Justin Gundlach

Senior Attorney

Justin Gundlach joined Policy Integrity in April 2019. His work focuses on state-level energy and climate policy. He is the co-editor, along with Michael Burger, of Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and the author of numerous articles, book chapters, white papers, and amicus briefs on legal and policy issues related to the impacts of energy use on the climate and of climate change on infrastructure and public health.

Before joining Policy Integrity, Justin was a member of the Policy Development team at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), a Staff Attorney at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, a Staff Attorney and Clinical Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s environmental litigation clinic, and an associate at Crowell & Moring LLP. He received an L.L.M. with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. cum laude from NYU School of Law, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. magna cum laude from Wesleyan University.

Bar Admissions: State Bar of New York

Follow him on Twitter at @JMGinNYC, email him at justin.gundlach@nyu.edu, or call him at (212) 992-8167.

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Articles

Harmonizing State Energy Utility Regulation and Climate Laws: A Case Study of New York (with Elizabeth Stein), 41 Energy Law Journal 211 (2020).

Building a New Grid Without New Legislation: A Path to Revitalizing Federal Transmission Authorities (with Avi Zevin, Sam Walsh & Isabel Carey):

Joint report with Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.
41 Ecology Law Quarterly (forthcoming 2021).

Climate Risks Are Becoming Legal Liabilities for the Energy Sector, 5 Nature Energy (February 2020).

Resilience Financing – Building Resilience to Natural Hazards and Accidents (with Cullen Howe), Real Estate Financing (LexisNexis 2019) (reprinted in California Law Reporter) (January 2020).

Microgrids and Resilience to Climate-Driven Impacts on Public Health (invited symposium contribution), 18 Houston Journal of Health Policy & Law 77 (2018).

DER Participation in Wholesale Markets: Lessons from the California ISO (with Romany Webb), 39 Energy Law Journal 47 (2018).

To Negotiate a Carbon Tax: a Map of Policy Interactions, Tradeoffs, and Risks, 43 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 269 (2018).

Carbon Pricing in New York ISO Markets (with Romany Webb), 35 Pace Environmental Law Review 1 (2018).

Putting Green Infrastructure on Private Property in New York City, 28 Environmental Law in New York Newsletter 139 (Sept. 2017).

Integrating Climate Change Resilience Into HUD’s Disaster Recovery Program (with Channing Jones), 46 Environmental Law Reporter 10282 (2016).

Elec. Power Supply Ass’n v. FERC—The End of Wholesale Demand Response?, 42 Ecology Law Quarterly 699 (2015).

Books and book chapters

Section 115 in Practice, in Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act (Michael Burger ed., Elgar 2020).

Climate Change and Energy Transition Policies (with Michael Gerrard), in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Envtl. Law (J. Vinuales & E. Lees eds. 2019).

Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law (Michael Burger & Justin Gundlach, eds., 2018); authored:

Chapter 6, The Built Environment (with Jennifer Klein)
Chapter 13, How Existing Environmental Laws Respond to Climate Change and Its Mitigation

Carbon Capture, Sequestration, and Utilization in the U.S. Climate Change Policy Context (with Michael Gerrard), in Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Emerging Legal & Regulatory Issues, 2nd ed. (R. Macrory & R. Stewart, eds. 2018).

Climate Engineering Research Governance (with Michael Burger), in Climate Engineering & the Law: Regulation & Liability for Solar Radiation Management & Carbon Dioxide Removal (Michael Gerrard & Tracy Hester eds. 2018).

Court filings

New York v. HHS (S.D.N.Y 2019) (Conscience Protections Rule)

New York v. HHS (S.D.N.Y 2019)

West Virginia v. EPA, __ F.3d __ (D.C. Cir. 2017) (Clean Power Plan)

FERC v. Electric Power Supply Association, 136 S. Ct. 760 (2016)

King v. Burwell, 135 S. Ct. 475 (2014)

Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, 134 S. Ct. 2427 (2014)

American Farm Bureau Federation v. EPA, 792 F.3d 281 (3d Cir. 2015)

EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P., 134 S. Ct. 1584 (2014)

Reports

Carbon Pricing in Wholesale Energy Markets (Conference Brief) (May 2020)

Carbon Pricing in Wholesale Electricity Markets: An Economic and Legal Guide (March 2020)