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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be the highest priority, but that won’t be enough to prevent severe impacts, some of which are already occurring. Here are twelve ways the law can help society cope with these impacts. The Conservation Law Foundation is pushing these requirements in lawsuits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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The Second Circuit Takes on the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution Provision and Climate Change

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On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. The opinion and other case materials are available here.) Alternatively, the U.S.