Greenhouse Precautionary Principle Regulations 
Legal Planet
JANUARY 8, 2025
The first lesson is one consistent with the pre-existing literature and case studies generally speaking, the most effective policies in driving short-term reductions are a mix of different tools, including subsidies, pricing, and regulation.
Legal Planet
MARCH 17, 2025
In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 13, 2025
Specifically, Zeldin said EPA would reconsider (and presumably revoke) its finding that greenhouse gases “may endanger human health or welfare.” One of the main defenses to those lawsuits is EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. if EPA withdrew from regulating CO2.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Achieving the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels requires urgent and serious steps to reduce greenhouse gas. Shipping currently makes up nearly 3% of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) released worldwide, and those emissions are on track to increase.
Law Columbia
JULY 24, 2025
This includes not only setting and updating robust national climate plans under the Paris Agreement but also regulating private actors and providing support to more vulnerable nations. While states maintain discretion in how they regulate greenhouse gas emissions, this does not exempt them from legal accountability (para.
Law Columbia
APRIL 24, 2023
The first part asks the Court to unpack the State Parties’ obligations to prevent, reduce, and control pollution of the marine environment “caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.” The question is divided into two parts. This will be one of the main questions addressed in the advisory opinion.
Law Columbia
AUGUST 11, 2025
The precautionary principle also received significant validation: while the Court called it both an “approach” and a “principle”, it nevertheless deemed it determinative of the standard of due diligence required under custom and treaties (e.g.
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