Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

At the beginning of the 20th century, Costa Rica had focused its economic development mainly on agricultural activity, enacting laws that encouraged deforestation to turn land into agriculture , such as the land and colonisation law of 1961.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”. The impact of climate change on Caribbean tourism demand.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1% by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. o C global warming scenario.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But, the idea of a shared benefit—both to the world and Brazil—is a paradox developing and developed nations have struggled with concerning their global commitment to reduce overall carbon emissions because, as Bolsonaro implied during his remarks, overly restrictive environmental regulations could impair a nation’s economic growth and development.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

Gerrard, Columbia Law Professor and Director of the Sabin Center. Voters in Los Angeles County recognized the critical need to address climate change when they overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 23 — the 2010 ballot measure that would have suspended California’s landmark global warming law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

percent of total emissions. They found that 48 percent of the increase in the region’s fire-friendly conditions since 1901—specifically drier land and vegetation—can be traced to the 88 companies’ carbon emissions. What went into that calculation? CP: Great question.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. In short, we’re seeing something like a slimmed-down Green New Deal.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

C above the 1981–2010 reference period, almost two degrees higher than the previous record. Shortly ahead of the summit, the UK government announced that it would set in law a target to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Avista Corp.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

When the campaign to cut carbon emissions began in the last decade of the 20 th Century, there seemed to be a clear path forward. International negotiations would begin with a framework convention, followed by a later global agreement capping carbon emissions. And indeed, a major climate bill did pass the House.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. Renewables,” I added, “have gotten peanuts in comparison.”

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

greenhouse gases, to the front of the nation’s work to reduce carbon emissions. billion on 141 experimental projects that test the capacity of farmers to reduce carbon emissions from agriculture, which produces about 10 percent of U.S. The first grants from the US Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) greenhouse gases.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

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. . Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . Of that amount, $1.2 James Flynn is an LL.M.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Today, as a partner at Cascadia Law Group and a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington, Maia is a bridge between Tribal Nations, U.S. She achieved success in carbon emission reduction, water resources, and water quality management. and Washington governments, and advocates of our precious environment.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

played a crucial role in negotiating the Kyoto Protocol, which required developed countries to cut their carbon emissions 5% below 1990 levels. The Kyoto Protocol may have led to emission reductions in Europe, but there was never any real prospect that the Senate would ever ratify the agreement. Under Clinton, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 25, 2021

117-2) into law in March 2021. 99- 272), signed into law April 7, 1986 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-509), signed into law October 21, 1986.]] higher education reforms,[[N:Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. N:Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. First Circuit Certified State Law Preemption Questions in Case Challenging Local Ordinance Prohibiting Crude Oil Loading at Harbor. and non-U.S. 19-50178 (5th Cir.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 But, many legal experts say the legal tug of war over the foundational water law is likely to continue until the Supreme Court weighs in again. degrees Celsius.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2022

There is no single widely accepted definition of the social cost of carbon, but most would accept that it is the present value of the future damages from one additional unit of carbon emissions in a particular year. The uncertainty in all of this is more like “The Pit and the Pendulum” than federal government policy.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months. 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.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As this century began, things looked optimistic, with both presidential candidates favoring reductions in carbon emissions. Waiting for Congress: 2000-2010. California followed up the Pavley Act with AB32, which attacked carbon emissions more broadly and established a cap-and-trade scheme.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Try explaining that to your new Peruvian sister-in-law. in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe.

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