Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. Market impacts of a nuclear power plant closure,” American Economic Journal, Applied Economics , 2016, p. But Breakthrough Energy calculated that the cost of new transmission, distribution, and storage would be $1.5 trillion. [25]

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Electricity Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2019 100

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The plaintiffs contended that environmental impact statements (EISs) from 2014 and 2016 should have been supplemented with new information about the forest’s natural regeneration and that the biomass plant should have been considered in the same EISs as the logging project. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act.

2019 40

2019 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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2020 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40