Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

Briefly, in 2016 a local environmental group, Project Monterey County, sponsored a voter initiative–titled “Measure Z”–that qualified for the local ballot and was enacted by Monterey County voters by a 56% margin.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

From pipelines destabilized by melting permafrost to power line-sparked wildfires exacerbated by drought, the impacts of climate change are affecting infrastructure across the U.S. Federal courts have repeatedly held that federal agencies must consider climate change in their NEPA reviews.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. The rule is not unprecedented.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities. At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — April 14, 2022.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. This may also serve as a model for how to attract and direct smart, climate-focused finance.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate. There’s a better way forward.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Electricity nerds might be writing off the prospect of new gas plant contracts because of the forthcoming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations (CER). One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. .

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In 2017, environmental advocates and some states like New York who have long been concerned with the climate change impacts associated with new liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipelines had reason for optimism. Northern Access 2016 Project. to FERC’s order approving the Northern Access 2016 Project. FERC’s decision in the.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them. If the Commission detects “ambition gaps” (i.e.,

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Acoel

MAY 11, 2022

They also note that carbon released from disturbed peatlands represents about 5% of global anthropomorphic greenhouse gas emissions. Given this country’s differing views on climate change, new legislation to address peatland carbon emissions is likely to be “bogged down” for the foreseeable future. appeared first on ACOEL.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

San Mateo County Community College District (2016) 1 Cal.5th My September 22, 2016 post on the case can be found here. CEQA analysis of GHG/climate change impacts is different – and difficult. My August 8, 2014 post on the case can be found here. CEQA’s “subsequent review” rules are elucidated.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The past two years have yielded unprecedented executive and regulatory engagement in the climate change discussion. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. international climate change agreement. to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. jointly committed. free market.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

The Paris Olympics has made an ambitious climate pledge this year, to halve its carbon footprint relative to previous Summer Games. For comparison, the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics emitted 3.3 million tonnes and 3.6 million tonnes of CO2 respectively, according to the organising committees. million tonnes of carbon.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

The SAFE Vehicle Rule proposes changes to EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and DOT’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for light duty vehicles in model years (MY) 2021 through 2025. The rule will substantially increase vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 9, 2023

And lastly, the White House issues new climate accounting guidelines for environmental impact statements. The guidance directs agencies to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions in dollar terms, using an accounting aid known as the social cost of carbon. By the Numbers. EPA Delays PFAS Drinking Water Rules. But warning: it is a large file.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing May 1 on cryptocurrency and climate change. At the hearing, Robert Altenburg, PennFuture’s Senior Director for Energy and Climate presented an overview of cryptocurrency mining in Pennsylvania and its environmental impacts.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure (2016) 6 Cal.App.5th Conclusions and Implications The Opinion is a mixed bag for CEQA practitioners and the regulated community. Nor does our ruling require the City to evaluate the Gemdale project’s greenhouse gas emissions under any specific approach.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Finally, in recent years advocates of dormant Commerce Clause principles have advanced a third prong of the constitutional standard: that state and local governments should not be permitted to regulate “extraterritorially”–i.e., beyond their political borders. In North Dakota v. Heydinger , for example, the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. 636 fossil fuel lobbyists were part of official country delegations to the last United Nations climate negotiations ( UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Conference of Parties 27, or COP27 ).

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is getting a lot of attention in climate debates. There was even a “Methane Day” last Tuesday at the climate conference in Glasgow. Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. Rice farm, Williams, California.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

As climate change intensifies, droughts lengthen and aquifers deplete, there will likely be more demand for irrigation infrastructure. We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP. water resources. 4 This report builds on Payments for Pollution in two important ways.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Sabin Center submitted an amicus brief supporting this claim and explaining how climate change attribution and detection research can be used to assess the effect of project-level emissions on sea ice declines within the habitat ranges of these species. square meters of September sea-ice.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. Innovative regulation and incentive programs can facilitate the development and implementation of many of these methods, and these will be explored in a future blog post.

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