Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. 2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

It is one of Canada’s most fundamental environmental laws, and plays a key role in ensuring sound decisions over projects affecting nature, communities, and Indigenous rights. For the first time, we have a law that requires the consideration of a project’s total carbon pollution before it gets approved.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions substantially affect the deterioration of the marine environment, causing ocean acidification, sea-level rise, and deoxygenation of the oceans.

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MARCH 21, 2024

They did though make some needed planning reforms, such as the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) in 2012, which initiated a wave of performance-based planning through tracking and reporting progress on measures related to safety, infrastructure conditions, congestion, project delivery, and environmental sustainability.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

and other major greenhouse gas emitters? Ahead of COP18 in 2012, U.K. This provision, known as Paragraph 51, effectively ensures that the Paris Agreement cannot give rise to legal claims to recover for loss and damage, but at the same time it doesn’t preclude claims under existing law. At COP25, the U.S.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

Previously BAAQMD had published guidelines in 2012, which were the subject of litigation culminating in the California Supreme Court’s decision in California Building Industry Assn. BAAQMD does acknowledge, however, that consistency with a local greenhouse gas reduction strategy per CEQA Guidelines section 15183.5(b) 2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Fifth National Climate Assessment recently concluded that, to meet national and international climate targets, United States net greenhouse gas emissions will need to decline by over 6% per year and reach net zero by roughly 2050. The Supremacy Clause serves to “ invalidate[] state law that interferes with or is contrary to federal law.”

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Farm Bill is likely the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. More detail can be found in my book, Farming for Our Future; The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture , and related Columbia , Harvard , NYU , and Yale Law School blogs). For example, between 2007 and 2012, 7.8

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

But there is no place you can go on Earth that has not been modified by humans in some way – and we have been modifying our environments for tens of thousands of years through purposeful burning, species introductions & extinctions, agriculture, and now the rapid release of greenhouse gases causing global climate change.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

China, and United Arab Emirates hosted the Summit on Methane and non-CO 2 Greenhouse Gases that called on the parties of the Paris Agreement to include methane and other GHGs in their nationally determined contributions (NDC). This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations.

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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 . emissions from the power sector. [3].

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

One formulation that has been suggested is, “What are the obligations under international law of a State for ensuring that activities under its jurisdiction or control that emit greenhouse gases do not cause, or substantially contribute to, serious damage to another State or State?” However, they can have great impact.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). SB 1122 (2012) broadly promotes bioenergy, and requires 90 megawatts of production specifically from agricultural sources – providing an early incentive for use of dairy digester gas.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The law also requires future working groups, including a Building Energy Transition Implementation Task Force.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ESG goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in buildings. Since then, there have been 5 editions of the IgCC, and the last adopted for use in Maryland was the 2012 version. Live webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?”

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

To borrow a page from his playbook, let’s consider a bold, “all-in” strategy to combat climate change – one that includes aggressive and timely actions by the states to abate greenhouse gas emissions. By 2012, 20 to 25 states had developed state climate plans. Without question, the Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al., Download as PDF.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

When forests and wetlands are flooded to create a new reservoir, they release a wave of greenhouse gas emissions that initially rival the emissions produced by gas-burning power plants, according to a 2011 study of a Hydro-Quebec reservoir. Detractors argue Hydro-Quebec’s battery is not so green. CHPE faces opposition further down the line.

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Acoel

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 2012: “In an increasingly carbon- constrained world, our existing environmental laws and regulatory process no longer achieve their underlying goals of long-term ecosystem conservation. We have little time left to create a practical path to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.” But today, it’s .

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. These standards required each automobile manufacturer to reduce the average emissions from its vehicle fleet by approximately 5% per year between 2012 and 2025. EPA , 142 S.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 16, 2022

Today there is a significant increased emphasis on renewable energy in company ESG disclosures about reducing the environmental and economic harms associated with fossil fuel energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the supply of renewable energy projects and foster a just transition to a green economy.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since my inaugural post (which can be viewed here ) was a “top ten” list of CEQA litigation mistakes to avoid, I thought an appropriate tenth anniversary post might be a list of the ten most significant CEQA case law developments over the past decade. County of Alameda (2012) 54 Cal.4th The Supreme Court, in Tomlinson v.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. Under the proposed rules, the newly covered sources are required to begin collecting emissions data on January 1, 2011 and are required to submit the first annual reports to EPA on March 31, 2012.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2022

The Biden administration is once again allowing federal environmental reviews to assess impacts that extend beyond the immediate project — those “indirect” and “cumulative” impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions and a community’s aggregate pollution burden. Their goal was clearly to prevent consideration of climate change.”.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 24, 2022

The claim is not that any of that is not true, but rather that sustainable and ESG advertising claims appeal to consumers who will fly KLM and other airlines when the only current means of airlines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to fly less. Just how sustainable a particular company really is can be a matter of debate.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound by John Keeble. HarperCollins, 1991). The History of the Standard Oil Co. by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of total United States greenhouse gas emissions, with passenger cars and light-duty trucks being the largest source. In January 2017, the EPA administrator completed a midterm review of the model year 2017-2025 greenhouse gas emissions standards and determined that the standards for model year 2022-2025 were appropriate. 27 percent.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

The environmental law world buzzed with optimism as late November neared. Negotiators previously reached a “groundbreaking” international agreement that was expected to halt the global rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Sure, laws may help to speed along the development of non-fossil fuel sources of energy through “technology forcing.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Faces Behind a Global Crisis: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock (International Forum on Globalization, December 2012). billion combined in income taxes each year from the Trump tax law―and that doesn’t even count how much the brothers might save in taxes. The fine was $30 million. Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Subpart W rule to cover petroleum and natural gas facilities under the agency’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program. Under the final rule, facilities are required to begin collecting emissions data on January 1, 2011, and the first annual report is due by March 31, 2012.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 2, 2021

At least 13 climate-related ISDS cases filed between 2012 and the present were identified. International investment law and ISDS. International investment law is gaining increasing attention as a forum for climate change litigation. We have identified at least 13 climate-related ISDS cases filed between 2012 and the present.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Columbia Center for Climate Change Law. In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Brazil famously hosted the UN Earth Summit in 1992 and Rio+20 in 2012. International law, which is based on sound scientific evidence , clearly establishes the pressing need for effective mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Throughout the last four years, this legacy was sorely tested.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After several years of deadlock, parties established a work program on L&D in 2012 (at COP17 in Durban), further formalized in 2013 as the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM). The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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