Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories. Burning fossil fuels for energy accounts for about 75 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account for 80 to 90 percent of the sector’s total emissions.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law today released an Electric Resilience Toolkit to support policymakers and stakeholders working on issues around electric sector regulation and climate resilience planning.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

Going back to 1978 and through this month, Congress has acknowledged climate change in a total of 87 enactments, as shown by a database just posted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The database collects Congress’s references to climate change, along with related terms and concepts like global warming and greenhouse gases.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”. If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort. How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise? What about rainfall and extreme weather?

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Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Under the existing ESA regulations, FWS and NMFS are not required to designate critical habitat if such designation would not be beneficial to the species. The Court’s answer to that question – and in particular, its interpretation of “essential” – could have important implications for this portion of the ESA regulations.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2023

Having in mind this link between the oceans and climate change, it would be natural for the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide a clear picture of States’ obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment in the context of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change.

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Capaccio

JULY 25, 2023

Metrics and Targets – Companies will disclose their targets and metrics, as well as those mandated by regulations and laws, concerning sustainability-related risks and opportunities. Physical risks can be either acute, such as floods or storms, or chronic, like rising sea levels.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Those impacts—sometimes irksome, sometimes devastating—are increasingly obvious, and the causal mechanisms that connect them to the emission of greenhouse gases increasingly well understood. EPA , the decision in which the Supreme Court rejected EPA’s arguments for not treating greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. (For law, but it can guide the use of existing authority.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Dr Niles had recently completed work looking at laws and regulations pertaining to California’s water resources, and we realized that a similar review had yet to be completed for the Northeast United States. At the state level, there is adoption of climate-related policies across the United States.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

These new approaches include asserting new legal theories to creatively applying long-recognized doctrine rooted in the common law. In an unusual approach to an environmental law issue, they have brought claims grounded in the Constitution and the public trust doctrine. Some applaud these novel approaches to environmentalism.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Columbia Center for Climate Change Law. In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

In March 2022, the SEC proposed amendments to Regulations S-X that would both enhance and standardize public companies’ climate-related disclosures (“Climate-Related Disclosures”). SEC Final Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules Less Burdensome Than Expected , Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. Background. 4, 2023). [3]

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S.

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Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

that EPA could regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. auto sector carbon emissions) was to address the less-direct causal chain between atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea level rise in Massachusetts. Supreme Court in holding, in the landmark decision Massachusetts v.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 2012: “In an increasingly carbon- constrained world, our existing environmental laws and regulatory process no longer achieve their underlying goals of long-term ecosystem conservation. We have little time left to create a practical path to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.” sea level rise.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

The SEC also required registrants to address the material effects of compliance with environmental laws and describe their human capital resources to the extent material to an understanding of the business. Her key takeaways were (1) “[t]here is no general requirement under the securities laws to reveal all material information.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. Greg Abbott signed HB 2127 — known as the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act — which bars cities and counties from passing regulations that are stricter than state ones.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. South Dakota Federal Court Granted Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcement of Laws Targeting Pipeline Protesters. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

A discussion of ESG disclosures, and what the industry may expect from these other financial regulators on ESG matters under the Biden-Harris Administration, will be the subject of an upcoming Advisory. * * * * *. Financial Regulators."[[N: N: Addressing Climate as a Systemic Risk: A call to action for U.S.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

rejecting the claims brought by the New York Attorney General (“NYAG”) that Exxon had violated the Martin Act, the strongest securities fraud law in the nation. The NYAG alleged that Exxon gave false and misleading statements to investors that climate regulations did not pose a significant risk of. stranded assets. over a dozen.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In its regulatory impact analysis for the supplemental proposal, EPA included a sensitivity analysis detailing a revised methodology and new estimates for social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHGs), including carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide. Josh is a regular contributor to the Law & The Environment and Energy Climate Counsel blogs.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% All research is governed, mostly through normal processes of peer review, research-program management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project is controversial due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its location on the North Slope of Alaska, which happens to be the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. direct temperature stress, ocean acidification, sea level rise, extreme events, and alterations to food chains).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The cities also have filed a motion to amend their complaints to withdraw federal common law public nuisance claims that they added after the district court denied remand.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

. * * * * *. In the coming weeks, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) will reveal its plan for revising the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations and guidance for analyzing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. ocean acidification, sea-level rise, or storm events). N: See, e.g., id.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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