statutory authority to adopt rules or guidance requiring extensive disclosures about greenhouse gases in a wide variety of contexts.

By Michael B. Gerrard

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