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Corporate Climate Disclosure Rule Could Make the World a Little Less Dangerous

Union of Concerned Scientists

The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories. Finally, UCS endorsed the Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2021 and testified before Congress on the risks climate change posed to the US financial sector.

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Spaceflight and the Environment: NASA’s NEPA Process

Vermont Law

Congress enacted the. There are several categories of actions that NASA would not need conduct a full NEPA analysis, unless extraordinary circumstances arise. Hunter Sutherland is currently a 2L at Vermont Law School and is the Editor-in-Chief of Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Vol. by Hunter Sutherland.

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Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court

The Energy Law Blog

1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” Do State Nuisance Claims Related to Climate Change Arise Under Federal Law? the district court found that the Plaintiffs’ claims supported federal question jurisdiction because those state-law claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.”

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A 133 Billion Pound Burden—Who’s Doing the Heavy Lifting?

Vermont Law

Good samaritan food laws across the country provide liability protection for those who donate food. Next to paper, food waste is the second largest category sent to landfills—it accounts for 18% of the waste stream. Good Samaritan laws are part of the U.S. Sarah Munger. Yet paying customers could sue for negligence.

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DOJ Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Precedent-Setting Criminal Wage-Fixing Case

Arnold Porter

N:In re High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation 2015 WL 5159441 (N.D. 2, 2015).]] and in October 2019, Doha Mekki, then Counsel to the AAG, testified before Congress about the harms to competition in the labor market and the DOJ’s response.[[N: 19, 2018).]]

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U.S. Supreme Court v. EPA Climate Rule

Smith Enviorment

In 2015, EPA proposed CO2 emission limits for new power plants based on a combination of the use of high efficiency processes and carbon capture technology. But when EPA has set a standard for new sources of a pollutant, Section 111(d) allows EPA to direct states to set performance standards for existing sources in the same category.

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Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach

Vermont Law

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. . emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. million short tons [4.8