When
October 21, 2025 3:00 pm — 3:30 pm
Where
Webinar Only
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In an effort to make our experts' information widely accessible, the Environmental Law Institute is now offering our Monthly Climate Change Briefings to the public without any fees.
This event is free and open to the public.
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All times noted are Eastern Time. The briefing begins at 3:00 PM Eastern Time, 2:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Mountain, 12:00 Noon Pacific.
An ELI Public Briefing
In an effort to make our experts' information widely accessible, the Environmental Law Institute is now offering our Monthly Climate Change Briefings to the public without any fees.
Staying on top of the legal and policy developments in the climate change arena is no small task. As a special service to the public, the Environmental Law Institute provides a series of monthly webinars with national experts on climate law and policy to keep you up to date with short presentations about various sectors, along with time at the end for discussion between the panelists and to answer audience questions.
Topics to be addressed in this month's briefing:
- Climate speeches at UN General Assembly
- NAS report on scientific basis for endangerment finding
- Cuts in clean energy grants related to the shutdown
- Lighthiser v. Trump -- dismissing youth plaintiffs' effort to annual President Trump's energy orders
- Sierra Club v. FERC -- Upholding FERC's NEPA review of natural gas pipeline to feed power plant
- Sierra Club v. Louisiana Department of Energy & Natural Resources -- State court vacates state permit for LNG terminal for failure to consider climate impacts
- City of New York v. ExxonMobil -- awarding attorneys fees to City because defendants unreasonably sought to remove case to federal court
- Louisiana v. Biden -- Invalidating President Biden's withdrawal of certain offshore areas from oil and gas leasing
- Comite Dialogo Ambiental v. FEMA -- Finding FEMA should have prepared EIS for restoration of utilities damaged by hurricanes
- Municipality of San Juan v. Exxon Mobil -- Dismissing suit against fossil fuel companies over misleading climate-related information
- Spence v. American Airlines -- Ordering pension fund not to consider ESG factors
Speakers:
Daniel Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Gerrard, Founder and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates
Materials:
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