NY17's Adam Schleifer Endorsed By National Climate-Change Expert

Michael Gerrard is the Founder and Director of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, a Columbia Law School Professor, and Former Chair of the Earth Institute

Gerrard: "Adam will be a credit to this community, to the United States Congress, and, most important, to our planet"

White Plains, NY – Adam P. Schleifer, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York's 17th Congressional District, announced today, on Earth Day, that he has earned the endorsement of the nationally-renowned expert on climate-change and environmental policy, Professor Michael Gerrard.

Gerrard is the Founder and Director of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, and the former Chair of the Earth Institute of Columbia University

Michael Gerrard's endorsement of Schleifer can be read below:

"Adam is an uncommonly deep and creative thinker with a profound and impressive record of accomplishment at the highest levels of public service and private legal practice. His intellectual energy, honesty, and integrity are all too rare in public life and I very much look forward to continuing our productive dialogue on how a carbon tax and other federal policies can be implemented in order to restore our planet and further the cause of earth justice. I have no doubt that Adam will be a credit to this community, to the United States Congress, and, most important, to our planet."

Michael B. Gerrard, the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, teaches courses on environmental law, climate change law, and energy regulation, and founded and directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He also chaired the faculty of Columbia University's Earth Institute from 2015 to 2018.

A prolific writer in environmental law and climate change, Gerrard twice received the Association of American Publishers' Best Law Book award for works on environmental law and brownfields. He has written or edited thirteen books, including Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, the leading work in its field (second edition published in 2014, co-edited with Jody Freeman), and the 12-volume Environmental Law Practice Guide. His most recent book is Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (2019, coedited with John Dernbach).

Gerrard was the 2004-2005 chair of the American Bar Association's 10,000-member section of environment, energy, and resources. He also chaired the New York City Bar Association's executive committee and the New York State Bar Association's environmental law section. He has served on the executive committees of the boards of the Environmental Law Institute and the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Several independent rating services ranked Gerrard as the leading environmental lawyer in New York and one of the leading environmental lawyers in the world.

About Adam Schleifer:

Adam Schleifer, 38, graduated from Chappaqua's public schools in 1999 and went on to attend Cornell University and Columbia University Law School, where he served as a Senior & Staff Development Editor on the Columbia Law Review. After graduating from law school, Schleifer served two years as a federal law clerk, first in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Schleifer then built a career at one of the nation's leading law firms before reentering public service, first as a New York State consumer-protection regulator, and then as an Assistant United States Attorney. Schleifer has prosecuted regulatory and federal-criminal actions against predatory payday and subprime auto lenders; taken dangerous and illegal weapons out of communities; prosecuted crimes of sexual violence and predation; and protected our clean air by prosecuting a conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act. Adam Schleifer and his wife, Nicole, are residents of New Castle.

Read more about Adam Schleifer at www.AdamSchleifer.com.

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