category legal Atmosphere Related Topics 
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law ’s latest paper, Permitting CO 2 Pipelines: Assessing the Landscape of Federal and State Regulations , assesses the legal framework for developing CO 2 pipelines to support DAC Hub projects. What are the Legal Barriers to Building CO 2 Pipelines, and How Can They Be Resolved?
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Legal Planet
JANUARY 2, 2023
The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. The post A Dangerous Disruption appeared first on Legal Planet. After that, the sulfur is gone but the CO 2 is still there and heating.)
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
A top-down approach begins with atmospheric emissions as recorded by sensors or satellites which can then, by a variety of methods, be attributed to geographic regions or particular categories of emitters. The post Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies appeared first on Legal Planet. Download as PDF.
The Energy Law Blog
JANUARY 15, 2020
Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. The court found that “there was no proof offered at trial that established material misrepresentations or omissions contained in any of ExxonMobil’s public disclosures that satisfy the applicable legal standard.”
Environment Next
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
In a case that could open the door to more citizen suits to enforce mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act—a category of enforcement actions that has so far failed to gain much traction—the 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion broadly upholding a non-profit organization’s standing. The 10 th Circuit disagreed.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not. What is disputed is whether it is just or legal to convict Ward of felony crimes for acting peacefully and responsibly to prevent greater harm to the climate.”
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