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Present	Professor of Law, University of San Francisco
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Articles (17)

Untapped Potential: The Carbon Reductions Left Out of EPA's ...

The Center for Progressive Reform (2016)

Alice Kaswan and Kirsten H. Engel

Although EPA’s Clean Power Plan represents EPA’s bold and commendable effort to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, our report ...

Controlling Power Plants: The Co-Pollutant Implications of EPA's Clean ...

Virginia Environmental Law Journal (2014)

Existing power plants are the nation’s largest single source of carbon emissions. In the absence of comprehensive federal climate change, ...

Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Lessons from the California Lawsuits

San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law (2014)

Beginning in June 2009, environmental justice groups brought several controversial lawsuits against California’s climate change program, sparking concern in the ...

Environmental Justice and Environmental Law

Fordham Environmental Law Review (2013)

This essay, prepared for the Fordham Environmental Law Review’s 20th Anniversary edition marking key developments in environmental law, addresses the ...

Seven Principles for Equitable Adaptation

Sustainable Development Law & Policy (2013)

Given the inevitability of serious climate impacts, climate change adaptation is becoming an urgent priority. Policy makers at the local, ...

Domestic Climate Change Adaptation and Equity

Environmental Law Reporter (2012)

It is now commonly accepted that climate change will lead to sea-level rise, more extreme storms, heat waves, wildfires, changing ...

Climate Change, the Clean Air Act, and Industrial Pollution

UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (2012)

EPA has braved controversy by applying the Clean Air Act (CAA) to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary sources, including ...

Decentralizing Cap-and-Trade? State Controls within a Federal Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade ...

Virginia Environmental Law Journal (2010)

Cap-and-trade programs for greenhouse gases (GHGs) present central political questions with significant economic and environmental ramifications. This paper addresses a ...

Climate Change, Consumption, and Cities

Fordham Urban Law Journal (2009)

In this article, Professor Kaswan argues that hoped-for greenhouse gas reductions cannot be achieved without reducing consumption. Given their control ...

Decentralizing Cap-and-Trade? The Question of State Stringency

San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law (2009)

A cap-and-trade program is likely to be a centerpiece of federal climate change legislation. The presence of a national market ...

Greening the Grid and Climate Justice

Environmental Law (2009)

This short symposium essay argues that the collateral environmental and economic justice benefits of greening the grid provide support for ...

Environmental Justice and Domestic Climate Change Policy

Environmental Law Reporter (2008)

This article argues that, except in California, environmental justice considerations have not received sufficient attention in climate change policy debates. ...

A Cooperative Federalism Proposal for Climate Legislation: The Value of ...

Denver University Law Review (2008)

Policymakers and scholars alike are struggling with the federalism question: whether climate change regulation should flow from a global, national, ...

The Domestic Response to Global Climate Change: What Role for ...

University of San Francisco Law Review (2007)

Although the United States is not a party to the Kyoto Protocol, a multitude of alternative domestic approaches to combat ...

Distributive Justice and the Environment

North Carolina Law Review (2003)

One of the most important developments in environmental law over the last three decades has been the emergence of the ...

Environmental Laws: Grist for the Equal Protection Mill

University of Colorado Law Review (1999)

In this article, Professor Kaswan continues to address the relationship between environmental laws and civil rights claims in the context ...

Environmental Justice: Bridging the Gap between Environmental Laws and 'Justice'

American University Law Review (1997)

In this article, Professor Kaswan considers the sometimes-tense intersection between environmentalism and the environmental justice movement. Professor Kaswan first establishes ...

Contribution to Book

Reconciling Justice and Efficiency: Integrating Environmental Justice into Domestic Cap-and-Trade ...

Ethics and Global Climate Change (2011)

In the last thirty years, two opposing trends have emerged in environmental policy: environmental justice and market-based mechanisms. They present ...