Columbia Law School & Columbia Climate School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law develops legal tools to combat the climate crisis.
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📰 Check out our second Climate Litigation January #Newsletter: buff.ly/kvIscs7
Highlights include:
⚖️US & Global Cases Summaries
📚Recent Publications
💻Upcoming #webinar on Asian Climate Litigation
📉 🚨 New Sabin Center reports on renewable energy development in the U.S.:
📰 Press release→ climate.law.columbia.edu/new…
✍️ Blog post → blogs.law.columbia.edu/clima…
#RenewableEnergy #ClimateLaw
1️⃣The Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the U.S. report identifies 888 state and local restrictions on renewable energy development, while 567 projects have faced significant local opposition: buff.ly/VhWAW6o
2️⃣ Since local opposition is often grounded in misinformation, we also released a second report, Rebutting 38 False Claims About Solar, Wind, Electric Vehicles, and Battery Storage examining 38 false claims about solar, wind, EVs and battery storage: buff.ly/2BYEFOo
💻⚖️Missed our #webinar this past Monday? Leading experts explored the explore the evolving landscape of #climatelitigation across #Asia. Check out the recording here: youtu.be/QPwfnIFQYrI
Subscribe to our #youtube channel: youtube.com/@sabincenterforc…
⚖️🌏 🗣️ Call for #Presentations
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School invite submissions for the Attribution Science and Climate Law Conference, June 10–11, 2026, at @ColumbiaLaw in NYC. Learn more here
➡️climate.law.columbia.edu/con…
US: Fourth Circuit Vacated Injunctions on Federal Government Terminations of Funding Under Inflation Reduction Act and Other Laws
🇳🇱 : District Court of the Hague Finds that Dutch State Failed to Take Sufficient Mitigation and Adaptation Measures to Protect Residents of Bonaire
🌍 ⚖️ Full update on climate cases in the US and internationally, available ➡️ buff.ly/PnYc1ka
A Dutch court ordered the Netherlands to protect a Caribbean island from #climatechange.
The Sabin Center’s Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre notes in an interview with @nytimes that “there’s a very clear state responsibility now” following the decision.
🔗 buff.ly/d0oabJU
📜 On January 26, we filed an amici brief in Renew Northeast v. US DOI, in support of plaintiffs who are challenging a number of anti-renewables federal actions that implicate wind and solar projects on rural private lands. 🍃 ☀️
Read the brief ➡️ buff.ly/vpSirJ6
⚖️🌏💻Next Monday, February 2, the Sabin Center is hosting a #webinar, in which leading legal scholars and practitioners will explore the evolving landscape of #climatelitigation across #Asia.
Info ➡️ buff.ly/JkAYwvA
Register ➡️ buff.ly/CJ8sW10
📚⚖️ One year into Trump 2.0, federal climate deregulation has intensified. The Sabin Center’s #ClimateBacktracker documents 300+ federal actions undermining climate mitigation and adaptation across agencies. 📊 🔗 buff.ly/zUQv6ln
#ClimateLaw #ClimateBacktracker
🚫 🔋💨☀️ Efforts include making permits harder for wind & solar, fast-tracking fossil fuel projects, and proposing to undo foundational climate safeguards like EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations.
Amazon Protects, Phase 4 explores how Brazil’s public prosecutors are teaming up to combat illegal deforestation in the Amazon—through enforcement, litigation, and accountability: buff.ly/meIREdI
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📚📰The Sabin Center produces books, book chapters, law review articles, working papers, among other types of #publications. We add these to Columbia Law School’s Scholarship Archive & link through from our website.
Check out our recent work here: buff.ly/3vCnLGV
🌟🗓️On May 21-22, 2026, we will host our 14th Annual Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship, which will allow junior environmental law scholars to present their work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior scholars: buff.ly/3EKGrqV
🏙️📉 Today, the Sabin Center releases a new report titled Navigating State Law in Local Climate Action, which unpacks key state-local preemption issues in 19 states.
📰Press release: buff.ly/PZkpFCJ
✍️Blog: buff.ly/wMSG0dD
#Cities #climatelaw #climateaction
