Climate change, rapidly expanding into its own area of law, presents an immense opportunity for jobs and the economy in Michigan, but not until the state becomes more fiscally attractive to companies, an attorney said Tuesday at Wayne State's law school.
"There are nothing short of unbelievable opportunities in the practice of climate change law," said Mark Bennett, leader of Miller Canfield's Climate Change Practice. Bennett spoke at an event hosted Tuesday afternoon by the Environmental Law Society at his alma mater, Wayne State University Law School.
The idea for the practice, Bennett said, came to him while attending an American Bar Association conference on climate change nearly two years ago, around the same time Miller Canfield was recruiting him to join the firm after spending many years in business.
"I said, 'Oh my God, this is going to hit Detroit like a freight train,'" Bennett remembered of the conference, speaking of the Kyoto Pr...