Monthly Climate Change Briefing: September 2021

When
September 13, 2021 5:00 pm — 5:30 pm
Where
Teleconference

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.

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Topics to be addressed in this month's call:

  • Montana Supreme Court ruling on potential violations of state constitution by state's pro-fossil energy policies.
  • DC Circuit decision finding FERC failed to adequately analyze climate impacts of two LNG export terminals in Texas.
  • New Jersey federal district court demand of Hoboken climate nuisance suit to state court.
  • Alaska court vacating federal approvals for mail oil development project in National Petroleum Reserve.
  • Missouri court dismissing challenge to social cost of carbon.
  • New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation to establish a goal for all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the State to be zero-emissions by 2035.
  • The California Energy Commission unanimously approved an update to the state’s energy code, including a first-in-the-nation energy storage mandate.
  • Pennsylvania reached another milestones toward joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
  • New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill that promotes offshore wind development by granting offshore wind developers authority to construct transmission infrastructure.
  • Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a new clean energy mandate, requiring a 100% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the state’s largest utilities by 2040.
  • New Jersey and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a $16 billion plan to improve the resilience of the state’s shoreline and back bays.
  • In California, lawmakers passed legislation requiring the California Coastal Commission, a statewide coastal planning agency, to account for rising sea levels in its planning, policies, and activities.
  • EPA vehicles rulemaking.
  • State of play on climate legislation in Congress.

Speakers:
James Bradbury, Mitigation Program Director, Georgetown Climate Center, Georgetown University Law Center
Edan Dionne, Vice President, Environmental, Energy & Chemical Management Programs, IBM
Michael Gerrard, Founder and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates

Materials:
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