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• International Trade And Greenhouse Gas Regulations: Are Disputes In The Future Over Climate Change Legislation?

By Peter Kirby, Fasken Martineau and Michael House, Perkins Coie Climate change and trade are inextricably linked. Increasingly, businesses will fac...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Climate Change Tort Suit Over Hurricane Katrina Damages Off To The Fifth Circuit Again

On March 10, 2012, the latest chapter in a class of plaintiffs' efforts to hold various industrial defendants liable for their greenhouse gas emissio...

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• Warming planet, heated debate: climate change fears spill over to the defense community.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Climate change is a threat to the nation's security. Politicians and environmentalists who want to reduce the amount of gre...

• National Defense
• Vol. 93 Nbr. 657, August 2008

• Global Warming; Suing the Feds Over Climate Change

Lots of people are concerned about global warming. Arthur and Anne Berndt are doing something about it -- the Sharon sugar makers are suing the Bush Administration. "As a nation, we need to be leading the world in all of our policies, particularly in environmental issues," says Arthur Berndt. "The federal government is funding projects without any consideration of the environmental impact. Enormous amounts of money pass through these [agencies]," [Ron Schems] explains. "If you follow the money and the greenhouse-gas emissions, they lead to the two specific federal agencies named in the suit. Eight percent of worldwide annual emissions can be traced to projects financed by these two agencies." "The government's position is that climate change doesn't exist, so no one can be injured," S...

• Seven Days
• August 05, 2009

• The Debate Over Climate Change Is Finished

I found Mike Maguire's commentary in the Sunday Courier & Press, "In global warming fight, carbon dioxide unfairly vilified," to be unhelpful with regard to facts and analysis. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a chemical compound. CO2 has physical characteristics. CO2 does not have a reputation to defend. It cannot be vilified.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• August 14, 2009

• National Renewable Portfolio Standard: Smart Policy or Misguided Gesture?

Synopsis: Concern over emissions and climate change has led over half of the states to enact "renewable portfolio standard" (RPS) legislation requiring regulated electric utilities to obtain some fraction of their power requirements from sources defined as "renewable." Legislation to institute a federal RPS may follow. In reality, RPS is a policy in search of a rationale, at odds with principles of efficient environmental regulation and poorly suited to promote other policies favored by its supporters. The actual record of state implementations has been largely symbolic. Very few states with binding RPS requirements are currently in compliance with their own programs, and a federal RPS will be subject to the same forces that have led to state-level failure. The recent history of renewab...

• Energy Law Journal
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 1, January 2008

• The Geography of Climate Change Litigation Part Ii: Narratives of Massachusetts V Epa

The United States-the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter-is not party to the Kyoto Protocol,3 and many of the state parties struggle to achieve meaningful implementation.4 As reinforced by the resolution at the end of the G8 Summit in June 2007, massive uncertainty exists about the future of international regulation of climate change after the current Kyoto commitments expire in 2012.5 Climate change litigation is one of many civil society and governmental initiatives that have emerged in response to the lack of effective international environmental regulation. [...] Eric Posner, one of the principle advocates for an expansive approach to executive power that significantly curtails rights protections in the War on Terror context, recently published a commentary that makes a normati...

... climate regulation,8 debates in the US over the status and boundaries of international law gro...

• Chicago Journal of International Law
• Vol. 8 Nbr. 2, January 2008

• ; Hoping to Halt Release of Research Documents, Emails

A former University of Virginia professor who has drawn the ire of climate change skeptics is entering the legal fray over a conservative group's pursuit of his emails and documents related to his work. Attorneys for Michael Mann, now a professor at Pennsylvania State University, have filed a motion to intervene in a case brought by the American Tradition Institute's (ATI) Environmental Law Center and Delegate Robert G. Marshall, Prince William Republican.

• The Washington Times
• September 07, 2011

• Australia's Move Viewed As 'Game-Changer'

Schultz going to China Paul Schultz, Dubuque's resource management coordinator, is traveling to Wuxi, China, on Saturday as part of the Professional Fellows Program. His trip is being coordinated by Kevin Guo, Wuxi's director of investment promotion, who visited Dubuque in April as a Sustainability Fellow. Wuxi, a city of about 800,000, is implementing a variety of resource management and infrastructure plans as China grapples with its own sustainability issues. The debate about climate change is over in Australia. The only remaining questions are how to adapt.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• October 13, 2011

• Climate Talk Turns to Techno Fixes

CANCUN, Mexico - Like the warming atmosphere above, a once-taboo idea hangs over the slow, frustrating U.N. talks to curb climate change: the idea to tinker with the atmosphere or the planet itself, pollute the skies to ward off the sun, fill the oceans with gas- eating plankton, do whatever it takes. As climate negotiators grew more discouraged in recent months, U.S. and British government bodies urged stepped-up studies of such "geoengineering." The U.N. climate science network decided to assess the options. And a range of new research moved ahead in America and elsewhere.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• December 06, 2010