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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

The California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s determination that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 required the Delta Stewardship Council to adopt performance measure targets as legally enforceable regulations in the long-term management plan for the Delta to achieve certain objectives of the Act.

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Using Attribution Science to Evaluate the Effects of Oil and Gas Emissions on Endangered and Threatened Species

Law Columbia

However, detection and attribution methods can also be used to quantify the relationship between a specific GHG contribution and specific consequences of climate change, such as temperature and sea level rise. There are many other pathways through which climate change can affect these species (e.g., USFS (9th Cir.

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Policy News: October 8, 2021

ESA

Most notably, the US Fish and Wildlife Service fined BP $100 million under the Migratory Bird Treaty after the 2009 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This legal opinion contradicted decades of precedent under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

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