The Second Circuit dismissed New York City's climate suit because the Clean Air Act governs the regulation of domestic emissions and foreign concerns caution against judicial intervention in regulating foreign...more
The Biden administration's Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad ("Executive Order") expands upon the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order No. 3395 and indefinitely suspends the federal...more
2/3/2021
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Climate Change ,
Department of the Interior ,
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Executive Orders ,
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Moratorium ,
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Oil & Gas ,
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ,
Regulatory Reform
The private sector is increasingly the target of climate change litigation. These lawsuits seek to hold private companies liable for climate change under state public and private nuisance law. Although the most recent wave of...more
1/31/2020
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Due Process ,
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Fossil Fuel ,
Lack of Authority ,
Oil & Gas ,
Private Nuisance ,
Public Nuisance ,
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