Monthly Climate Change Briefing: December 2024

When
December 10, 2024 3:00 pm — 3:30 pm
Where
Webinar Only

An ELI Members Briefing

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 (also available to non-members for a fee), the Environmental Law Institute provides a series of monthly webinars with national experts on climate law and policy to keep you up to date with short presentations about various sectors, along with time at the end for discussion between the panelists and to answer audience questions.

Topics to be addressed in this month's briefing:

  • The presidential transition as it affects climate and energy
  • State updates
  • California legislature special session
  • Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County -- Supreme Court argument on consideration of indirect impacts under NEPA 
  • Chamber of Commerce v. California Air Resources Board -- Denial of summary judgment in challenge to California's climate disclosure laws
  • Association of Energy Conservation Professionals v. Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board -- Nullifying state's repeal of regulations implementing Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
  • Greenidge Generation v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation -- Invalidating state's denial of air pollution permit for power plant for cryptocurrency mining.
  • Clean Air Coalition of Western New York v. New York Public Service Commission -- Finding that PSC must consider whether transfer of ownership of power plant to cryptocurrency company would be inconsistent with state greenhouse gas reduction goals

Speakers:
Daniel Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Gerrard, Founder and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates

Materials:
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ELI Monthly Climate Change Briefings are made possible by the generous support of our institutional members.


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