Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. EPA and the Supreme Court’s deregulatory trend, state action remains an avenue for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In climate change cases, the defendants are the oil and gas companies.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 7, 2023
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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Law Columbia
AUGUST 31, 2022
Going back to 1978 and through this month, Congress has acknowledged climate change in a total of 87 enactments, as shown by a database just posted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The Sabin Center’s collection of congressional references to climate change can be accessed here.
Capaccio
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The EPA is proposing stronger regulations to the Risk Management Plan (RMP) program to protect environmental justice communities and against climate change Risk Management Program (RMP). . Climate Change . Climate change is expected to increase the occurrence of natural hazards, which present concern for RMP facilities.
Capaccio
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The EPA is proposing stronger regulations to the Risk Management Plan (RMP) program to protect environmental justice communities and against climate change Risk Management Program (RMP). . Climate Change . Climate change is expected to increase the occurrence of natural hazards, which present concern for RMP facilities.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
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.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
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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