Program Details
2026-08-25 13:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-08-25 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ESTThis CLE webinar will examine the ongoing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) litigation, and the broader implications of federal climate funding freezes and grant terminations. Our authoritative panel will explain the GGRF’s structure, the current disputes involving the EPA, Citibank, and grant recipients, and the legal theories brought to challenge the suspension or termination of congressionally authorized climate funding.
Kristin E. NiverDavid A. Super 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm ESTAlthough rooted in federal climate funding, the GGRF litigation presents issues beyond environmental law, including agency authority, federal grant rights, appropriations limits, and available remedies. The panel will discuss the litigation’s grounding within administrative law, appropriations and impoundment issues, the associated constitutional arguments, the impact of federal grant rules, and the challenges related to jurisdiction, sovereign immunity, and the practical limits to any remedies. The panel will navigate the resulting concerns for grantees, subrecipients, lenders, and others who may rely on federal climate funding. Listen as our panel discusses the GGRF litigation, the public law and funding doctrines behind the cases, and possibilities for preserving rights and counseling affected clients.
Kristin E. NiverDavid A. SuperKristin E. Niver is Counsel at Robinson & Cole, practicing real estate finance with a career-long concentration on affordable housing, impact finance, and community development transactions. Her clean energy practice sits inside the program at issue in this class: she represents subrecipients of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that are building green loan programs to finance clean energy improvements to multifamily housing projects nationwide. She also advises nonprofits, CDFI lenders, and green banks on investment tax credit structures, including bridge financing for direct pay tax credit transfers. She practices from the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices.
David A. Super is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Economics at Georgetown University Law Center. His research centers on administrative law, constitutional law, legislation including the federal budget, local government law, and public welfare law, and his listed areas of expertise include budget and appropriations law, administrative law, constitutional law, legislation, and taxation. He came to the academy from the advocacy side of federal budget and benefits practice, and he writes and comments publicly on federal spending authority, including a June 2026 Balkinization series on the power of the purse and shifts in that power within Congress and the executive branch.
Kristin E. Niver is Counsel at Robinson & Cole, practicing real estate finance with a career-long concentration on affordable housing, impact finance, and community development transactions. Her clean energy practice sits inside the program at issue in this class: she represents subrecipients of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that are building green loan programs to finance clean energy improvements to multifamily housing projects nationwide. She also advises nonprofits, CDFI lenders, and green banks on investment tax credit structures, including bridge financing for direct pay tax credit transfers. She practices from the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices.
David A. Super is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Economics at Georgetown University Law Center. His research centers on administrative law, constitutional law, legislation including the federal budget, local government law, and public welfare law, and his listed areas of expertise include budget and appropriations law, administrative law, constitutional law, legislation, and taxation. He came to the academy from the advocacy side of federal budget and benefits practice, and he writes and comments publicly on federal spending authority, including a June 2026 Balkinization series on the power of the purse and shifts in that power within Congress and the executive branch.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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