A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is the social cost of carbon? SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year. 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…”.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

from Chapter 25 of the National Climate Assessment Although some impacts of climate change may be positive as with carbon enrichment leading to greater net primary productivity in pastures, opposite forces often act at the same time–as with the reductions in forage nutritional quality that result alongside increased warming.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 21, 2024

In this consideration of Danone’s motion to dismiss the complaint, some are troubled that the court began with this “factual background” saying that in its order, it is taken as true for the purposes of this motion, “Human activities have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere, driving climate change.

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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. That approach would have required a shift from coal to energy sources that emit less carbon dioxide. International license.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2022

” Disclosure of internal carbon price : Under the proposed rule, registrants would be required to disclose any carbon price used internally. In addition to describing the nature of each physical risk, registrants would also need to identify the location (by zip code) of at-risk properties, processes, or operations. .”

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Circuit and Supreme Court; and. * Gerald Torres , a professor at Cornell Law School whose recent work has focused on interactions between social movements, litigation, and legislative change. Lorenzen , an attorney at Crowell & Moring LLP who has led the coalition of petitioners challenging the Clean Power Plan before the D.C.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

In a 2022 press release introducing New York’s then-unprecedented Climate Superfund bill, one of the bill’s sponsors directly stated that the bill was inspired by source attribution research (specifically, research on carbon dioxide and methane emissions attributable to fossil fuel and cement producers).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Footnote Disclosures would require companies to disclose in their financial statements: All positive and negative impacts of climate-related events, such as severe weather events and other natural conditions, including flooding, drought, wildfires, extreme temperatures, and sea-level rise, exceeding 1 percent of the related line item.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

Million Grant To The Energy Innovation Center Institute In Pittsburgh [PaEN] -- WHYY: As Sea Levels Rise, Philly, Camden At Risk Of Being Inundated With Raw Sewage, Study Finds -- WHYY: Philadelphians Missing Out On Flood Insurance Discounts, The City Could Cash In Next Year -- Scranton Times: Scranton Nears $2.7

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Some of what is to come may be provocative and contrarian; so, take a breath —but not too deep because the air is full of carbon dioxide. Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Some of what is to come may be provocative and contrarian; so, take a breath —but not too deep because the air is full of carbon dioxide. Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Rick Heede combined publicly available records about extracting and producing carbon-intensive materials with scientific data about the amount of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases released into the atmosphere from manufacturing and burning each of these products. percent of total emissions. Licker et al.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

He's a professor of energy policy and economics and the director of energy law and policy. And in summary, his testimony says, one, joining RGGI will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from Pennsylvania's power generation sector and will also contribute to improved air quality.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Million In Darby, Upland, Upper Providence Twps -- Western PA Conservancy Newsletter: Volunteers Plant Trees, Federal Infrastructure Law Great News, Fallingwater Winter Walks -- Dept. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

billion to combat sea level rise. SB 201 is an effort to overturn a state law regulating carbon dioxide pipelines. Also in Washington, the title of Initiative 211 is “Prohibit Carbon Tax Credit Trading,” which pretty much says it all. billion for safe drinking water and groundwater, $1.5 South Dakota.

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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. 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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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. direct temperature stress, ocean acidification, sea level rise, extreme events, and alterations to food chains).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Petitioners also argue that the potential economic and political ramifications of the standards are so great that EPA’s rule violates the so-called “major questions doctrine,” a relatively new and quickly evolving concept in administrative law. EPA , 142 S.

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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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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The SCC Estimate assigned a dollar value on estimated global damages caused by every additional ton of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere by using economic models that capture the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, changes to agricultural productivity, water shortages, property damages from increased flood risk, etc.

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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. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun. 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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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Actual Scientists Say Sea-Level Rise Is A Threat To Tangier Island, Virginia. DOE head says carbon dioxide not primary cause of climate change. . DHS waives environmental laws to speed border wall construction. Meet the fossil fuel all-stars Trump has appointed to his administration. 2017.06.14. 2017.06.14.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld EPA’s authority “to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from powerplants” (see, for example, Am. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

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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

carbon budgets in international agreements and state or regional GHG emissions reduction targets); and/or (2) assessing the project's potential impacts on climate change indicators (e.g., ocean acidification, sea-level rise, or storm events). efficiency metrics (e.g.,

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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. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 145. 21-8001 (D.C.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D.

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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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