Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 24, 2020

Today, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of local governments in support of state and environmental petitioners in American Lung Association v. EPA , the lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan and the dangerously weak replacement rule.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. All this is not to say there is no place for hydrogen in a clean energy future.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. Similarly, other agencies have made significant progress towards implementing the IRA programs they administer.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

EPA also looked at the financial health of the industry, cleanups in the sector, federal and state regulatory requirements governing releases of hazardous substances in the sector, and voluntary practices. 24 non-National Priority List CERCLA sites, and only two of those sites had releases post 1980 and required taxpayer-funded expenditures.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

On August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (or “IRA”), widely hailed as the most ambitious piece of climate legislation in U.S. The bill also has healthcare and prescription drug provisions, makes tax code changes unrelated to climate and energy, and guarantees federal land on- and offshore for oil and gas drilling.)

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

A lot of this is the scale of funding—the two laws will spend money on climate policies at a far higher rate than any previous federal programs—but the laws will also involve the federal government more in climate policy, in a variety of ways. The benefits from energy tax credits tend to flow to Whiter and wealthier populations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This has been particularly true in your home state of California, which historically has set the clean car agenda for the rest of the country because of its waiver under the Clean Air Act to set its own air pollution standards. California is ahead of other states for a number of reasons.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released a request for information (RFI) regarding Section 60103 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , also known as the IRA’s “green bank” provisions. The RFI lists six areas for more specific comments, each of which may be of interest to local governments. .

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

the Departments of Interior and Energy). .; the Departments of Interior and Energy). But the federal government needs help, and I believe we should look to the states to provide such assistance. By 2012, 20 to 25 states had developed state climate plans. Some plans also include adaptation policies and measures.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ESA does not require more, and NMFS did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in concluding that the effects of global climate change on sea ice would endanger the Beringia DPS in the foreseeable future.” The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). It is estimated that governments and private industry must put aside between $300-400bn annually to meet current obligations alone (23). Energy Conservation. Wildlife Management.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2023

Here are 75 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 21 [PaEN] -- Dept.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

KEEP ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. The all of the above approach to clean energy is the principal reason the U.S.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. The all of the above approach to clean energy is the principal reason the U.S. The federal government plays an important role in technological innovation.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

They emphasize that narrow interpretations of statutes prevent “government by bureaucracy supplanting government by the people.” This mandate was challenged by two groups of state governments.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 26, 2020

Since January 2017, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University has been tracking the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to rewrite federal climate change policy and deconstruct climate governance. But these actions are just a few of the many that a Biden administration could take in January 2021 and onward.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. Citing the well-pleaded complaint rule, the court concluded that removal was not appropriate based on federal question jurisdiction because the plaintiffs’ claims did not on their face raise the federal issues of energy, the environment, and national security.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Although this is appropriate and in keeping with the structure of the Clean Air Act, each of the multi-state RTOs like PJM operate a single dispatch. As a result, states will need to coordinate and work closely together to ensure that the individual state plans work well on a regional basis. Comitta, Sen. Santarsiero, Rep.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. The brief is available here.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The court held that the City’s claims were not completely preempted by the Clean Air Act and also was not persuaded by the companies’ argument that the claims necessarily arose under federal common law. The companies argued that even if state law did apply, the Clean Air Act and foreign affairs doctrine would preempt the claims.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The court rejected the argument that a more recently enacted statute governing rate structure conflicted with and preempted the 1980 statute. Briefs Filed in Challenges to ACE Rule and Clean Power Plan Repeal. All of the briefs are available on the case page. American Lung Association v. 19-1140 et al.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2021

If there was any question that the judiciary was a coequal and political branch of government, last Friday after President Biden was wheels up to attend the COP26 Glasgow climate conference, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Environmental Protections Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. 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. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. .

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. Citizens for Clean Energy v. Department of the Interior , No. 4:17-cv-00030 (D. June 3, 2021).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

Read more here>>> A Government-Wide Approach. One week after issuing his first climate executive order, on January 27 President Biden signed an Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which established a number of new offices and set the stage for government-wide prioritization of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time. Meanwhile, in 2021, the case against the Clean Power Plan re-emerged , resulting in the West Virginia v. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. There are two key takeaways from West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. In re Enbridge Energy, LP , Nos. Circuit Decision on Affordable Clean Energy Rule.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. Foster , No. 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. decision Sept. 29, 2017; verdict Oct.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. The court reportedly said the labor and equity provisions could be encompassed within a single subject with the clean energy mandates.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On the domestic front, the head of EPA managed to maneuver the Administration into endorsing federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. He also packed the federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court, with conservative opponents of government regulation.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

Government report on how climate change affects people and places in the United States. Knauss, matches highly qualified graduate students with “hosts” in the legislative and executive branch of government located in the Washington, D.C. This guidance sets guidelines for research security policies across the government.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology holds second meeting of the administration, focused on climate, energy and the environment. White House Office of Science and Technology seeks input about how the federal government can advance equity in science and technology. Scientific Community. ESA and COP26.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Even while the federal government “is creating chaos and uncertainty” that is “bad for business,” she said, “the private sector is moving forward in the right direction.” She particularly noted transformation in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Congress passes stopgap measure to fund the government through Feb. Appropriations: The House of Representatives and the Senate voted to pass a stop-gap funding measure to keep the government funded through Feb. 18, 2022, averting a government shutdown. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Dec.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Another $35 billion goes towards climate solutions research and developing clean energy technologies and jobs. competitiveness in science and technology with China and to develop clean energy technologies to reduce emissions. A new climate-focused national lab will be affiliated with an HBCU. 961 & H.R. Register here.

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