Add to ORKGControversy has followed Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s decision earlier this fall to sue the six largest automakers, alleging that car emissions constitute a public nuisance because they contribute to global warming. Some even have dismissed the lawsuit as election year grandstanding. To the contrary, the Attorney General should be applauded for creatively using a venerable legal tool to protect California’s environment and to plug a gaping hole left by federal failures in this area
Plaintiffs seeking compensation from the effects of global warming have encountered challenging lega...
In Washington Environmental Council v. Bellon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addre...
Federal law preempts state regulation of motor vehicle emissions. California alone is allowed to see...
Controversy has followed Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s decision earlier this fall to sue the six l...
The battle against climate change and its impacts in the United States must be waged on many fronts ...
Since the 1970s, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act—and the regulations issued under their au...
In American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut (AEP), the Supreme Court explicitly left ajar the door...
This Note considers how the Supreme Court’s decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (UARG) m...
In July 2004, eight States, the City of New York and three land trusts filed suit against five elect...
The judge who called for a climate tutorial in a federal court in San Francisco accepted the science...
On November 29, 2006, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Massachusetts v. Environmental Prote...
Under the Clean Air Act, California has the ability to enact its own air pollution laws due to uniqu...
In the latter half of 2009, the Second Circuit in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co. and the...
Litigation aiming to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is coming to be dominated by battle...
While a growing scientific consensus recognizes that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are cont...
Plaintiffs seeking compensation from the effects of global warming have encountered challenging lega...
In Washington Environmental Council v. Bellon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addre...
Federal law preempts state regulation of motor vehicle emissions. California alone is allowed to see...
Controversy has followed Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s decision earlier this fall to sue the six l...
The battle against climate change and its impacts in the United States must be waged on many fronts ...
Since the 1970s, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act—and the regulations issued under their au...
In American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut (AEP), the Supreme Court explicitly left ajar the door...
This Note considers how the Supreme Court’s decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (UARG) m...
In July 2004, eight States, the City of New York and three land trusts filed suit against five elect...
The judge who called for a climate tutorial in a federal court in San Francisco accepted the science...
On November 29, 2006, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Massachusetts v. Environmental Prote...
Under the Clean Air Act, California has the ability to enact its own air pollution laws due to uniqu...
In the latter half of 2009, the Second Circuit in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co. and the...
Litigation aiming to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is coming to be dominated by battle...
While a growing scientific consensus recognizes that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are cont...
Plaintiffs seeking compensation from the effects of global warming have encountered challenging lega...
In Washington Environmental Council v. Bellon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addre...
Federal law preempts state regulation of motor vehicle emissions. California alone is allowed to see...