A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

March for Climate Justice in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. In just over a month, the most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed will decide the fate of global climate action. Bangladesh has said it can reduce emissions a lot more if it gets money from rich nations to do so. By Lou Del Bello.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While the CRC rejected the youth petitioners’ claim as inadmissible, it found that each State has duties to address climate harm outside its own territory, and therefore can be held responsible for the negative impact of its carbon emissions on the rights of children within and outside its territory. In Neubauer, et al. In Leghari v.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. In Canada, the federal government passed the Act to implement its commitments. The federal government argued that it has the authority to address issues that are national in scope.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2021, courts worldwide further defined governments’ and companies’ duty of care in relation to climate change, as well as a governments’ extraterritorial responsibility for climate harm. National courts advance climate mitigation pushing governments towards increased action. See an analysis of the decision here.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the port city of Gwadar has triggered a debate on the direction of the country’s energy sector. He also stated that the country would increase support for low-carbon energy in developing countries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect. degrees Celsius.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On September 20, 2021, the German environmental organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) filed two actions against the automakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz for refusing to tighten their carbon emissions target and stop producing fossil fuel fuel-emitting cars by 2030 ( DUH v. BMW and DUH v. Mercedes-Benz ). Mercedes-Benz emitted 118.5

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. 37-2019-00053964-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. 37-2019-00053679-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. Morena United v. BP p.l.c. ,

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

In 2019, the court dismissed almost all of the companies’ claims, except for a single defamation claim and a related claim under California’s Unfair Competition Law arising from allegations related to a single set of statements. argued that the agreements and related arrangements conflicted with and were an obstacle to U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. In the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s 2019 issuance of a presidential permit for the U.S.-Canada Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. World Bank President David Malpass , appointed in 2019 by climate-denying President Trump, damaged that organization’s credibility even further this fall by refusing, in a public forum, to acknowledge that human activities cause climate change.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Federal Court Denied Motions to Dismiss Challenges to 2019 Presidential Permit for Keystone XL. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe. No April in Paris.

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