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 addressed in this month's call:
- Proposed 111d rule for power plants
- BLM and EPA methane rulemakings
- Second Circuit decision in the challenge to the zero energy credits
- Cert denial in the HFCs case
- Urgenda decision
- On the heels of September's Global Climate Action Summit in California and Climate Week in NYC, what companies are likely watching this week and how it might influence corporate actions and strategies going forward
- IPPC report
- Nordhaus Nobel Peace Prize
- Exxon $1M to lobby for carbon tax
- Hurricane Michael
- Virginia joins the Transportation and Climate Initiative
- California Air and Resources Board voted in late September to require that fuel producers “cut the carbon intensity of their fuels 20 percent by 2030, as part of a policy called the Low Carbon Fuel Standard”
- The Climate Action for Alaska Leadership Team, convened in response to an order issued by Governor Walker in fall 2017, delivered its recommendations for an Alaska Climate Change Policy and Action Plan in September
- California took a variety of steps at legislative, executive, and agency levels designed to help improve the resilience of the state and its natural resources to impacts from climate change
- NYC Pension Funds announced its plan to invest $4 billion of funds into “climate-change solutions like renewable energy and clean water over the next three years, more than doubling its current investment”
- U.S. still on track to meet around 2/3 of its carbon-emissions goals under the Paris climate accord, according to report
- Several states, including New York, Maryland, and Connecticut, announced their plans to “phase out super-polluting hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and replace them with climate-friendlier coolants” in new refrigerators, air conditioners, and other products
Speakers:
Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Climate Center, Georgetown University
Michael B. Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Manik Roy, Senior Fellow, DEPLOY/US [formerly, ClimateWorks Foundation]
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates
Materials:
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