Staying on top of the legal and policy developments in the climate change arena is no small task. As a special service to our members, the Environmental Law Institute provides a series of monthly conference calls with national experts on climate law and policy to keep you up to date and to answer your questions.
Topics to be addressed in this month's call:
- Discussion of the unexpected proposed determination by EPA that the light-duty CO2 standards should be retained and how the next Administration may respond
- Illinois passed legislation to keep nuclear power online and support clean energy and energy efficiency
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality released a draft study on possible market-based mechanisms for reducing the state’s GHG emissions
- The California Air Resources Board released the discussion draft of its scoping plan for how CARB thinks it can achieve the SB 32 goal of at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030
- The Ohio legislature is considering moving legislation in its lame-duck session to make its energy efficiency and clean energy standards voluntary until 2020; the standards were frozen in 2014
- Washington, DC released Climate Ready DC, a comprehensive plan for adapting to climate change impacts
- The City of Norfolk released its Vision 2100 plan, setting out a long-term strategy to ensure resilient infrastructure and development and reduced risks from sea-level rise and flooding
- Ruling from federal court in WA that biological opinion needed to consider climate change effects on endangered salmon and chinook
- DC Circuit rejection of Sierra Club demand for GHG analysis of liquified natural gas terminal proposal
- Developments in fight between ExxonMobil and several state AGs
- Discussion of the climate-related bills passed by the House in this Congress as a possible indicator of what they might try to move in the upcoming session
Speakers:
Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Climate Center, Georgetown University
Michael Burger, Executive Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Manik Roy, Consultant [formerly, ClimateWorks Foundation]
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates
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