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:
- High-level summaries of the CPP suite of rules and the natural gas sector methane rules--next steps
- State responses to the release of final CPP
- Washington Gov. Inslee ordered state regulators to use existing state law to promulgate rules capping carbon
- California will partner with the Netherlands and Quebec to promote low emission vehicles through the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance
- President Obama announced new assistance to Alaskan communities to help cope with high energy costs and the impacts of climate change
- Credit rating agency Moody's sent questionnaires to local governments asking about risks from sea-level rise and flooding, as well as adaptation/response plant
- Wyoming federal court decision approving NEPA review of coal leases
- The several lawsuits seeking to review the CPP
- DC Circuit denial of requests to rehear GHG regulation rulings and fuel standards
- Dismissal of laws in DC District Court of federal coal leasing and social cost of carbon
- New lawsuit asserting federal constitutinal requirement to protect against climate change
- New filings alleging that coal companies breached fiduciary duties
Speakers:
Kyle W. Danish, Partner, Van Ness Feldman, LLP
Michael B. Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Director, Center for Climate Change Law
Gabriel Pacyniak, Climate Change Mitigation Program Manager, Georgetown University Climate Center
Materials:
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