On February 12, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule rescinding the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and eliminating all federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for U.S. motor vehicles and engines. To justify this action, EPA has adopted an interpretation of the Clean Air […]
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A Year of Climate Rulings Handing down no less than five climate rulings in 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (“the ECtHR”) has been busy deciding the backlog of cases it had adjourned in 2023, while it dealt with three other climate cases pending before the Grand Chamber at […]
On Monday, February 9, 2026, the Sabin Center submitted an amicus curiae brief to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) in the matter of the Request for an Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to the Climate Change Crisis. The brief explains […]
On December 5, 2025, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a proposed rule to weaken its Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks, referred to as the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule III or SAFE Rule III. The […]
Last week marked the one year anniversary of President Trump’s second inauguration, and of the Sabin Center’s Climate Backtracker. We launched the Backtracker on inauguration day, January 20, 2025, to record actions taken by the Trump-Vance Administration to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The […]
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical forest on the planet, covering an area of approximately 6.3 million square kilometers and extending across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, and the Guianas. Half of the planet’s biodiversity is contained within it. Its vegetation is indispensable for maintaining the global rainfall […]
Until recently, Louisiana was the darling of the carbon capture, removal, and storage industry. Due to its history of oil and gas production, the state has a fairly extensive carbon dioxide pipeline network, and ideal geology for storing carbon dioxide. For those reasons, federal incentives to advance point source capture […]
Local governments are leaders in the fight against climate change: they reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions, promote renewable energy resources, and otherwise advance climate mitigation and adaptation goals. But even as many local governments have already demonstrated their capability to tackle the climate crisis, state governments can hinder those efforts […]