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:
- DC Circuit's en banc review of the Clean Power Plan case and several state litigation developments
- EPA's new rules regulating methane emissions from oil and gas operations
- Washington state released proposed carbon cap regulation
- West Coast governors, premiers, and mayors signed Pacific North America Climate Leadership Agreement
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality announced study of market-based approaches to reduce GHG emissions
- Recent GHG mitigation and climate adaptation actions at the state and local level in California
- Maryland Gov. Hogan vetoed legislation to increase the state’s renewable portfolio standard
- Ontario announced its Climate Change Action Plan and published final regulation for its provincial cap-and-trade program
- U.S. FHWA and FTA issued new rule that includes new resiliency considerations for transportation planning processes
- Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act case (Kain v. DEP)
- Congress: House vote on anti-carbon tax resolution, upcoming appropriations process (which is supposed to be rider-free), and the energy bill
Speakers:
Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Climate Center, Georgetown University
Michael B. Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Director, Center for Climate Change Law
Manik Roy, formerly with the ClimateWorks Foundation
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates
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