All Conversations
A Just Energy Transition in Both the Old and New Energy Sectors (Joshua Busby, University of Texas; Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines; Dustin Mulvaney, San Jose State University)
Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas Joshua Busby Director Payne Institute and Professor of Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines Morgan Bazilian Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, San Jose State...
Siting Wind Turbines (K.K. DuVivier, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver)
Professor, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver K.K. DuVivier Interviewer: Sharon Jacobs, Interview date: May 23, 2020 Keywords: Wake Effect, Legal Regimes, Terrestrial Wind “Despite the federal government's efforts to promote wind energy, only about 5 percent...
Oil & Gas Commissions as ‘Incidental’ Environmental Agencies (Tara Righetti, University of Wyoming College of Law)
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. ......
Social Acceptance & Negative Emissions Technologies (Holly J. Buck, UCLA and University of Buffalo)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Environment & Sustainability, UCLA / Assistant Professor of Environment & Sustainability, University of Buffalo Holly J. Buck Interviewers: David Spence Interview date: May 20, 2020 Keywords: Negative Emissions Technologies,...
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...
Energy Infrastructure & Indigenous Communities (Guillermo Garcia Sanchez, Texas A&M University School of Law)
Associate Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law Guillermo Garcia Sanchez Interviewer: James Coleman, Interview date: April 2020 Key Terms: Indigenous Land Rights “On the one hand we have a human rights regime that protects indigenous rights...
Restricting Energy Production & Flaring (James Coleman, SMU Dedman School of Law)
Associate professor of law, smu dedman school of law James Coleman Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: March 27, 2020 Keywords: Gas Flaring "The U.S. has moved from being an energy importer ... to being an energy exporter [with] an interest, at least...
Renewable Natural Gas & a Decarbonized Energy Future (Michael Webber, University of Texas and ENGIE)
Josey Centennial Professor of Energy Resources, University of Texas & Chief Science & Technology Officer, ENGIE Michael Webber Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: March 27, 2020 Keywords: Decarbonization, Energy Storage, Renewable Natural Gas,...
Green New Deal Meets Old Green Laws (J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University Law School)
David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School J.B. Ruhl Interviewer: Jim Rossi, Interview date: February 19, 2020 Keywords: Green New Deal, Environmental Law “Green energy isn’t necessarily environmentally neutral. It’s green in that...
Just Transitions (Annie Eisenberg, University of South Carolina School of Law)
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law Ann M. Eisenberg Interviewer: Shelley Welton, Interview date: February 14, 2020 Keywords: Just Transition “More and more people are waking up to the fact that the need for decarbonization is more urgent...
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...
Public Attitudes on Energy & Climate (David Konisky, O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University)
Professor, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University David Konisky Interviewers: Shelley Welton, Interview date: February, 2020 Keywords: Climate Public Opinion “’What we found is that there is a structure [to preferences], ......
Carbon Taxes: The Evolving Conventional Wisdom (Sheila Olmstead, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas)
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: January 23, 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...
Balancing the Local Costs and Wider Benefits of Energy Development (Hannah Wiseman, Florida State College of Law)
Attorneys Title Professor, Florida State University College of Law Hannah Wiseman Interviewers: David Spence Interview date: October 30, 2019 Keywords: Fracking “Many states have preempted local control [over energy permitting of oil and gas development]. When you...
Regulating the Risks of Fracking to Water (Caroline Cecot, George Mason University Scalia Law School)
Assistant Professor of Law, Scalia Law School, George Mason University Caroline Cecot Interviewer: James Coleman Interview date: October 14, 2019 Keywords: Fracking “It's easy to discredit local [anti-fracking] movements as totally speculative or fear-based ... This...
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...
How to Value Distributed Resources (Scott Burger, Form Energy and MIT Center for Environmental Policy Research)
Analytics Lead, Form Energy, & Research Affiliate/Lecturer MIT Center for Environmental Policy Research Scott Burger Interviewer: David Spence Interview date: October 2, 2019 Keywords: Distributed Energy “We simulated rooftop solar adoption across single...
Energy Exactions (Jim Rossi & Christopher Serkin, Vanderbilt University School of Law)
Judge D.L. Lansden Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School Jim Rossi Elisabeth H. & Granville S. Ridley Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School Christopher Serkin Interviewer: David Spence Date: August 29, 2019 Keywords: Marginal Cost ...
Keeping the Lights on in a High-Renewables Grid (Joshua Rhodes, Vibrant Clean Energy, and Colin Meehan, First Solar)
Senior Energy System Modeler and Analyst, Vibrant Clean Energy Joshua Rhodes Director of Regulatory Affairs, First Solar Colin Meehan Interviewer: David Spence, August 7, 2019 Keywords: ancillary services, frequency control, rotational inertia ...
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...
Deep Decarbonization: Legal Impediments to a Massive Renewables Build Out (Mike Gerrard, Sabin Center on Climate Change, Columbia Law School)
Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School Michael Gerrard Interviewer: Shelley Welton Interview Date: July, 2019 Keywords: NEPA “We are facing an existential environmental threat. One element of addressing that threat is a massive increase...
Social License and Fossil Fuels (Kristen van de Biezenbos, University of Calgary Faculty of Law and Haskayne School of Business)
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Law & Haskayne School of Business Kristen van de Biezenbos Interviewer: James ColemanInterview Date: July, 2019Keywords: Social License, NIMBY“The term 'social license' is used to mean so many things that it...
Energy Justice (Sanya Carley, Indiana University O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs)
Professor, O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Sanya Carley Interviewer: Sharon Jacobs, Interview date: June, 2019Keywords: Decarbonization“There are in fact some negative or adverse consequences associated with [the green energy...
Energy Realism (Monika Ehrman, University of Oklahoma School of Law)
Associate Professor of Law & Faculty Director, Oil & Gas, Natural Resources and Energy Center, University of Oklahoma College of Law Monika Ehrman Interviewers: James Coleman, Interview Date: June, 2019 Keywords: Keep It In The Ground, Energy Realism “I think...
Energy Poverty, Energy Burden and Rooftop Solar (Victoria Mandell, GRID Alternatives Colorado)
President, GRID Alternatives Colorado Victoria Mandell Interviewer: Sharon Jacobs, Interview date: June, 2019 “There is a strong impetus nationally to invest in solar for many good reasons.. But the policies haven't been designed to incorporate equity issues....
Modeling Decarbonization in the West (Arne Olson, E3)
Senior Partner, E3 Consulting Arne Olson Interviewer: David Spence, Interview Date: June 6, 2019 Keywords: Decarbonization, Resource Adequacy “In the Pacific Northwest ... the good news is that we can ... achieve 80% reductions below 1990 levels in something...