New Energy Infrastructure and the Green Transition
America’s energy infrastructure needs investment to maintain its effectiveness and meet new market needs. Any transition to a greener electricity sector will require construction of an enormous amount of new renewable generation and the transmission lines necessary to get that power to market. Siting energy infrastructure has become increasingly difficult; the social, political and regulatory barriers to entry are high in many places. These conversations discuss scholarship that address those issues.
Conversations
The Difficulty of Siting Pipelines and Transmission Lines
James Coleman
Associate Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
Network Infrastructure: Permitting and Eminent Domain
Alexandra Klass
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
The Politics of Siting New Energy Infrastructure
David Spence
Baker Botts Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law, Professor of Business, Government & Society, McCombs School of Business
Intensive Energy Development (Oil & Gas, Wind & Solar) in West Texas
Melinda Taylor
Senior Lecturer, University of Texas School of Law
The Best Route to Net Zero Emissions
Jesse Jenkins
Environmental Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Fossil Fuels and the Risk Profile of Fracking
Daniel Raimi
Research Associate, Resources for the Future
Deep Decarbonization -- Legal Impediments to Massive Renewables Build-Out
Michael Gerrard
Andrew Sabin Professor of Practice & Director, Sabin Center on Climate Change, Columbia Law School
July, 2019
Social License and Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Kristen van de Biezenbos
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Law and Haskayne School of Business
July, 2019
Private Energy -- Private Law & the Green Transition
Yael Lifshitz
Lecturer in Law, Kings College London
August 7, 2019
Energy Exactions
Jim Rossi & Christopher Serkin
Lansden Chair (Rossi) and Ridley Chair (Serkin) in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
August 29, 2019
Regulating Fracking's Risks to Water
Caroline Cecot
Assistant Professor, Scalia Law School, George Mason University
October 14, 2019
Balancing the Local Costs with the Wider Benefits of Energy Development
Hannah Wiseman
Attorneys Title Professor of Law, Florida State College of Law
October 30, 2019
Public Attitudes on Energy & Climate
David Konisky
Professor, O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
February 7, 2020
The Green New Deal Meets Old Green Laws
J.B. Ruhl
David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
February 19, 2020
Energy Infrastructure & Indigenous Communities
Guillermo Garcia Sanchez
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law
April, 2020
Cost Reductions vs. Value Loss in the Renewables Build-Out
Eric Hittinger
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology
May 13, 2020
Social Acceptance and Negative Emissions Technologies
Holly J. Buck
Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA and Assistant Professor of Environment & Sustainability, University of Buffalo
May 20, 2020
Siting Wind Turbines
K.K. DuVivier
Professor, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
May 26, 2020
A 'Just 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)
June 5, 2020