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What Next for the Climate Tort Cases?

Legal Planet

First, they will argue that they can’t be held liable for failing to disclose their knowledge of the causes of climate change because there was uncertainty about the topic and it was controversial. In their efforts to get the cases into federal court, the oil companies argued that federal law bars state lawsuits about climate change.

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The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy

Legal Planet

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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Environmentalism and the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

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. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant.

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Can Fossil Fuel Companies Be Held Liable for Climate Change?

Law Columbia

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders.

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Roundup: Biden Administration Revamps Procedures for Reviewing Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

Changes to discounting in cost-benefit analyses could mean considering more of the long-term benefits of regulations that slow climate change, and greater attention to regulations’ distributional effects can support stronger protections targeted at structurally marginalized communities. Gina Raimondo and Relentless, Inc v.

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Roundup: Biden Administration Revamps Procedures for Reviewing Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

Changes to discounting in cost-benefit analyses could mean considering more of the long-term benefits of regulations that slow climate change, and greater attention to regulations’ distributional effects can support stronger protections targeted at structurally marginalized communities. Gina Raimondo and Relentless, Inc v.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017).

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