Michael Hamersky
Executive Director - Pace Energy and Climate Center @Elisabeth Haub School Of Law At Pace University
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Director - Pace Energy and Climate Center @Elisabeth Haub School Of Law At Pace University
Over nearly four decades, the Pace Energy and Climate Center has established itself as a national leader working at the intersection of energy and the environment. At the Center, Michael focuses on policy solutions related to climate change mitigation, clean energy deployment, sustainable development, and renewable energy incentive structures. Importantly, Michael prioritizes the Center’s work on the impact that the clean energy transition will have on vulnerable communities.
EDUCATION
Boston University
BA, Political Science & Psychology
Fordham University School of Law
Doctor of Law (JD)
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Master of Laws - LLM, Environmental Studies: Energy Law and Climate Change
SKILLS
ABOUT MICHAEL HAMERSKY
Michael Hamersky is the Executive Director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center (\"PECC\"). Over nearly four decades, PECC has established itself as an international leader working at the intersection of energy and the environment. PECC focuses on policy solutions related to a just energy transition, clean energy deployment, sustainable development, and renewable energy incentive structures. Importantly, Michael prioritizes PECC\'s work on phasing out fossil fuels and the impact that the clean energy transition will have on vulnerable communities.Michael is leading PECC\'s efforts in facilitating downstate New York\'s transition to clean energy by helping communities navigate barriers to renewable energy deployment and access available funding in furtherance of that goal. Michael also leads a team of Pace Energy and Climate Scholars who are seeking pathways to phase out fossil fuels towards a global just energy transition. At PECC, Michael works closely with Native American tribes to ensure that tribal communities have access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. As the result of his work with tribal NGOs, he was invited to speak on proposed revisions to laws and federal regulations towards a more sustainable energy future free of fossil fuels by the Navajo Nation Department of Fish and Wildlife in August 2024. Michael also presented on the just energy transition in Belem, Brazil at COP30.Prior to this role, Michael served as the Climate Change and Land Use Policy Fellow at Pace Haub Law where he focused on the clean energy transition and the various barriers to, and incentives for, renewable energy deployment. Specifically, he advised the United States Department of Energy, as well as end-users and municipalities, on how to best implement on-site distributed energy resources in the New York/New Jersey region considering the economics in light of regional energy markets. Michael has also developed recommendations to the New York State Research and Development Authority (“NYSERDA”) to update New York’s battery storage, and wind energy, systems model laws and has prepared resources related to large renewable energy project siting and permitting process, which is used by NYSERDA to educate municipalities throughout the state. Michael also teaches Natural Resources Law at Haub Law, and was an Adjunct Professor of trial advocacy at the Fordham University School of Law. He has a passion for defending the ocean and has produced scholarship related to protecting ocean ecosystems from the environmental harms related to deep seabed mining.
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