Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will. the Paris Agreement’s nationally determined contributions or “opt outs” under CITES or the IWC). The Global Pact could change this. Daniel Bodansky.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

The picture under the Biden Administration has been a dramatic reversal, enacting lots of environmental protections and starting to spend tens of billions of dollars. The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Some of us may have repressed the memory of Trump’s war against environmental protection in his previous term in office. As you can see below, Trump’s campaign to purge America of environmental regulations — particularly those impacting the fossil fuel industry — was stern and unrelenting. 2018 May. December.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Unlike Trump, he is using environmental statutes for their intended purpose of protecting the environment. That’s easier than turning them inside out to eliminate environmental protection. He took the US back into the Paris Agreement, and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030.

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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. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants’ environmental assessment understated traffic levels as well as carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency on January 19, 2021, Renewable Fuels Association moved to voluntarily dismiss its petitions for review challenging the exemptions in the Tenth Circuit and the D.C. The appellate court agreed with the court below that the lawsuit raised nonjusticiable political questions. Reynolds v. State , No.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers. Republican National Committee , No. 3:17 -cv-00123 (W.D. million rate increase.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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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.

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