Legal Planet
APRIL 29, 2024
New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Utility-scale solar was an even more dramatic story.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]
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Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2024
EPA lost all three of the biggest cases since 2008. Since Obama’s election in 2008, the two sides have more or less switched. Since Obama, EPA has used this authority to regulation carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants. The two most recent losses were particularly serious. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S.
Legal Planet
MAY 25, 2023
The result of a default-driven recession: the energy transition is put on hold while carbon emissions from fossil fuels continue — emissions that will stay in the atmosphere warming the planet for two hundred years or more. That brings us to the topic of political ripple effects. Domestic politics.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 20, 2023
Candidates did not use climate change as a defining issue in the 2008 presidential general election because there was no daylight between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama with respect to climate science, a sense of urgency, and policy solutions! Cannot the past be prologue?
Legal Planet
MARCH 30, 2023
One way of getting a handle on the amount of harm, though, is to assume that if Bush had kept his promise, emissions during his presidency would have declined as much as they did under his successor Obama. True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. billion tons per year.
Vermont Law
APRIL 7, 2022
Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1) Citations See e.g. Alice C. Hill, et al., Anastario, et.
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