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Irish High Court: Peat-Fired Power Plant’s Environmental Review Must Account for Impacts of Peat Extraction

Justin Gundlach Climate Law Fellow On October 9, 2015, the High Court of Ireland issued a decision—discussed below the jump—very much in line with decisions recently issued by U.S. federal district courts about how feedstocks and power plants relate for the purpose of environmental review. In the U.S., the feedstock […]

by Justin Gundlach
Published November 2, 2015
Congress

NOAA Refuses to Produce Internal Communications Subpoenaed by House Science Committee

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has refused to produce documents subpoenaed by Congressional Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chair of the House Science Committee, who sought internal NOAA communications relating to a recent climate change study. The study by NOAA scientists, published in Science in June 2015, found that […]

by Lauren Kurtz
Published October 30, 2015
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The Supreme Court Seems Poised to Shrink FERC’s Jurisdiction

Justin Gundlach Climate Law Fellow The Supreme Court has turned its attention to the question—really several aspects of the question—of where exactly the Federal Power Act of 1935 draws the jurisdictional line between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state regulators. The Court heard oral argument in one case […]

by Justin Gundlach
Published October 20, 2015
Congress

Climate Scientist Threatened with Investigation by Member of Congress for Purported “Partisan Political Activity”

A climate scientist who was the lead signatory on a letter to President Obama, supporting a proposed RICO investigation of some corporate opponents to action on climate change, has himself been threatened with a Congressional investigation by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).  Rep. Smith – chair of the House Committee on […]

by Lauren Kurtz
Published October 14, 2015
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EcoChains: Arctic Crisis — A Game of Strategy and Survival in the High Arctic

Guest post by Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College, Columbia University. Stephanie leads the Polar Learning and Responding Climate Change Education Partnership. Last month Arctic sea ice declined to the fourth lowest summer ice extent in the satellite record, continuing the trend in ice loss. To help bring home the impacts of […]

by Justin Gundlach
Published October 13, 2015
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October 2015 Update to the Climate Litigation Chart

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.  If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com. Here are the additions […]

by Jessica Wentz
Published October 9, 2015
Hiring

Dave Markell Joins Sabin Center as Visiting Scholar

We are pleased to announce that Dave Markell, the Steven M. Goldstein Professor at Florida State University School of Law, is joining the Sabin Center as our second David Sive Visiting Scholar. (Dan Selmi from Loyola Law School – Los Angeles was with us last spring, as our inaugural Visiting […]

by Jessica Wentz
Published September 30, 2015
Events

John C. Cruden on Environmental Law and the U.S. Department of Justice

John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, will give the first David Sive Memorial Lecture on Environmental Law at Columbia Law School on Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m.  His topic will be “The Arc of Environmental Law and the […]

by Jessica Wentz
Published September 29, 2015

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