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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

Law Columbia

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. This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe.

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CRES Forum Climate Policy Directives for Legislators, Policymakers, the Press, and the Public

Cresforum

KEEP ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. Conservatives have overseen some of the most enduring legacies of American environmental policy.

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CRES Forum Climate Policy Directives for Legislators, Policymakers, the Press, and the Public

Cresforum

Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. Conservatives have overseen some of the most enduring legacies of American environmental policy. KEEP ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS.

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

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, and that this authority may prove central to addressing climate change under the statute. This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Alternatively, the U.S.