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.” Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated?
Legal Planet
JANUARY 12, 2023
EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. 2007 Supreme Court decides Massachusetts v. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. This to-and-fro is a sobering reminder of how much elections matter.
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Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. As in the U.S.,
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
In 2007, the Supreme Court held that EPA had jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gases at the federal level. EPA and other agencies still retained power to regulate greenhouse gases but would need to do so circumspectly. The Northeastern states adopted a cap-and-trade scheme of their own known as RGGI.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 29, 2023
These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). Passing fees in California requires a two-third’s vote from both houses of the legislature, and when vote margins are slim, the politics get tricky.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 20, 2023
As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” So I’ve begun to meet presidential candidates… … and ask climate questions that relate to their own political history, past statements, and actions.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 1, 2024
While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.
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