Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Superior Court dismissed counterclaims brought by an individual writer against the climate scientist Michael Mann in Mann’s defamation lawsuit against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and two individuals. Bernhardt , No.

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2019 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. The court stated: “Any injury allegedly stemming from the prospect that the Executive Order has delayed the issuance of unspecified regulations relating to a broadly defined area of concern is too abstract and speculative to support standing.” Trump , No.

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2018 Clean Air Act Climate Change Endangered Species Act 40

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The opinion, known as the Bernhardt Memorandum , states that project-specific GHG emissions could not pass the “may affect” test and thus GHG emissions were “not subject to consultation under the ESA and its implementing regulations.” See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al. 2017) ; Lunn et al.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Sea Level 2008 58

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Since Congress lifted the ban on oil exports in 2015, all American-drilled oil and some of our natural gas have been priced on the international market. Market dynamics, not overzealous regulations, have imprisoned the industry. That hasn’t stopped lobbyists from pretending otherwise.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Egged on by Koch devotees both inside and outside the government, the Trump administration rolled back at least 260 regulations , including more than 100 environmental rules. Koch’s most recent public comments about climate change came during lengthy interviews with the Washington Post in 2015 and 2016. Yeah,” Koch replied. “If

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

LNG Exporters Emerge As Big Winners Of Europe Natural Gas Crisis; Price For LNG 10 Times Its Value A Year Ago -- The Guardian: ‘This Is A Fossil Fuel War’: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out -- PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0;

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

climate change and biodiversity conservation policies, including the 2050 net-zero emissions goal and the “30 by 30” conservation goal. Gonzalez is a forest ecologist who is adjunct faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the leading climate scientist for the National Park Service. The SRC will meet on Sept.

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2021 Clean Water Act Climate Change Conservation 52

ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Global Change Research Program since 2015. EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that the agency will rewrite a Trump administration regulation that limited state’s ability to block pipeline and fossil fuel export facilities under the Clean Water Act. ESA and other scientific societies opposed this regulation.

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