Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
In 1965, scientists sent LBJ a memo mentioning the risks of climate change. Conventional pollution controls would have been seen as transition measures until the shift to clean energy, so the Clean Air Act would have been written differently. I magine if history had been a little different.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Law and Environment
JANUARY 27, 2022
Of course, the EEI did so to ensure that the Clean Air Act continues to act as a shield against private tort actions over carbon emissions, but still. It’s difficult to call this Court conservative. In its lack of respect for precedent, it’s arguably the most radical Court we’ve seen, at least in some time.
Law and Environment
MARCH 10, 2022
EPA has now formally restored its waiver under § 209(b) of the Clean Air Act that allows California’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, notwithstanding the preemption of state vehicle emission standards contained in § 209(a) of the CAA. My friend J.B.
Environment, Law, and History
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Six years later, the Court decided its first air pollution case. Notably, these cases came during the conservative Lochner era when the Court was hardly known for its liberalism. It was ended by the Supreme Court, which held that the then-new Clean Water Act took over the field of interstate water pollution in lieu of court-made rules.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2024
EPA , the Supreme Court struck down the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. Fourth, unlike the Clean Power Plan, this regulation is not just about greenhouse gases and climate change.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 5, 2019
This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe. We know that, mostly as a result of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. By Michael B.
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