The president issued Exec. Order No. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which orders the United States to prioritize the climate crisis in foreign policy and national security, take a governmentwide approach to the climate crisis, use the federal government's buying power and real property and asset management to support climate action, promote green jobs in infrastructure, conservation, agriculture, reforestation, and energy, and secure environmental justice.
CEQ issued updated guidance to federal agencies titled "Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings and Associated Instructions."
This Article focuses on an area of rapidly evolving jurisprudence—climate liability litigation. It examines in depth the state attorney general’s complaint filed in Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. in 2018, alleging various state-law tort claims. It explores the intensely sustained legal battles taking place between states and fossil fuel companies over whether federal courts or state courts should have jurisdiction, which in many respects is the “ballgame issue” for both plaintiffs and defendants.
People, businesses, cities, and states are increasingly burdened by extreme weather events. Drought, heat, wildfires, precipitation, hurricanes, and tornadoes are becoming more intense. Most analysts point toward an emerging trend: as the earth warms, extreme weather events are becoming more costly and more deadly, though some raise lingering uncertainties about linking climate change to specific types of weather or specific events.
EPA seeks comment on applications from Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. for off-cycle carbon dioxide credits under the Agency's light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards.
With a contentious presidential election looming amidst a pandemic, economic worries, and historic protests against systemic racism, climate action may seem less pressing than other challenges. Nothing could be further from the truth.
EPA seeks comment on data sources and analytical approaches on which to base an Agency determination of an updated weighting factor (F-factor) for E85 flexible fuel vehicles for model years 2021 and later.
Local governments in the coastal zone play a key role in adapting to the changing climate.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program seeks comment on the proposed themes and framework of the Fifth National Climate Assessment; the program will develop an annotated outline based on the input received that will be released for public comment at a later date.
This Article argues that growing private efforts to address climate change collectively take on the attributes and functions of a governance system that could be vital to societal decarbonization. Instead of evaluating specific initiatives or actions of particular businesses, it explores the entire field of private climate action and offers new ways of thinking about the path ahead.