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<div>=sabin ctr? colimbia lawSabin Center for Climate Change Law=<a href="https://climate.law.columbia.edu/">https://climate.law.columbia.edu/</a>The no lnx Sabin Center develops legal techniques to fight climate change, trains students and lawyers in their use, and provides up-to-date resources on key topics in climate change law and regulation.
Join our mailing listsLatest newsNew Sabin Center White Paper Assesses the New York State Executive Branch's Authority to Enact a Moratorium on the Permitting of Consolidated Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining Facilities, by Jacob Elkin, March 21, 2022
Renewable Energy Projects Face Opposition in 49 States, Local Restrictions in 31 States, by Jacob Elkin, March 15, 2022
Recent PublicationsRegulation of Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals in New York, by Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal, March 9, 2022 
Evaluating Climate Risk in NEPA Reviews: Current Practices and Recommendations for Reform, by Romany Webb, Michael Panfil, Stephanie H. Jones, and Dena Adler, February 15, 2022
Biden's climate promises require oil and gas leasing reform, op-ed by Romany Webb, The Hill, February 3, 2022
Politics v. science: How President Trump's war on science impacted public health and environmental regulation, by Romany Webb and Lauren Kurtz, ScienceDirect, January 27, 2022
The Biden administration's first year: Slow and steady does not win this race, op-ed by Lauren Kurtz and Romany Webb, The Hill, January 20, 2022
News and EventsEvents: Argentina's Hydrocarbon Border Expansion: The rise of climate litigation against offshore fossil fuel exploitation, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Register here. 
Compensation for a Just Energy Transition to a Zero-Carbon World: Practices and Principles in International (Investment) Law and Domestic Law, April 14, 2022. Register here. 
Sabin Center-UNEP Annual Conference on Global Climate Litigation, April 19-20, 2022. Register here. 
News: Paper looks at NY state authority on climate rules, Observer-Review, March 29, 2022
Columbia Law School Pushes Governor to Pause Permits for Cryptomining, Finger Lakes Daily News, March 21, 2022
Climate Law BlogGuest Post: Brazil Will Have First Climate Litigation Trials in the Supreme Court, by Isabela Soares Bicalho, Gabriel Mantelli, Maria Antonia Tigre and Carmem Añon Brasolin, March 28, 2022
Key Elements of the SEC's Proposed Climate-Related Disclosure Rule, by Romany Webb, March 23, 2022
Australian Federal Court Dismisses the Novel Duty of Care Previously Found in Sharma, by Maria Antonia Tigre, March 21, 2022<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div>
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</div><div>Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our <a href="http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S</a>. and <a href="http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">non-U.S.</a> climate litigation charts.  If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE <a href="https://columbia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9906c7202590aac6a8bdbb7b9&id=976dc8ca52&e=c70ad85e80" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="padding: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">CLIMATE CASE CHART</a> SINCE UPDATE # 115.FEATURED CASESupreme Court Denied Stay of Young People’s Constitutional Climate Case, Saying Federal Government Could Ask Ninth Circuit to Stop Case</div><div> http://grist.org/climate-energy/getting-warmer-more-republicans-are-starting-to-take-climate-change-seriously/<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) is angling to turn herself into a Republican leader on climate change — at least in part to fight a 2016 reelection challenge from a <a href="http://maggiefornh.tumblr.com/post/131747132191/release-governor-maggie-hassan-continues-to-be-a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">climate-hawk Democrat</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">On Sunday, Ayotte became the first GOP senator to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/26/3715954/ayotte-gop-support-clean-power-plan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">express support</a> for President Obama’s <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/obamas-big-climate-plan-is-now-final-and-its-even-stronger-than-expected/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Clean Power Plan</a>, which will rein in CO2 emissions from electric utilities. On Wednesday, she released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsLHXrieQCQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">an ad</a> touting that position and her other efforts to protect the environment. And on Thursday, she <a href="https://www.ayotte.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2286" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">announced</a> the formation of a new Senate Energy and Environment Working Group, which a spokesperson said will “talk about ways to build support for protecting the environment and climate and promoting cleaner energy production while also helping the economy.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The new working group will include three other Republican senators who’ve acknowledged that climate change is a real problem: Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), and Mark Kirk (Ill.). Kirk, like Ayotte, is facing a tough reelection race in a moderate state. He appeared to <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/228963-sen-kirk-walks-back-on-climate-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">waffle</a> on climate science earlier this year, but has apparently settled on <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-mark-kirk-climate-change-met-20150108-story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">saying</a> it’s a real, human-caused problem and <a href="https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=234806&c=quorum_kirk-iq" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">trying</a> to do something about it.