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Navigating the Intersection of Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Exploring the ITLOS Advisory Opinion’s Substantive Content

Law Columbia

Additionally, ITLOS can also apply rules of reference , referred to as “generally recognized international rules and standards” or “global rules and standards,” which exist in other sources of law incorporated into UNCLOS by reference ( see, e.g., Articles 207-2012 UNCLOS ). These rules are, in effect, binding norms incorporated into UNCLOS.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. The court found that a 2012 no-jeopardy determination was unsupported, arbitrary, and capricious because it did not account for the owl’s recovery. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. Chao , No. Williams , No.

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Donald Trump v. The Environment: learning from past attempts to dismantle environmental policy

Environmental Europe

Critically, while he is most vocal against climate change he is no strong supporter of environmental policy in general. Layzer contends that US Conservatives have thus “created a storyline that undermines the environmental narrative by discrediting environmentalists and furnishing a principled basis for disputing their claims”. [2]