Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until 2030 the EU shall emit 55 % less Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), compared to 1990 levels. Technically this shall be included in an amendment to the proposed Climate Law. this would not be sufficient to achieve a 55% greenhouse gas emissions reduction target. It argues: `However, (.)

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When the a law is focused on one impact of coal, attempts to take into account other harms can get mired in controversies about considering “co-benefits” and direct versus indirect or cumulative impacts. The existence of these laws is a testament to the environmental harms of the activity. Download as PDF.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. candidate at Berkeley Law.

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Law of the Lands

JANUARY 16, 2019

On November 8, 2018, the Board issued its Reasons for Decision in a case involving allegations of disturbances due to odour, flies, dust, light, noise and vibration arising from the operation of a biodigester at a large greenhouse operation. The Application was brought by a number of residents living in the vicinity of the operation in 2015.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. Francis has outlined a three-pronged climate change fix: remove greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, restore ecosystems, and help the people who are most vulnerable to climate change with resources to adapt to our changing climate. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Ashton Roberts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2022

The analysis showed that the promised action would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 9% this decade, far short of the global goal to cut emissions by nearly half by 2030. Of the 100 countries with net-zero carbon neutrality targets currently only 14 have net-zero targets signed into law.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Read the brief here.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2023

Rushlow, Vermont Law & Graduate School On May 11, 2023, the Biden administration proposed new regulations to curb carbon pollution from existing power plants. The new rules replace the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was proposed in 2015 but ran into multiple legal challenges and never took effect. by Jennifer K.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The topic has steadily gained traction in international climate negotiations since then, with “loss and damage” first appearing in a negotiated text at COP13 in 2007 and later forming the “third pillar” of climate action in the Paris Agreement in 2015. and other major greenhouse gas emitters? and other developed nations. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has given us a great opportunity, and I'm proud of the progress that we – along with our partners – have made to prepare Pennsylvania for a future filled with electric vehicles.” The transportation sector produces the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.,”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). Both the science and law around climate change have progressed. But a lot has changed since then.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The four wells that are part of this announcement were list as abandoned by DEP since April 14, 2015.] This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 14, 2015 - report not available, but noting ‘no adverse event or action reported.] operates 110 conventional wells.] [The

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

2015) 62 Cal.4th BAAQMD does acknowledge, however, that consistency with a local greenhouse gas reduction strategy per CEQA Guidelines section 15183.5(b) Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Bay Area Air Quality Management Dist. b) remains a viable option.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement. So, I asked him what we should make of this alarming but confusing development in the study of global temperatures. Q: What exactly is the 1.5 C threshold? Celsius (or 2.7 C,” and “pursue efforts” to limit heating to 1.5

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

In addition to wetlands impacts, the groups allege that the LNG terminal and an associated pipeline would have a “staggering” impact on the climate in the form of greenhouse gas emissions. 2, 2015), Docket No. million tonnes/year of LNG that would be available for export, and the creation of 7,000 jobs. . 1451 et seq.). [3]

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

In 2018, Parliament enacted the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , S.C. Parliament passed the GGPPA based on an international consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories. Burning fossil fuels for energy accounts for about 75 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account for 80 to 90 percent of the sector’s total emissions.

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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. Bay Area Air Quality Management District (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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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. 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al.,

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (. yes, this blog will continue). This post originally appeared in that blog.

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Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

It urges: Federal, state and local governments, and the private sector, to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to net zero or below. The International Bar Association (IBA) adopted a Climate Crisis Statement in May of 2020, focusing on the role of lawyers and law associations in addressing climate change.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The more than 133 billion pounds of wasted food annually, worth more than $160 billion, presents opportunities to increase food security, promote resource and energy conservation, and address greenhouse gas emission reduction. In 2015, the United States announced a goal to halve U.S. The world population is predicted to reach 8.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

EU NDC and European Green Deal In 2020, the EU submitted its NDCs before the UNFCCC, on behalf of the EU and its Member States, containing a target of 55% reduction in GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 2030, updating its 2015 commitment of 40% reduction. For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2023

Having in mind this link between the oceans and climate change, it would be natural for the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide a clear picture of States’ obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment in the context of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. cit., §§ 40-41).

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

It is certainly true that the IRA uses “carrots” – principally in the form of tax credits – to incentivize actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. billion for “grants, rebates, contracts, loans” and “other activities” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 29, 2020

Greenhouse gas monitoring – and increasingly climate policy monitoring, meaning the continuous tracking of policies with indicators – has existed since the early 1990s – and is thus a long-standing practice.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The UK is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the coal industry, but its last deep-pit mine closed in 2015. It has enshrined laws requiring all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to reach net zero no later than 2050. He added that the mine did not make sense environmentally or economically.

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