Clean Energy Electricity Paris Agreement Sea Level 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Yet Indonesia’s role in cutting energy emissions is crucial. As an archipelago, Indonesia is at the prey of sea level rise. Jakarta, a city of ten million, is only two feet above sea level. Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.
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Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp. BP p.l.c. ,
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court.
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. .
Law Columbia
JULY 2, 2021
In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the Energy Facilities Siting Board’s approval of a proposal for a new underground electrical transmission line running between substations in the Towns of Sudbury and Hudson. Circuit Decision on Affordable Clean Energy Rule.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Richardson v. Clarno , No. 20CV01920 (Or.
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