Associate Professor, University of Wyoming College of Law Tara K. Righetti Interviewer: James Coleman Interview date: May 23, 2020 Keywords: Conservation Agencies, Well Placement, Directional Drilling “Well placement is one of those critical environmental issues. ......
Cost Reductions vs. Value Loss in the Renewables Build-Out (Eric Hittinger, Rochester Institute of Technology)
Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Eric Hittinger Interviewer: David Spence, Interview Date: May 13, 2020 Keywords: Electricity Markets “There's these two effects: one says that as you build more wind and solar they get cheaper; one says...
Magic Numbers in the Climate Debate (Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Center & Professor of Pubic Policy at Texas Tech University)
Professor of Public Policy & Public Law, Texas Tech University Katharine Hayhoe Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: May 6, 2020 Keywords: Two Degrees Celsius “Virtually every week I have someone come up to me and say we have -- originally 12, then 10, then...
Climate Change & the Ethical Obligations of Business (Eric Orts, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Guardsmark Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, Professor of Management, and Director of the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Eric Orts Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: February 13, 2020...
Tort Law & Climate Litigation (Douglas Kysar, Yale Law School)
Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Yale University Douglas Kysar Interviewers: Sharon Jacobs Interview date: December, 2019 Keywords: Tort Law, Our Children's Trust“All of us are at the same time both causes and victims of climate change. So...
Climate Litigation & the Green Transition (Michael Burger, Sabin Center for Climate Law and Policy)
Executive Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School Michael Burger Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: September 26, 2019 Key Terms: Carbon Majors Project Public Nuisance New York v. Exxon...
PG&E Wildfire Liability and Bankruptcy (Michael Wara, Woods Institute for the Environment and Stanford Law School)
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment & Fellow, Stanford Law School Michael Wara Interviewer: David Spence Interview date: October 3, 2019 Keywords: Bankruptcy, Disaster Response, Microgrid, Reliability, Safety, Transmission...
How Law Must Change in the Anthropocene (Eric Biber, University of California at Berkeley School of Law)
Edward C. Halbach Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law Eric Biber Interviewer: David Spence Interview date: October 4, 2019 Keywords: Anthropocene “Human impacts on a global scale are causing the kinds of changes ... that are...
Private Energy: Private Law and Green Transition (Yael Lifshitz, Kings College London School of Law)
Lecturer in Law, Kings College London Yael Lifshitz Interviewer: James Coleman Interview date:August 7, 2019 Keywords: Distributed Energy “When you think about the transition [toward] distributed energy, if you understand private law as a category that governs...
Regional Differences in RTO Governance and Decision-making (Elizabeth Wilson, Irving Center for Energy and Society, Dartmouth University)
Director, Arthur L. Irving Institute for Environment & Society, Professor of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth University Elizabeth Wilson Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: May 16, 2019 Key Terms: RTO/ISO, pumped storage, energy imbalance...
‘Public’ Utility: Steering Markets Toward Public Ends (William Boyd, UCLA School of Law and Institute of Environment & Sustainability)
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law, & Professor, UCLA Institute of Environment & Sustainability William Boyd Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: April 18, 2019 Key Terms: Public Utility, Rates, Restructuring, Market-based Pricing “Markets are...
“Naïve Energy Markets” and the Boundary Between Markets and Regulation (David Spence, University of Texas School of Law and McCombs School of Business)
Baker Botts Chair in law, university of texas school of law Professor of business, government & society, mccombs school of business David Spence Interviewers: Sharon Jacobs & Shelley Welton, Interview date: 11/7/18 Key Terms: Cost of Service Ratemaking,...
Cost-Benefit Analysis, “Secret Science,” and OIRA Reviews of Rulemaking (Sheila Olmstead, University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs, President’s Council of Economic Advisors)
Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin President’s Council of Economic Advisors, 2016-17 Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center Sheila Olmstead Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: 11/7/18 Key Terms:...
Environmental Privileging (Sharon Jacobs, University of Colorado Law School and Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources)
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School Board of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources Sharon Jacobs Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: 11/12/18 Key Terms: NEPA “Privileging certain values and goals is not a...