Books
Alan’s most recent work is a book with Durwood Zaelke and Stephen O. Andersen, Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now!, published by Changemakers Books.
The authors describe the urgent need to reduce several climate pollutants including methane and HFCs (widely used as refrigerants) with short atmospheric lifetimes (unlike carbon dioxide). Slowing the rate of warming is critical to avoid feed backs and tipping points, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes in climate. Because of their short atmospheric lifetimes, these super pollutants can be reduced much more quickly — a “climate sprint” — to complement the more widely understood “marathon”, the more gradual reduction in CO2 emissions from burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. This marathon will require several decades to slow the rate of warming as reducing CO2 will also cut sulfates, pollutants which fall out of the atmosphere relatively quickly but offset some warming. The authors outline the actions needed and describe how this can be accomplished with the necessary speed based on lessons from the successful Montreal Protocol, the international agreement to protect the ozone layer.
“What should the Biden Administration’s first steps be to give the climate emergency the attention it deserves? A timely new book by three top climate experts, Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now!, lays out an absolutely essential part of initial climate action in the United States and other countries. They target a set of greenhouse gases that have two qualities: a huge potential for warming the earth and a short life in the atmosphere. Curbing emissions of these gases leads to an early slowing of the warming, a big payoff. Climate policymakers need to read this book, now.”
James Gustave Speth, former chair, US Council on Environmental Quality
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Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (9th Edition; Aspen Publishing, 2021)
Robert V. Percival, Christopher H. Schroeder, Alan S. Miller, James P. Leape
ISBN: 9781543826166
- The most
comprehensive updating and editing of this classic casebook since the
first edition helped define the field nearly thirty years ago,
including:
- Biden administration reversals of Trump changes to federal environmental policy
- How efforts to combat the climate crisis are affecting all areas of environmental law
- New material on environmental justice throughout the casebook
- The impact of the global pandemic on environmental law and policy
- New material on the social cost of carbon, PFAS and chemical testing, the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, environmental enforcement, and private environmental governance
- Excerpts from important new court decisions including:
- County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (groundwater and the Clean Water Act)
- ARCO v. Christian (the impact of CERCLA on state remedies for environmental contamination)
- Weyerhaeuser v. US Fish & Wildlife Service (critical habitat for endangered species)
- American Lung Ass’n v. EPA (DC Circuit’s 2021 decision invalidating the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy regulations for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act)
- Juliana v. US (9th Circuit decision dismissing claims that the federal government violated constitutional environmental rights by promoting fossil fuels)
- McKiver v. Murphy-Brown (4th Circuit decision on private nuisance, CAFOS and environmental justice)
- Jam v. International Finance Corporation (immunity of international development bank for financing coal-fired power plant in India)
- New and improved problem exercises
Fluorocarbon Regulation: An International Comparison (1980, Lexington Books)
Alan S. Miller, Thomas Stoel and Breck Milroy
ISBN-10:
0669033936
ISBN-13:
978-0669033939
BOOK CHAPTERS
Business and Financial Implications of Climate Change – A Growing Reality, chapter in Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications, forthcoming from World Scientific (2022)
Climate Information for Climate Change Adaptation, with Johannes Hoedjes and Jeremy Usher, in Private-Sector Action in Adaptation: Perspectives on the Role of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (published by UNEP DTU, April 2018)
International Trade and Development, in Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, M. Gerrard, ed. (2007, publication of the American Bar Association)
Financing Clean Energy for Development, in The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development, R. Ottinger, ed. (2005, Cambridge U. Press)
Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development, in Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment, M. Harriss, ed. (2002, University Press)
Legal, Environmental, and Labor Issues Arising from the Use of Solar Heating Technologies, in Implementation of Solar Thermal Technology, Ronal Larson and Ronald West, eds., (1996, MIT Press)