Legal Planet
AUGUST 7, 2023
One tries to combine two lines of precedent to argue that state liability rules were preempted by federal liability rules, but that the federal liability rules themselves were displaced by the Clean Air Act so no basis for liability remains. I don’t expect this argument to win in state court.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. American Trucking Associations. Army Corps of Engineers. Michigan v.
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
In an article about loss of coastal land in Louisiana, Oliver Houck observed that sea level rise might pose a “grim” long-term threat to the coast but had had little effect to date. For instance, Weiss wrote the year after the Superfund law was passed and barely a decade after the Clean Air Act went into effect.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 26, 2024
In addition, a more inclusive approach to EO 12866 meetings could allow for the input of marginalized communities that are already seeing harms from sea level rise and changing patterns of severe weather. In its previous term, the Court upended precedent with the West Virginia v. Now, with the Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 26, 2024
In addition, a more inclusive approach to EO 12866 meetings could allow for the input of marginalized communities that are already seeing harms from sea level rise and changing patterns of severe weather. In its previous term, the Court upended precedent with the West Virginia v. Now, with the Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc.
Law Columbia
AUGUST 31, 2022
The database does not include six Congressional references to sea level rise (such as in appropriations to the Department of Defense to help preparing military bases) that did not explicitly mention climate change.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2017
First, new research has traced to just 90 fossil fuel firms the following percentages of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions, global mean surface temperature (GMST), and global sea level rise (GSL): From 1880 to 2010: GHGs: 57% GMST: 42–50% GSL: 26–32%. From 1980 to 2010: GHGs: 43% GMST: 29–35% GSL: 11–14%.
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