Building Efficiency
New York City is addressing its climate impact by mandating that large buildings sharply reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In a new cooperative federalism, the Inflation Reduction Act can mesh
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Katrina Wyman
Global Sustainable Cities: City Governments and Our Environmental Future
Over half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial
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Integrating Food into Local Climate Policy
In the United States, governmental efforts to limit climate change have largely focused on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation and electricity, the top two sources of GHG emissions
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Propertizing Environmental Attributes
Tangible environmental resources such as land and water have been the object of property rights and traded in markets for millennia. In a development largely unnoticed by legal scholars, technology
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From Why to How Subnational Jurisdictions are Mitigating Climate Change
Katrina Wyman responds to a new article by Daniel A. Farber, Yuichiro Tsuji, and Shiyuan Jing, Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Lessons from the U.S., Japan, and China.
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Ownership of Environmental Attributes in the Energy World
Since commercial drilling for oil and gas began in the United States in the nineteenth century, the idea that the first party to capture oil and gas owns them has
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