Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Together, these perspectives identify a number of existing issues that merit attention and, if heeded, might inform negotiations on the future of international environmental governance. . Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. United States v.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

This fundamental reality has been obscured by the high complexity of wholesale electricity “markets,” which were created by government policies and regulations and mask the high cost of integrating variable renewable energy sources — until, that is, disaster strikes. is 32 years, as of January 2021. [14] I believe the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] 8] The hardening required of nuclear plants first in response to 9/11 and then in response to the loss of Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 has further ensured their contribution to reliability, resiliency, and affordability. [9]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. His address focused on corporate taxes, and he shared his expert opinion that a carbon tax had a legitimate place in our national revenue system.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. Look at the food crisis last year,” said former World Bank engineer John Briscoe in a 2011 interview.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Renewables contributed to electricity prices rising six times more in California than in the rest of the US since 2011, the state’s “take-off” year for rapid growth in wind and solar, a price rise that occurred despite the state’s reliance during the same years on persistently-low-priced natural gas.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The government sets an overall emissions target¾the cap¾and determines which facilities will be covered. Emission allowances, each generally equal to one ton of emissions, are periodically auctioned or distributed without cost—or both—to covered facilities. [14]. Cap-and-trade programs generally operate as follows. [13].

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. The appellate court agreed with the court below that the lawsuit raised nonjusticiable political questions. Reynolds v. State , No.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants. The Supreme Court is ignoring the science on health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. How has Paxton responded? No surprise, Fitch is an oil and gas industry favorite.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) Environmental Council of Sacramento v. County of Sacramento , No.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

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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