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An Uncommon Dialogue: All We are Saying, is Give Peace a Chance
Those of a certain age will remember this plaintive, kumbaya-seeking line from John Lennon’s Vietnam War protest song. Naïve, perhaps, but an Uncommon Dialogue process initiated thorough Stanford’s...
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HAS THE TIME COME FOR A GREENHOUSE GAS NAAQS? LAW STUDENTS WILL ARGUE THE...
One thing that is clear from the 2020 election: the Senate will remain closely divided, with slim majority control to be determined by the two January Senate runoff races in Georgia. President Elect...
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Combating Climate Change with the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution...
As the key staffing decisions and priority policy agendas for President-elect Joseph R. Biden begin to take shape, the questions of when and how the administration will act on his campaign’s climate...
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Showerheads: Untangling the Outgoing Administration’s Last Attack on Energy...
Regulatory trackers from Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, and the New York Times identify over 100 rule changes from the outgoing Trump administration that could increase greenhouse gas...
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Battling Over Battlegrounds: Climate Torts Return to the Supreme Court
The brawl over climate tort liability has returned, again, to the U.S. Supreme Court. In its first skirmish in 2011, the Court in Connecticut v. American Electric Power swept the board by declaring...
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President Biden Pulls the Plug on Keystone XL — Let’s Make Sure It Sets the...
Last week, President Biden hit the ground running on environmental policy, issuing an Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis....
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What a Difference a Day Makes
Co-authored by Brian Rosenthal and Timothy WebsterOn Day One, the 46th President of the United States signaled his focus on climate, the environment, and energy in executive orders, official...
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A FLORID (AND POSSIBLY SIGNIFICANT?) ACE DISSENT
On January 19, 2021, the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision on the Trump EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. American Lung Assn. v. EPA, No. 19-1140. The ACE rule was the Trump EPA’s...
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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane….It’s a Drone!
As previously reported, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) are focused on meeting their...
View ArticleAN INVITATION TO ACOEL MEMBERS: A TOOL TO SUGGEST TO YOUR CLIENTS AND FRIENDS...
Climate is clearly an early priority of the Biden Administration. The array and breadth of executive orders surely demonstrates the vast power of the Federal bureaucracy to achieve reductions in...
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