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:
- Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. BP -- Fourth Circuit affirms remand of public nuisance case to state court
- County of San Mateo v. Chevron -- Ninth Circuit affirms remand of public nuisance case to state court
- Spire Missouri v. Environmental Defense Fund -- Supreme Court refuses to review D.c. Circuit decision vacating FERC approval of natural gas pipeline
- CleanAir Now v. DeJoy -- Challenge to U.S. Postal Service's purchase of trucks with internal combustion engines
- Continued activity in Congress
- Final NEPA regulations from CEQ
- EV battery grant program
- EPA white paper on tighter CO2 standards for natural gas turbines
- Various states’ new and revised policies to advance clean energy
- Various states’ new and revised policies to advance vehicle electrification
- Adoption of a cutting-edge air quality rule in New Mexico to protect against emissions from oil and gas operations
- Hawaii’s recent policy change to require property sellers to disclose sea level rise risks when entering real estate transactions
- Specific challenges regarding SEC’s proposed rule on climate-related disclosure involving estimating and reporting Scope 3 emissions
Speakers:
Edan Dionne, Vice President, Environmental, Energy & Chemical Management Programs, IBM
Michael Gerrard, Founder and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
Sean B. Hecht, Co-Executive Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, UCLA School of Law
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates
Materials:
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