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Politico’s Andrew Restuccia <a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-energy/2015/10/pro-morning-energy-wolff-210991" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">writes</a>, “The establishment of the working group shows the shifting political dynamics at play over environmental policy, with some in the GOP worried that Republicans’ skepticism of mainstream climate science and opposition to air and water regulations isn’t sustainable in the long-term.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">We see a similar dynamic at play in the House, where Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) is rounding up a handful of Republicans who want to shift the party’s approach on climate change (and inoculate themselves against election-season charges of obstructing climate action). Last month, as <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/4-reasons-why-it-matters-that-a-few-house-republicans-are-calling-for-climate-action/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">noted</a> by Grist’s Ben Adler, Gibson and 10 other House Republicans <a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060024836" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">introduced</a> a <a href="http://gibson.house.gov/uploadedfiles/environmental_stewardship_resolution.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">resolution</a> affirming their acceptance of climate science and their support for (as-yet-undefined) action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">And these more climate-friendly congressional Republicans have some big-money backers. Jay Faison, a wealthy North Carolina businessman, has donated to Graham and other GOP candidates, and he plans to spend <a href="http://grist.org/news/this-republican-plans-to-spend-175-million-trying-to-get-his-party-to-care-about-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">$175 million</a> to push the GOP to address climate change. Andy Sabin is another wealthy businessman supporting Republicans who want to cut carbon emissions. In <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/meet-the-republican-magnate-whos-funding-a-push-for-climate-action/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">an interview</a> with Grist earlier this month, Sabin named Ayotte, Kirk, Graham, and Gibson as Republicans he’s excited about.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some of those same names cropped up last week at the Conservative Clean Energy Summit in Washington, D.C., a first-of-its-kind gathering of Republicans pushing for “energy reform.” Amanda Little, who’s been interviewing conservative climate leaders for a <a href="http://grist.org/series/conservatives-and-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">Grist special series</a>, attended the conference and reported on it for The New Yorker. From <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/will-conservatives-finally-embrace-clean-energy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">her piece</a>:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0.5625rem 1.25rem 0px 1.1875rem; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem;">The summit was organized and hosted by <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/from-the-christian-coalition-to-climate-change-one-conservative-activists-story/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Michele Combs</a>, who heads up the group Young Conservatives for Energy Reform (Y.C.E.R.), and her mother, Roberta Combs, the president and C.E.O. of the Christian Coalition of America. … “Clean energy is not a Democrat issue, it’s a family issue,” [Michele] told me. … The summit was part of an ongoing effort to move the issues of climate change and clean energy from the margins of the Republican Party to its mainstream. Although the Combses scarcely spoke at the event, they chose others to make their case — the executive of a solar-power company, a three-star and a four-star general, two congressman, and six U.S. senators. …The long-term goal of Y.C.E.R., Michele Combs told me, is to help get “a comprehensive energy-reform bill” passed in the Senate soon after the next administration takes office — a bill that could also, in effect, break the congressional climate-legislation stalemate. … “We’re building grassroots to provide cover — to keep senators politically safe when they support energy reform,” Combs said. “First, we’re establishing common ground and a new terminology. Terms like ‘energy reform’ will bring a lot more conservatives to the table than ‘climate change.’”</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No matter what they call it, changing most Republican politicians’ hearts and minds will be a tough slog. The <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate-denier-caucus-114th-congress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">majority</a> of GOP members of Congress still don’t accept the well-established science of climate change, and even those who do are more likely to criticize Democrats’ proposed solutions than to propose their own.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">It’s a good sign that Ayotte feels she needs to support climate protections if she wants to be reelected. We might see more of that from her GOP colleagues in the Senate, all of whom need to be elected by statewide constituencies. But in the House, Gibson and his fellow resolution signers are anomalies — they’re in moderate districts, while most of their Republican colleagues are in dark-red districts and risk being <a href="http://grist.org/article/hey-look-a-republican-who-cares-about-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">primaried out of office</a> if they call for cutting CO2 emissions.