Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Law Politics 
Legal Planet
AUGUST 18, 2022
Production and combustion of fossil fuels imposes enormous costs on society, which the industry doesn’t pay for. One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. A more promising alternative might be a clean-up tax on the fossil fuel industry.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
Last year’s UN climate talks, while criticized for certain shortcomings , brought into sharp focus the need for robust legal frameworks to transition from fossil fuels. It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions.
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Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice — Circle of Blue. If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 Eric Holcomb has signed a law regulating the underground storage of carbon dioxide, the Northwest Indiana Times reports. In the News.
Legal Planet
MAY 9, 2022
Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” ” More precisely, they ban state investment or contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuel companies. It’s not clear which firms are supposed to go on the state’s blacklist.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. have filed more than twenty cases seeking damages from fossil fuel companies for climate harms.
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. In the Niger River Delta, the company was responsible for an average of 2,976 spills a week between 1976 to 1991, on the land of the Ogoni people. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Indeed, EPA still retains the ability to set strong standards that curtail carbon pollution at the scale, speed, and rigor required.
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