Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. EPA and the Supreme Court’s deregulatory trend, state action remains an avenue for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In the wake of West Virginia v.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. But a closer read suggests more sweeping, longer-term implications for incentivizing the development of clean energy projects nationwide. What does this mean for clean energy projects? What is the case about? .

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The very first American trial of a youth climate lawsuit was hardly blockbuster Court TV, but we learned a lot from the proceedings. As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 31, 2022

And so it is with the plethora of lawsuits by states, cities and counties against oil and gas producers claiming catastrophic damages from fossil fuels. Baltimore alleges oil company defendants violated state-laws and concealed dangers associated with their fossil fuel products. There are others. Suncor Energy .

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. by Justin Gundlach. These points are largely undisputed. These points are largely undisputed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). To avoid the worst potential consequences of climate change, we will have to transform the transportation and electric power sectors in tandem.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. It is a climate problem, not a climate solution. Geographic deliverability.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 10, 2022

EPA has now formally restored its waiver under § 209(b) of the Clean Air Act that allows California’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, notwithstanding the preemption of state vehicle emission standards contained in § 209(a) of the CAA. Time to get to work.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 2, 2020

Amidst historically low oil prices and economic shutdowns, fossil fuel companies continue to defend against lawsuits brought by state and local governments claiming climate-change related damages. Do State Nuisance Claims Related to Climate Change Arise Under Federal Law? 1442(a)(1). . San Mateo , pp.

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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 Sabin Center’s collection of congressional references to climate change can be accessed here.

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Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2018

Climate change nuisance litigation is entering a new and dynamic phase. a consolidated case in which Oakland and San Francisco claim that five fossil fuel companies’ production and promotion of fossil fuels constitutes a public nuisance under federal and California common law. By Michael Burger.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The statute points to section 211(o)(1)(H) of the Clean Air Act to define lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions—exactly as was done for the simultaneously passed section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Credit. Clean must mean clean, meaning no polluter loopholes, and no polluter giveaways.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In doing so, the court found itself “in accord with the other courts of appeals, which have unanimously found there is no federal jurisdiction where state or local governments have brought state-law actions against energy companies for conduct relating to climate change.” District of Columbia v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al.,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Despite the generous funding opportunities and holistic flexibilities baked into ACF, confusion around and misinformation about the rule may undermine this much-needed shift away from fossil-fueled trucks and buses.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This production process emits significant air and water pollution with severe health consequences for neighboring communities already bearing the brunt of climate change impacts like sea level rise, severe storms and flooding. . redlining.) Check out how we are fulfilling our commitment at OceanConservancy.org. [1]

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 6, 2014

On June 25, 2013, President Obama delivered a major speech on the topic of climate change. In it he outlined a broad policy agenda aimed at addressing the challenges posed by the changing climate. These facilities account for around 40% of all carbon pollution in the United States.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2025

Supreme Court to shield it from numerous state climate lawsuits filed across the country seeking damages for the harms caused by climate change harms like the historic, supercharged urban fires burning in Los Angeles. So, why on earth wouldnt the polluters behind climate change be expected to pay up? 7401 et seq.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6]

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 31, 2022

EPA ) addressing the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil-fuel powered power plaints. Click here to read the article (begins on p.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Million Agriculture Innovation Program -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Our Streams In Winter - A Look Into The Challenges And Resilience Of Our Waterways Through The Season -- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Will Climate Change Add More Nutrient Pollution To Chesapeake Bay?

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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. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”. Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. It determines the responsibility of previous generations to the future.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. To avoid the same fate as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court in West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

379] The Clean Air Act doesn’t give an industry immunity from pollution regulation just because the industry is on its last legs economically. Even without any new EPA rule, many coal-fired power plants would close due to competition from gas-fired plants and renewables.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). These impacts will only increase as climate change worsens.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

A lot of this is the scale of funding—the two laws will spend money on climate policies at a far higher rate than any previous federal programs—but the laws will also involve the federal government more in climate policy, in a variety of ways. These changes come at a crucial time for the fight against climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The largest contributors to this deadly type of pollution come from human-made emission sources that burn fossil fuels, such as coal-fired power plants and vehicular emissions of diesel and gasoline. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. EPA’s PM 2.5 EPA’s PM 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan. Water supply in several parts of Sri Lanka including its commercial capital Colombo had to be suspended.

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 24, 2020

EPA , the lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan and the dangerously weak replacement rule. The Clean Power Plan was the Obama Administration’s rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants, the nation’s largest stationary source of climate pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

It agreed with settled science that carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels is the major source of greenhouse gases, and that climate change is real. The Good The Supreme Court left the EPA’s overall ability to regulate greenhouse gases intact.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

The case before the Supreme Court is one of a number of lawsuits brought in state court by state and local governments against fossil fuel producers, primarily oil companies. They generally include a claim that producing fossil fuels has created a public nuisance in the form of climate change.

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