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If Combs and her allies could change that dynamic, it would be huge. It’s highly unlikely to happen anytime soon, but you won’t find anyone better positioned to lead the charge. As Little wrote in the intro to a Grist <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/from-the-christian-coalition-to-climate-change-one-conservative-activists-story/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">interview with Combs</a>, she’s “possibly the most impassioned and unexpected messenger on clean energy and climate change the GOP has ever seen.” And with a mom who’s president of the Christian Coalition, she’s certainly got conservative cred.<h2>=</h2></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="practice_focus" class="copy_link_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16px;">Michael Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. Until late 2008, he headed the New York office of Arnold & Porter LLP, and he is currently Senior Counsel to the firm. He has practiced environmental law in New York since 1979. He has tried numerous cases and argued many appeals in federal and state courts and administrative tribunals, and handled the environmental aspects of many transactions and development projects. He has chaired the American Bar Association's 10,000-member Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources; the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar, and the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Environment Lawyers, based on 4,000 questionnaires, reported that Mr. Gerrard "received more personal nominations for this guide than any other lawyer in the world." He has also been rated by Chambers USA and Who's Who Legal as the leading environmental lawyer in New York. Mr. Gerrard has written or edited eleven books, two of which were named Best Law Book of the Year by the Association of American Publishers: the twelve-volume Environmental Law Practice Guide (Matthew Bender 1992) and the four-volume Brownfields Law and Practice (Matthew Bender 1998). His most recent books are <a href="http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore/index.cfm?pid=5350233&section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 88, 152); outline: 0px;">The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change: U.S. and International Aspects</a> (ABA 2012), Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (ABA 2014. 2d ed., co-edited with Jody Freeman), The Law of Green Buildings (ABA 2010), and The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables (ABA 2011). Since 1986 he has written an environmental law column for the New York Law Journal, and since 1989 he has edited a monthly newsletter, Environmental Law in New York. He has lectured on environmental law in Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Canada, China, Taiwan, India, Japan, the Marshall Islands, and Chile, as well as throughout the United States.<div>
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</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An extremely wealthy Republican donor thinks he can get would-be 2016 presidential contender Jeb Bush to see the light on climate change, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/02/26/wealthy-jeb-bush-supporter-aims-to-push-him-to-combat-climate-change/" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reports the Wall Street Journal</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Andrew Sabin, owner of the precious metals company Sabin Metal Corporation, is a big supporter of Republican causes and candidates. He's made big donations to Karl Rove's conservative political action committee American Crossroads, the Republican National Committee and to individual candidates like Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), <a href="http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/andrew-sabin.asp?cycle=14" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">just to name a few</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He's also given <a href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/8/22/the-republican-metals-magnate-fighting-climate-change-throug.html" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$5 million to support the Center for Climate Change Law</a> at Columbia Law School. And through his foundation, the Sabin Family Foundation, he's also been a big donor to Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, Oceana and Earth Justice.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jeb Bush is billed as a moderate on some issues, but has said <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/jeb-bush-climate-change-skeptic" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he's "a skeptic" on climate change</a>. Sabin says he thinks he can change that.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I want him to be the next Teddy Roosevelt," Sabin told the Wall Street Journal. “We want to show that conservation is conservative and get Republicans back to their environmental roots without hurting jobs.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sabin also said he thinks there's precedent. “Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon were supporters of the environment,” he said. “With a lot of Republicans, they just need to be educated.