EPA Tackles Climate Adaptation « Legal Planet: Environmental Law

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... For the first time, EPA has addressed the issue of climate change adaptation in a letter from Administrator Lisa Jackson. The contents of the letter are not startling: mostly instructions to carry out existing policies or government recommendations on ...
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Explaining EPA's Authority Under the Clean Air Act to Address

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... In a new white paper by the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), Amy Sinden and I try to clear up some misconceptions about climate change and the Clean Air Act. Critics of EPA maintain that the Clean Air Act is somehow an inappropriate tool to address ...
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Climate Denial Legislators Struck by Scientific “Friendly Fire

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... Richard Muller of Berkeley, a physicist who has gotten into the climate skeptic game, has been leading the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, an effort partially financed by none other than the Koch foundation. And climate deniers — who claim ...
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Environmental Justice and Adaptation to Climate Change « Legal

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... I'm beginning to wonder whether we need an “Endangered People Act” to ensure that the most vulnerable get the protection they need from climate change impacts. Climate change will disproportionately affect vulnerable individuals and poorer regions and ...
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Climate Adaptation Across the Pond « Legal Planet: Environmental

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... In the U.K., climate adaptation is mandated by statute, with primary responsibility in a single government agency and specific implementation requirements for local authorities. In the U.S., we can only envy the extent to which even the current ...
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Climate Change Impacts in China « Legal Planet: Environmental Law

The fact that the government, or at least portions of the government, realize that climate change would be bad for China, may or may not translate into concrete policy. But there's at least some reason to think that China is taking the ...
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Climate Change and the Pope « Legal Planet: Environmental Law and

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... In his address to diplomats from more than 170 nations accredited to the Vatican, Pope Benedict expressed concern about the failure to reach agreement on climate change at the Copenhagen summit last month. More recently, the U.S. bishops have ...
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Not Enough “Green” to be Green? « Legal Planet: Environmental Law Google Alerts – climate policy

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... There are a few million dollars in the Agriculture Department budget for climate research, a nod toward climate science in the Commerce Department, money for promoting electric vehicles and more efficient buildings in the Energy Department budget, ...
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The N.Y. Times Clears the Air « Legal Planet: Environmental Law Google Alerts – climate policy

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Comparing Climate Models with Reality « Legal Planet Google Alerts – climate policy

Skip to content. Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy ... The models are looking pretty good, as shown by this graph from Real Climate. The colored lines are different measurements of change in global temperature average. The black line is the average of the predictions from the models used by IPCC, ...
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