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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

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Permit conditions – Several statutes require permit holders to have and implement plans to prepare for extreme events – e.g., Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Oil Pollution Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

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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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Congress has no authority to directly regulate emissions on foreign soil, nor is there any practical or politically viable scenario in which it would. It only has to “speak directly” to the issue of international air pollution that may harm the United States. But it need not do so to displace the federal common law of foreign affairs.