Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Congratulations to the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law on receiving an Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Environment Program grant for its Cities Climate Law Initiative, which will provide municipalities resources to address legal questions about climate action. @sabincenter.bsky.social

Join us for a live streamed post-show discussion on #climate accountability featuring the artists & @danielwilkinson.bsky.social, CRI; Kylie Ford, @sabincenter.bsky.social; James Browning, @fminus.bsky.social & moderated by Zamira Chevres,
@inthesameboat.bsky.social. Join here ➡️ bit.ly/4baPosU

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Symposium on Asian Climate Litigation YouTube video by Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

💻⚖️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

⚖️🌏 🗣️ Call for #Presentations
The Sabin Center & @climate.columbia.edu invite submissions for the Attribution Science & Climate Law Conference, June 10–11, 2026 at Columbia Law School in NYC. Learn more➡️
climate.law.columbia.edu/content/seco...

🌍 ⚖️ Full update on climate cases in the US and internationally, available ➡️ buff.ly/PnYc1ka

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

📰 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

⚖️A Dutch court ordered the Netherlands to protect a Caribbean island from #climatechange.

The Sabin Center’s Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre (@matigre.bsky.social) notes in an interview with @nytimes.com that “there’s a very clear state responsibility now” following the decision.

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📜 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

The State of Michigan just launched a novel lawsuit against the big oil companies and the American Petroleum Institute. It charges them with conspiracy to restrain trade under the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Michigan Antitrust Reform Act. It alleges a coordinated strategy to ...

⚖️🌏💻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. @matigre.bsky.social will deliver opening remarks.
Info ➡️ buff.ly/JkAYwvA
Register ➡️ buff.ly/CJ8sW10

🔎 ⭕ 🌱 Visit our #ClimateBacktracker ➡️ climate.law.columbia.edu/content/clim...

🚫 🔋💨☀️ 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.

📈 Key trends:
🏛️Agencies DOE, EPA, Interior, and Transportation have been among the most active in dismantling climate rules.
✍️ Executive orders have been used to push deregulation faster and with fewer procedural safeguards.

📚⚖️ One year into Trump 2.0, federal climate deregulation has intensified. The Sabin Center’s #ClimateBacktracker documents 300+ federal actions undermining #climateaction across agencies.
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#ClimateLaw #ClimateBacktracker

📚📰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

🏙️🌟Check out the new Cities Climate Law Initiative's web-page and find out about the resources and reports the team has been working diligently on, to further cities-led #climateaction! climate.law.columbia.edu/content/citi...

The Energy Wars Come to Louisiana: Carbon Capture, Removal, and Storage Projects Face New Hurdles in the Pelican State - Climate Law Blog Until recently, Louisiana was the darling of the carbon capture, removal, and storage industry. Due to its history of oil and gas production, the state has a fairly extensive carbon dioxide pipeline n...

Local opposition to carbon capture, removal, & storage in Louisiana is driving new restrictions on development. It looks a lot like what's happened to renewable energy. What can that sector's experience tell us about what might be in store for carbon capture, removal, & storage? tinyurl.com/3djrpkup

This week, we launched an updated & improved version of the Silencing Science Tracker, a database we launched with @sabincenter.bsky.social in response to Trump 1.0's attacks on science. With Trump 2.0 waging an all-out assault on science, this tool is more critical than ever. silencingscience.org

New Sabin Center Report and Online Resource: Navigating State Law in Local Climate Action - Climate Law Blog Navigating State Law in Local Climate Action is a new Sabin Center report on state-local preemption issues in nineteen states.

NEW RESOURCE: Today, the @sabincenter.bsky.social published a new report and online resource:

✨Navigating State Law in Local Climate Action✨ and accompanying online State Toolkits

Click through for resources on key state-local preemption issues in 19 states. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

📑The report is available for download here: scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climat...

🏙️📉 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law 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

One year ago today, Trump's second inauguration day, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law launched our Climate Backtracker to track his actions in moving backwards on climate action. As of today it has exactly 300 items. That's 1.15 for every working day.
climate.law.columbia.edu/content/clim...

Actions Archive - Silencing Science Tracker The Silencing Science Tracker tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election.

In no sane world should. it be necessary to revive the "silencing Science Tracker." But here we are, and I'm grateful that the @sabincenter.bsky.social and @csldf.org are doing this important work. silencingscience.org

This is a joint project with @csldf.org & our partners at @sabincenter.bsky.social, with whom we originally launched the Tracker in response to the first Trump administration. 8 years later, this database is even more critical as the second Trump administration continues its war on science.

💡Some of the upgraded features of the #SilencingScience Tracker include:
🏷️Enhanced tagging
📊A more intuitive user experience for filtering, sorting & analyzing results
🔎Improved search functionality
🎯Highlighting instances that have forced the administration to change course

🚀🎯Today, we & @csldf.org relaunch the #SilencingScience Tracker, a tool that tracks attacks on science. 8 years, 3 administrations, 700+ entries later, we bring you a new & improved platform: silencingscience.org
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8 years, 3 administrations, & 700+ entries later, we are excited to announce our revamped Silencing Science Tracker! This tool provides a way to document, challenge, & stop government attacks on science - & to hold those responsible accountable. silencingscience.org