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sabin was also a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/fashion/the-republicans-3-million-weekend-in-the-hamptons.html" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">big booster of Mitt Romney in 2012</a>. But while Romney <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/mitt-romney-gina-mccarthy-climate-change" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">promoted action on climate change</a> as governor of Massachusetts, as a presidential candidate he<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/10/28/355736/romney-flips-to-denial-we-dont-know-whats-causing-climate-change/" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">said instead</a> that "we don't know what's causing climate change" and <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/08/climate-change-great-punchline-mitt" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">made the subject a punch line</a> in his campaign.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More recently, Romney has moved back toward the consensus view on climate change, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/22/mitt-romney-climate-change_n_6523530.html" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">saying at an event last month</a>, "I'm one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bush has been less committal. "I think global warming may be real," he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/24/jeb-bush-rick-perry-global-warming_n_935168.html" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">said in a 2011 interview</a>. "It is not unanimous among scientists that it is disproportionately manmade. What I get a little tired of on the left is this idea that somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view."</div><div></div></div><div><h2 class="title" style="margin: 13px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; line-height: 0.94em; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); border-color: rgb(154, 154, 154); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="journal-entry-navigation-current" href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/8/22/the-republican-metals-magnate-fighting-climate-change-throug.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.2em;">The Republican Metals Magnate Fighting Climate Change Through the Courts</a></h2><div class="journal-entry-tag journal-entry-tag-post-title" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -7px; line-height: 25.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/author/tatewilliams" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(3, 93, 182);"><img title="Author" alt="Author" class="inline-icon user-registered-icon" rel="dark" src="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/universal/images/transparent.png" style="border: 0px none; height: 16px; width: 16px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); opacity: 1; margin-right: 6px; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -5px; background: url(http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/universal/images/core-resources/icons/dark/user-registered.png) 0% 0% no-repeat transparent;" />Tate Williams</a></div><div class="body" style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Go ahead and read that a second time if you want. Andrew Sabin is a Republican donor, owner of a precious metals refiner, and he just gave $3.5 million to support legal strategies to fight climate change. Sabin’s grant to Columbia Law School will expand upon the school’s <a href="http://web.law.columbia.edu/climate-change" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(3, 93, 182);">Center for Climate Change Law</a>, which he first helped launch with a $1.5 million gift in 2009, to develop legal techniques to fight developers over environmental issues and otherwise combat climate change. The Center is headed by Michael B. Gerrard, who once served as the family business Sabin Metal Corp.’s environmental attorney. If you’re skeptical of a climate change grant from a guy who also cuts six-figure <a href="http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/andrew-sabin.asp?cycle=12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(3, 93, 182);">checks</a> to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads PAC, open your mind, brother. He told the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/training-lawyers-to-save-the-planet-1408069916" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(3, 93, 182);">Wall Street Journal</a> that he’s trying to educate his party about the importance of the environment and climate change, saying that “at the end of the day, there's no question that science proves there's climate change." His Sabin Family Foundation has also given to Conservation International, Earthjustice (another legal environmental group), The Nature Conservancy and Oceana. The guy’s a conservationist, don’t pigeonhole him. But given that the family’s foundation gave $2.9 million total in 2013, the gift to Columbia is by far his biggest environmental grant. And it takes a pretty interesting approach to fighting climate change by doing legal research and training attorneys how to fight polluters within the bounds of existing law. “Congress has not enacted a major new environmental law since 1990 and that is not likely to change any time soon,” Gerrard said in a <a href="http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/columbia-law-school-receives-3.5-million-for-climate-change-center" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(3, 93, 182);">statement</a> about the gift. “Thus our mission is especially vital—developing new legal tools within the existing statutory framework to tackle this extraordinarily important problem.”Since its founding, the center has worked closely with Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and has released a report rating states’ climate change preparedness, offering legal tools for cities to stop development in areas that might be threatened by rising shorelines.It also works to help control greenhouse gas emissions and pay particular attention to how well regulations are being followed, where the press and public might not follow.</div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>