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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. What is the social cost of carbon? SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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DEP Blog: Ten Tools To Take On Climate Change In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Because climate action is a team effort across state government, check other state agencies, too.

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Anticipating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s ESG Disclosure Rules and Guidelines: How to Stay Ahead of the Game

Law and Environment

As more advisory services, investment companies, and public companies have publicized their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , citation, 597 U.S. ­­­ _ (2022), National Federation of Independent Business v. 4, 2023). [3] 3] See Goldberg et al.,

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Climate Change: Is The Answer “Blowin’ in the Wind”?

Acoel

However, that cooperation masks the failure of federal and state governments, and the private sector, to work together to tackle climate change, which likely exacerbated the intensity and destructiveness of that storm. And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying.