Michael Gerrard
LightNews LightNews
michaelgerrard.bsky.social
Michael Gerrard
@michaelgerrard.bsky.social
1.1K followers 780 following 65 posts

Professor of environmental and energy law, Columbia Law School. Founder and faculty director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Practiced environmental law in NYC full-time, 1979-2008.

Videos

Michael Burr Gerrard is an American legal scholar. He is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School.

Source: Wikipedia
Environmental science 26%
Law 23%
Posts Replies Media Videos

michaelgerrard.bsky.social
Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · 8h
December issue of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law's litigation newsletter: bit.ly/4iK4eJ4. 11 new court decisions from the U.S.; 18 new lawsuits and filings in the U.S.; numerous cases in Brazil and Australia; and cases in Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, UK, European Court of Human Rights.
⚖️🌏Sabin Center Climate Litigation Newsletter (December 9, 2025)
bit.ly

Reposted by Michael Gerrard, Richard S.J. Tol, Alistair Munro

brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d
"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu

michaelgerrard.bsky.social
Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · 1d
Good news in court: U.S. District Court in Massachusetts rules that Trump's order issued on Inauguration Day blocking new offshore wind projects is arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law, and vacates it. bit.ly/48tCcy0
Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion for Summary Judgment – #234 in State of New York v. Trump (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-11221) – CourtListener.co...
District Judge Patti B. Saris: MEMORANDUM and ORDER entered. Plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment (Dkts. 172, 175 ) are ALLOWED and the Agency Defendants' motion for summary judgment (Dkt. 179 ) i...
bit.ly

Reposted by Michael Gerrard, Joseph Schafer, Bessma Momani , and 1 more

janrosenow.bsky.social
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d
EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.

We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.

michaelgerrard.bsky.social
Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · 9d
It's very important that prospective home buyers and tenants have information about the climate risks of where they are considering moving. It's a real setback to climate adaptation that this information is being removed from Zillow. FEMA flood maps cannot be relied upon. bit.ly/4op4Vsw
sammyroth.bsky.social Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 9d
Zillow bowed to pressure from real estate agents and removed climate risk scores from home listings: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

sammyroth.bsky.social
Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 9d
Zillow bowed to pressure from real estate agents and removed climate risk scores from home listings: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

sabincenter.bsky.social
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 14d
‼️ 📆 On May 21-22, 2026, we will host our 14th Annual Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship, which will allow junior environmental law scholars to present early-stage work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior scholars. More info ➡️ buff.ly/xubshqy

michaelgerrard.bsky.social
Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · 17d
This new study shows the risk that flooding worsened by climate change poses to toxic sites. As I wrote in 2023, the U.S. regulatory system is ill prepared to deal with this threat, but there are ways the laws can be changed to address it. bit.ly/4igwWRG

michaelgerrard.bsky.social
Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · 19d
As I describe in detail in my new article in the New York Law Journal, the Trump administration has taken an all-of-government approach to squelching wind and solar.
sabincenter.bsky.social Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 20d
📰 Trump's Multi-Prolonged Attack on Renewable Energy, by Michael Gerrard (@@michaelgerrard.bsky.social): scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

sabincenter.bsky.social
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 20d
📰 Trump's Multi-Prolonged Attack on Renewable Energy, by Michael Gerrard (@@michaelgerrard.bsky.social): scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...

michaelgerrard.bsky.social
Michael Gerrard @michaelgerrard.bsky.social · Oct 24
Climate victory: NY court rules that State Dept. of Env. Conservation must issue its GHG cap-and-invest rules, as required by NY Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act, by Feb. 6. DEC was ready to issue the rules but Gov. Hochul stopped them. Next question: Will they appeal?
bit.ly/47hY8M9
bit.ly

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

sabincenter.bsky.social
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Oct 17
🔥🌆Combating the “urban heat island” island effect! 🌳Daniel J. Metzger explores how local organizations can transform paved surfaces—“combining the resources and desire to create green spaces that nongovernmental groups offer with cities’ large portfolios of property.”
📰 ➡️ buff.ly/koaeFiE

Reposted by Michael Gerrard, Markus W. Gehring

sabincenter.bsky.social
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Oct 6
💻⚖️🌏 Register for @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social's #webinar on October 8 to join experts from the Sabin Center,
@granthamicl.bsky.social and @biicl.bsky.social as they review global climate litigation. The presentation will demonstrate the new Climate Litigation Database: buff.ly/l86RRwy

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

rahmstorf.bsky.social
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Sep 30
The US became the world’s leading nation due to its science and technology, and it has now decided for a path of self-mutilation and handing world leadership over to 🇨🇳.
Why? 🙄
thebulletin.org Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Sep 30
As part of the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump admin proposed cancelling over 40 missions.

Agency employees have already been instructed to do the prep work for ending these programs, according to a NASA scientist.

More from @jessimckenzi.bsky.social. ⬇️
NASA missions at risk under the Trump administration
Some satellites slated for decommissioning are in the prime of life, and turning them off would be enormously wasteful, in addition to severely limiting scientists' ability to understand the planet.
thebulletin.org

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

sabincenter.bsky.social
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Sep 26
⭐⭐⭐We have a special edition of the Climate Litigation Newsletter in honor of the Climate Litigation Database 2.0 Relaunch in partnership with @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social. Huge thank you to everyone who attended the launch event yesterday!
View the newsletter here: mailchi.mp/law/sabin-ce...

Reposted by Michael Gerrard

sabincenter.bsky.social
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Sep 24
📗🌏⚖️Catch up on your reading on #climatelitigation by checking out the new #blog posts under the Climate Reparations Blog Series: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang... #humanrights #climatechange #internationallaw