Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Vandenbergh, Michael P."
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Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Kentucky Law Journal, 1996)The turbulence of the environmental debate over the last decade suggests that the command and control system may not provide viable solutions to the remaining environmental problems. The incrementalism that has characterized ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Tibbetts, Courtney A.; Breggin, Linda K.; Holden, Elizabeth A. (Environmental Law Reporter, 2020)The purpose of this article is to highlight the results of the ELPAR article selection process and to report on the environmental legal scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year, including the number of environmental law ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 2003)Social norms scholarship faces the challenge of becoming a mature discipline. Norms theorists have proposed several elegant, widely applicable theories of the origin, evolution and function of norms. For the most part, ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Steinemann, Anne C. (New York University Law Review, 2007)Reducing the risk of catastrophic climate change will require leveling off greenhouse gas emissions over the short term and reducing emissions by an estimated sixty to eighty percent over the long term. To achieve these ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Ackerly, Brooke A. (Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2008)A substantial proportion of the United States population is at or below the poverty level, yet many of the greenhouse gas emissions reduction measures proposed or adopted to date will increase the costs of energy, motor ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Cohen, Mark A. (New York University Environmental Law Journal, 2010)This article provides a critical missing piece to the global climate change governance puzzle: how to create incentives for the major developing countries to reduce carbon emissions. The major developing countries are ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Southern California Law Review, 2008)The central problem confronting climate change scholars and policymakers is how to create incentives for China and the United States to make prompt, large emissions reductions. China recently surpassed the United States ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P. (The Regulatory Review, 2018-10-01)Achieving the green economy requires taking into account divisive politics and distributive justice.
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Gilligan, Jonathan M. (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2020)This Essay outlines a simple heuristic that will enable public and private policymakers to focus on the most important climate change mitigation strategies. Policymakers face a dizzying array of information, pressure from ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)A debate between advocates of command and control regulation and advocates of economic incentives has dominated environmental legal scholarship over the last three decades. Both sides in the debate implicitly embrace the ...
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Rossi, Jim; Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Faucher, Ian (Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2020)Private environmental governance provides new tools that can fill gaps in government regulatory regimes. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a valuable case study for testing the efficacy of private environmental ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Rossi, Jim (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)This Article examines a principal barrier to reducing U.S. carbon emissions — electricity distributors’ financial incentives to sell more of their product — and introduces the concept of net demand reduction (“NDR”) as a ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Rossi, Jim, 1965- (North Carolina Law Review, 2013)This Article examines a principal barrier to reducing U.S. carbon emissions — electricity distributors’ financial incentives to sell more of their product — and introduces the concept of net demand reduction (“NDR”) as a ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Barkenbus, Jack; Gilligan, Jonathan (UCLA Law Review, 2008)The individual and household sector generates roughly 30 to 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is a potential source of prompt and large emissions reductions. Yet the assumption that only extensive government ...
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Bressman, Lisa Schultz; Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Michigan Law Review, 2006)From the inception of the administrative state, scholars have proposed various models of agency decision-making to render such decision-making accountable and effective, only to see those models falter when confronted by ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Arkansas Law Review, 2018)In response to the shrinking federal role in environmental protection, many policy advocates have focused on the role of states and cities, but this symposium focuses on another important source of sustainability initiatives: ...
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Bressman, Lisa Schultz; Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Michigan Law Review, 2007)Professors Bressman and Vandenbergh respond to the comments of Sally Katzen on their article presenting and analyzing results from an empirical study of the top political appointees at the Enviromental Protection Agency ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Gilligan, Jonathan A. (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2010)Drawing on the recent financial crisis, we introduce the concept of macro-risk. We distinguish between micro-risks, which can be managed within conventional economic frameworks, and macro-risks, which threaten to disrupt ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Ackerly, Brooke A.; Forster, Fred E. (Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2009)We have been asked to examine climate change justice by discussing the methods of allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations. Our analysis suggests that climate and justice goals cannot be achieved by ...
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Vandenbergh, Michael P. (UCLA Law Review, 2007)This Article argues that networks of private contracts serve a public regulatory function in the global environmental arena. These networks fill the regulatory gaps created when global trade increases the exploitation of ...