Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Originally intended, as the name suggests, to protect investments in politically unstable nations, this mechanism has morphed into a tool for corporations to challenge national policies (including environmental protections) in international arbitration tribunals against sovereign nations.

Environmental Protection 40

Environmental Protection Precautionary Principle Sustainable Development 2002 40

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

But Breakthrough Energy calculated that the cost of new transmission, distribution, and storage would be $1.5 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. trillion. [25] 26] Local community and environmental opposition to transmission is a national and international phenomenon.

Electricity 100

Electricity Renewable Energy 2019 Nuclear Power 100

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.”

2020 40

2020 Climate Change Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 40

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. The court dismissed the proceedings 11 days after the effective date of the U.S. West Virginia v. 15-1363 et al. Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet as acting administrator of NOAA.

2019 40

2019 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40