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Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
We are already seeing the depletion of the ice caps and rising sea levels. Framework Convention on Climate Change : This is the convention behind the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2015) and behind the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Sponsored Content.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
The Second Circuit rejected the claim that the renewable energy solicitations exceeded the limited authority granted to states with respect to wholesale sales of electricity under the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
According to the IPCC, global emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and IEA research shows it can be done. The US has pledged to cut its emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030—though we have yet to secure the policies to deliver on that goal.
A Greener Life
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
It was reported in January that a developer had filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court challenging the City of Santa Rosa’s law requiring appliances in new homes of three stories or less to use electricity rather than natural gas. The developer previously filed a lawsuit challenging a natural gas ban in the Town of Windsor.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp. BP p.l.c. ,
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court.
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