HARTFORD, Conn. —Stephen Humes and Wylie Donald, partners at the law firm McCarter & English, have announced the launch of ClimateLawyers.com, a blog devoted to the legal, public policy and business risk questions presented by climate change and renewable energy initiatives.
 
Donald, based in the Hartford office, draws on substantial environmental experience, prior non-legal technical work and deep involvement in risk management to assist clients in understanding and controlling the coming regulatory and non-regulatory impacts of climate change.  He has authored climate change articles and made leading presentations to clients and industry.  His article, “Climate Change and the D&O Pollution Exclusion,” 41 Tort Trial & Ins. L.J. 1033 (Summer 2006), was one of the first to extrapolate climate change legal impacts outside of the regulatory area.  Another, which he co-authored with Craig Davis, “Carbon Dioxide: Harmless, Ubiquitous and Certainly Not a Pollutant Under a Liability Policy's Absolute Pollution Exclusion,” is pending for publication in the Seton Hall Law Review.
 
Humes, based in the Wilmington, Del., office, co-chairs McCarter’s Climate Change Group with Donald.  Humes has also played a leading role in understanding the issues of climate change law and business risk and has been focusing his energy, utilities and environmental experience in helping clients to understand the regulatory compliance issues.  He also has written and spoken extensively on climate change issues, especially through his leadership role with the American Bar Association.  In his latest collaboration, he co-chaired a national conference on climate change presented in June by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Environmental Law entitled Global Warming II: How the Law Can Best Address Climate Change.
 
McCarter & English, established more than 160 years ago, represents Fortune 500 and middle-market companies in their national, regional and local litigation and on important transactions.  Its 400 attorneys are based in offices in Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, N.J., Philadelphia, Stamford, Conn., and Wilmington.