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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution.

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Supreme Court Issues Decision Sharply Limiting Clean Water Act Jurisdiction over Wetlands

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715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), the two federal agencies conferred by Congress with authority to oversee federal CWA implementation. United States , 547 U. at (slip op.

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Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach

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This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate, a multi-school online forum run by student editors from the nation’s leading environmental law reviews. . The report breaks down these investments into four categories. Ramseur, The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Lessons Learned and Issues for Congress.

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The Long Life and Sudden Demise of Federal Wetlands Protection

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1972 , Congress passes the Clean Water Act, which requires a federal permit for filling or dredging in “navigable waters,” defined as the “waters of the United States.” Five Justices (four dissenters plus Justiice Kennedy) support the “significant nexus” test, which the lower courts generally view as binding law. In Rapanos v.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” Nations Agree to “Phase Down” Use of Coal at UN Climate Conference. Executive Branch.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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Scientist Elected to Congress. Congress would need to provide funding for NSF through the annual appropriations process or special legislation. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law. Scientist Elected to Congress.

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