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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

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Whether any such gaps exist in IEL is doubtful, since ordinarily the absence of a legal rule regulating an issue (say, plastics pollution or protection of a species) does not create a gap in the law; it simply means that, legally, states are free to act as they choose. The Global Pact could change this. That is why U.S. A return to the U.S.

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30 Years of U.S. Climate Policy

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EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. The court also said it was “far from clear” that the states had demonstrated that the repeal would cause particularized harm.) Association of Irritated Residents v. F078460 (Cal.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. The Court wrote, “The court acknowledges that RDS cannot solve this global problem on its own.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in August 2016 establishing greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. million rate increase.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

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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. Good Bye to the EPA as We Know It?

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