Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

Based on press reports, it now seems likely that Biden will soon declare climate change to be a national emergency. Would it unlock important powers that could be used to fight climate change? In 2019, I was worried that using this precedent to fight climate change will require some real soul-searching.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. agencies that the emergency was “the world’s first climate-induced famine.”

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. The only thing worse than a wet heat is being governed by climate change deniers in a wet heat. If signed by Gov. Senate Bill 1624 , by Sen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Federal Highway Administration finalized an important regulation–the greenhouse gas performance measure. Currently, only 24 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring them to set targets and track their greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A lot has happened this year, with political turmoil in the House of Representatives, indictments of Donald Trump and associates, and a close scrape with default on the national debt. California enacted two major laws requiring corporations to disclose their carbon emissions and financial risks relating to climate change.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission restricts consideration of climate change in approving new natural gas pipelines. 2019 June. September EPA revokes California’s authority to set greenhouse gas emission rules for vehicles. October. EPA limits ability of states to block infrastructure projects for environmental reasons.

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Law and Environment

JULY 17, 2023

Yesterday, Climatewire (subscription required) released a peer review letter on EPA’s Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (SC-GHG), which got a fair bit of press last year, because EPA’s metric was $190/ton, even though the Biden administration was using the $51/ton figure originally developed by the Obama administration.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . For the past four years, Ontario has been failing on climate change. Will your party commit to reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” It’s not hard to understand.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

In his four years in office, Donald Trump rolled back essentially every existing federal policy to limit climate change. It also ensures that climate change can be considered as a basis for listing. EPA’s greenhouse gas emission standards will avoid 1.38 April 4, 2024. April 22, 2024. March 29, 2024.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But he also voices full-throated conspiracy theories denying the reality of human-caused climate change. These election fraud and anti-vaccine conspiracies converge with some far-out ideas about climate science. No candidate who thought climate change was an important issue would have picked Bigtree to run communications.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro: PA Environmental Leaders Praise Energy/Climate Plan -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov. Shapiro -- Gov.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Still, there are all too many politicians and public figures who act as if their goal was to foment climate change. No doubt the real motives are more mundane: ignorance, financial gain, political ambition, or fear of change. Donald Trump is, of course, the poster child for this campaign. Download as PDF

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. I must acknowledge upfront that I have not interviewed either of them about their climate change adaptation pessimism.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on February 21 to discuss a proposed scope of work for the 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment and state Climate Action Plan as required by Act 70 of 2008. For more information and available handouts, visit DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee webpage.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The article surveys a range of criticisms of the use of carbon taxes as a tool to address greenhouse gas emissions, and criticisms of the focus of many economists on carbon taxes as the primary tool to address climate change. Politics is central in policy.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

Yet because of the politics of climate change, the rule will almost certainly be subject to a similar challenge. The post EPA Proposes New Power Plant Rule That Promises Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in the Coming Years first appeared on Law and the Environment. For more on West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore why targeting methane emissions presents a more advantageous strategy for the United States in its quest to mitigate climate change. Implementing strategies to minimize these leaks not only helps combat climate change but also conserves valuable energy resources.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

There is one single thing you can give up that will help address climate change: voter apathy. Because they just “weren’t registered” or they “weren’t interested in politics,” according to this Ipsos survey. Most Americans have real questions and concerns about climate change that should be engaged with on a day like today.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State climate policy is a big deal. State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. it’s not for nothing that 2023 has been called a banner year for state climate action. Who knew cheese was such a pollution problem?)

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

True, methane is a potent greenhouse gas. I’ve rethought that conclusion, however for a combination of policy and political economy reasons. Before we can take those steps, institutions and public attitudes will themselves have to adapt to the realities of climate change. The Biden Administration is well aware of that.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

And through it all, we (the staff and faculty of UCLA Law and Berkeley Law) will be here to offer analysis backed by research, unique legal perspectives, innovative policy proposals, and informed political commentary. greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks for reading Legal Planet this year. public land in several decades.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For nearly three decades the United Nations has been bringing together almost every country on Earth for global climate summits known as the “Conference of the Parties”. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Obama Administration sought to expand NEPA consideration of greenhouse gas emissions, among other changes, but then the Trump Administration sought to truncate application of the law. A refresher on NEPA and the recent political turmoil around the law can be found here. A description of that guidance can be found here.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. I am a microeconomist and I said to Marty; "Many of us know that we do not know what risks climate change will pose.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2006 AB 32. 2006 AB 32. 2015 SB350.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

EPA , the Supreme Court used the “major question doctrine” to overturn Obama’s signature climate change regulation. Labeling and reuse requirements for cylinders with HFCs, the super-powerful greenhouse gases. In West Virginia v. Biden , 67 F.4 4 th 921 (9 th Cir. 2023), vacated as moot, 70 F. 4 th 1167 (9 th Cir.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

To begin with, the SEC proposal is consistent with existing international frameworks, which is important for addressing a global challenge such as climate change. The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

.” The Times article focuses on the alarming intersection of three current environmental crises–water supply shortages, groundwater contamination, and excessive greenhouse gas emission levels–that threaten California and other states across the nation. And that presents a commonsense path to fracking reform.

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