Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

Part 1 focused on discussions on applicable law, and the no-harm rule. Vanuatu and the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) asserted that these legal consequences are governed by the general law of State responsibility. Part 3 focuses on the legal consequences of causing significant harm and reparations.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Planning law has proven to be a useful tool for climate activists seeking to block or challenge new fossil fuel developments. Ireland has been a particular victim of this latter problem, with developers citing concerns over current planning laws as a reason for delays in constructing onshore wind farms, among other facilities.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

In the EIS, STB acknowledged that increased oil production was a foreseeable result of the project, and included estimates of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to the combustion of fuels refined from the crude oil transported on the line. Most of these NEPA decisions entail mixed questions of law and fact.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 7, 2025

Question (a) is concerned with obligations of States “to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases”. 421): attribution, responsibility for cumulative harms, and causation.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.

Law

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. Ethanol accounts for over 40% of fuel used in Brazil’s vehicles, making it a key component of the country’s renewable energy strategy. GW, and solar capacity surpassed 25.5

2025

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Bridging the Gap: Ensuring a Just Transition for Rural Communities in the Clean Energy Revolution by Olivia Moulton As we begin transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we must be mindful of the disproportionate effects that the existing energy system has had on certain communities.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For 72 - 2.5

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise. Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. judge-made) law.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Ecojustice and Environmental Defence have uncovered that greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s exported oil, gas, and coal ballooned to record levels in 2023.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

laws governing atmospheric methane removal (AMR) via soil amendments. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas, with each ton of methane emitted trapping approximately 80 times more heat in the earths atmosphere than a ton of carbon dioxide over a 20-year timescale. law, especially federal environmental law.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2025

Greenhouse gas (GHG) footprinting has been the industry’s main yardstick to date. Capital assets are also implicated in the vast majority of corporate greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2%

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Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. Some new regulations are meant to make the industry more accountable. While the E.U. are moving more slowly.

Upcycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

cases challenging fossil fuel companies for decades of climate disinformation remain stalled, tied up by the defendants in procedural wrangling that prevents them from being heard on their merits, delaying justice for affected communities. Yet, progress often feels frustratingly slow. In the U.S., in the absence of federal leadership.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

; Regional Trail Workshop Mini-Grants -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: $60 Million In Trail Projects In Manayunk, Chester, Camden In Limbo Under Federal Scrutiny -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Summer Fun For All Ages Continues At Pittsburgh Parks -- WITF: House Passes Bill To Lift Near-Total Ban On Sunday Hunting New Federal Administration -- EPA To Repeal (..)

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The primary reason for this is because of developments in attribution science where impacts of disastrous climatic events like heat waves can be attributed to climate change and further to a specific actors based on their percentage contribution to the global stock of Green House Gases greenhouse gases (GHGs). In County of Multnomah v.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables) too slowly or too quickly. Mitigation targets are to be as ambitious as possible, informed by a nation’s current and cumulative historical greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, its capacity to contribute to mitigation measures, and other national circumstances (e.g.

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 4, 2025

As climate disasters strain state budgets, a growing number of lawmakers want fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by their greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full story from Grist.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

of global greenhouse gas emissionsdouble the amount coming from aviation and shipping. War fuels the climate crisis and gas (and other dirty fossil fuels) fuel war. Among the most cited environmental effects of war include deforestation, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. In 2023, the DOD distributed 79.5

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Stream Evaluation Reports In Berks, Clinton, Forest, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lycoming, Pike, Potter, Tioga, Westmoreland Counties -- DEP Notice It Reorganized And Rescinded Water Program Technical Guidance, Permit (..)

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

APRIL 14, 2025

As the physical and economic harms of climate change accumulate, corporate managers have faced increasing pressure to reduce their companies greenhouse gas emissions and adapt their businesses to climate-related risks. Broadly, fiduciary duties arise when one person entrusts another with discretion over their financial affairs.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

PJMs market design is creating a windfall for polluting fossil fuel sources, inflating utility costs, and continuing to slow the process of deploying new clean generation and storage resources. If PJM is unwilling to address these access issues, we believe all options should remain on the table, including leaving PJM.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

President-elect Trump has nominated Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to be US Energy Secretary, confirming the fossil fuel industrys outsized and undue influence in shaping and implementing the Trump Administrations agenda. The human-caused, fossil fuel-driven, Climate Crisis is here. Here are the facts.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. The Supreme Court explicitly held in Massachusetts v.

2009

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Patrick Cicero, former PA Consumer Advocate and counsel to the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project also participated in the briefing. EDF said PJM could add 12.2 Click Here for Routh’s presentation slides. Read more here. Click Here for Cicero’s presentation slides. Click Here for a recording of the briefing. 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2025

Words matter because precision is importantat least in journalism, policy, and law. I recall advising that our reporters and producers employ the phrase climate crisis to communicate the immense stakes of the problem to the audience despite the slow nature of greenhouse gas emissions produced over several decades. We were hardly alone.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

Without specifying the context, the statement The risks of addressing climate change are too large could justify almost any decision from reinforcing a bridge to withstand extreme heat to ignoring greenhouse gas emissions because of the financial losses that the fossil fuel industry would incur. What is Best Available Science?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

This administration's actions directly contradict EPA's own scientific assessments on human health risks, most notably regarding asbestos , mercury , and greenhouse gases. Law ( 42 U.S.C. EPA's research provides the scientific basis for its rulemaking, stakeholder needs, and other key decisions.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The latest auction resulted in this generation mix —with 67% of the generation in PJM being from fossil fuels, with gas being the largest source. The budget bill is also going to increase greenhouse gas emissions and that's where federal policies may be the most damaging. Data Centers So now we come to A.I. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

While the ruling is advisory in nature and not legally binding, it carries significant weight and will shape international law, national policymaking, and courtroom strategy for years to come. The Court recognizes climate change as a human rights issue The ICJ’s opinion decisively connects climate change to international human rights law.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

At a recent Columbia Law School colloquium, jointly sponsored by the Sabin Center and the Millstein Center, participants posed a foundational question: How do corporate law standards of fiduciary duty relate to what scientists call the climate emergency? [1] This means that the leaders of U.S. 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The EPA requires new trucks to emit fewer greenhouse gases and health-harming pollutants than existing models. UCS has also worked for many years to clean up trucking pollution, and our work now encompasses other parts of the freight system. California has passed rules that target the same pollutants, but go beyond federal requirements.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

It does not seek to discuss every aspect of Trumps EOs, nor to answer every question about the lawfulness of various provisions, nor to set out the exact mechanics for whats to come. However, aspects of Justice40 and the Biden administration’s focus on disadvantaged communities are embedded in federal laws and programs.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Data Centers Set For Big Expansion In PA, Some Ask, At What Cost? -- PA Capital-Star: Energy And Tech Companies Said They’re Investing $90 Billion In PA, Fossil Fuel Projects Make Up Largest Category -- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: Many Projects Credited To A.I. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Conservation

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. That court ruled that the fossil fuel company plaintiffs had failed to establish their legal authority (i.e., “standing”) to bring the action.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase. This blatant attempt to do an end-run around scientific evidence deserves to fail.

Fossil Fuels