Jeff Civins taught science in New York City schools before he graduated from the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on environmental litigation. It’s not surprising, then, that the part-time educator and partner in Haynes and Boone in Austin views the Obama administration’s newly unveiled climate change proposals as an occasion for lawyers to teach their clients about alternative fuel options, carbon capturing technologies and energy conservation solutions.
The state distinguishes itself as one big laboratory for such possibilities, he said. Those possibilities abound in Texas, where a confluence of geography, geology, demographics and industrial strength create innumerable options for businesses that want to make money from lowering carbon emissions.
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