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Fifth IPCC Report Sets a Global Carbon Budget

The Fifth Assessment Report is out from the IPCC.  Andy Revkin’s DotEarth blog has an excellent summary.  No real surprises — the Earth has warmed, is warming, and will warm, the oceans are acidifying...

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If Business Corporations Have Religious Rights, Can’t Environmental...

So the Supreme Court has granted cert in the Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius cases. In both of these cases, for-profit corporations are challenging the...

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Would we have Environmental Law Without Pete Seeger?

OK, so the title is a bit of hyperbole. But every social movement has its inspirational leaders, and Pete played a huge role in galvanizing the environmental movement. His great gift was the power of...

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Agency Capture in the Carolinas

Newly released e-mails show that when Duke Energy received notice that several citizens groups (including Waterkeeper Alliance and several North Carolina Waterkeeper organizations) were planning to sue...

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The Public Trust in Action: Public Trust and the Sheriff’s Deputy

Under the Public Trust doctrine, navigable waters are held in an inalienable trust by State government.  Members of the public have a right to transit by boat on  waters susceptible to navigation....

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Chevron Step II with Teeth

Esopus Creek at the Shandaken Tunnel Outlet This is a post for Ad-law geeks. The Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic just won its case challenging the EPA Water Transfer Rule on behalf of Trout...

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Earth Week, Tax Week, Carbon Tax

(reposted from the old Green Law web site- originally posted 4/22/16) I see that both David Roberts and Paul Krugman have been writing about carbon pricing — specifically carbon taxes — this week as a...

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Carbon Tax based on Social Cost of Carbon: Cost Benefit Analysis in Disguise?

Bangla Desh Flooding David Robert’s second installment of his ruminations on carbon taxes is out here, and is worth a read. Shorter David Roberts: a $10 per ton carbon tax based on low estimates of...

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Pruitt’s Arbitrary Cost Accounting is Built into the Concept of Cost Benefit...

EPA Adminstrator Scott Pruitt announced yesterday that today he will propose the repeal of the Obama-EPA Clean Power Plan, which required a system of carbon-emissions reductions by power plants to...

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Some Suggested Principles for Individual Carbon Offsets

Photo by Mircea Iancu on Pexels.com I’ll confess up front that I am not a fan of offsets. Addressing climate change will require people in the developed world to live with a smaller carbon footprint....

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