Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 40

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Second, it found that DOE had not acted arbitrarily and capriciously by not conducting more localized analysis of where exports would result in increased production. Sierra Club v.

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2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Clean Water Act 40

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. degrees Celsius. Japan, South Korea and China have not signed on to this agreement.

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2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105