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:
- Recent EPA proposal to withdraw methane-specific emission standards for oil and gas production
- DC/federal implications of the agreement between auto manufacturers and the State of California
- Hill developments, including the draft Senate transportation bill and the legislative drafting process being spearheaded by the House E&E Committee
- Montana Governor Steve Bullock issued an executive order in on July 1 establishing a Montana Climate Solutions Council and requiring the development of a Montana Climate Solutions Plan by June 2020
- On September 3, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Executive Order No. 3 that includes both mitigation and adaptation provisions
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed the state's first Chief Resilience Officer on August 1
- Multiple petitions to DC Circuit challenging EPA's repeal of Clean Power Plan and promulgation of Affordable Clean Energy Rule
- Dismissal of lawsuit in Oregon alleging that government's failure to protect plaintiffs from climate change violated their constitutional rights
- Grant of motion for leave to amend complaint in Conservation Law Foundation's suit against Shell Oil
- Rhode Island federal district court's remand of the state's climate change lawsuit against oil companies to state court
- DC Circuit dismissal of challenges to FERC's authorization of Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline
- Oregon federal court's grant of preliminary injunction barring certain grazing for failure to consider climate change
Speakers:
Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Climate Center, Georgetown University
Michael B. Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates
Materials:
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