Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are several problems with this false dichotomy: Entrepreneurs behind private startups like Make Sunset are wildly different from the scientists and environmental law experts who study geoengineering. They shouldn’t be grouped together as a side. But no one thinks doing geoengineering is a good idea, do they?

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

“This is a holistic picture of the current state of knowledge about these different techniques and what we need to do before we can make a decision about whether to deploy them,” says Romany Webb, an author of both reports and an expert in environmental law at Columbia Law School in New York.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And third, in a few key design elements it is modeled on the provisions to cut CFCs in the Montreal Protocol – the only international environmental regime that has achieved a socio-technical transformation of remotely the scale required for greenhouse gases. Targeting fossil fuels not emissions.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

But an emergency declaration is not a magic wand that gives Presidents a blank check. EPA has made a formal finding, based on an exhaustive review of the scientific evidence, that greenhouse gases endanger human life and welfare both within the United States and globally. The Environmental Protection Agency. 50 USC 1701-1707).That

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