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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be the highest priority, but that won’t be enough to prevent severe impacts, some of which are already occurring. Toxic sites – The remediation of contaminated sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and other programs should reflect future flood risk.

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The Second Circuit Takes on the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution Provision and Climate Change

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Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, and that this authority may prove central to addressing climate change under the statute. This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Alternatively, the U.S. See 16 U.S.C.