Todd D. Stern, head of the delegation, gave a media briefing shortly after arriving in Copenhagen today, 9 December. He reiterated recent commitments on greenhouse gas reductions, and asserted that legislation and regulation, rather than judicial intervention... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Svend Brandt-Erichsen and Dustin Till of Marten Law Group discuss a December 2008 proposal by Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire to meet statewide and regional greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets... Read More

“In a ground-breaking decision for global warming litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that eight states, New York City, and three land trusts could bring public nuisance claims against owners of some of the largest... Read More

“In a decision that may place even greater pressure on Congress to enact climate change legislation, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a nuisance case against five of the nation's largest utilities to proceed because no federal... Read More

In this Emerging Issues commentary, Gabrielle Sigel and Michael R. Strong of Jenner & Block discuss the U.S. EPA’s proposed rule, released March 10, 2009, for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, required by an appropriations... Read More

California's immediate appeal of EPA's denial of its request for a Clean Air Act waiver to set stricter vehicle emissions standards than required by federal law is the focus of this Emerging Issues Commentary by Steven Jones, a partner with the... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Alyssa Moir and Dustin Till of Marten Law Group report that Governor Ted Kulongoski of Oregon has recently signed several energy efficiency, climate change, and renewable energy bills. These bills mandate greater energy... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Commentary, Alyssa Moir of the Marten Law Group reports on a lawsuit filed on November 8, 2007, by California against the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to compel the agency to act on a 2005 waiver request under the Clean... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, E. Lynn Grayson of Jenner & Block reports that while a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the best known, and most often debated climate change challenge, water scarcity is emerging as the more significant concern... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Gabrielle Sigel and Jennifer L. Cassel of Jenner & Block's Chicago office discuss federal, state, regional and international actions taken in 2008 to address climate change. These actions set the stage for the... Read More

California-based Climate Action Reserve (CAR) has released version 3.0 of its Forest Project Protocol, which allows forest lands located anywhere in the country to generate carbon offset credits by following CAR's accounting and verification procedures... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Svend Brandt-Erichsen of the Marten Law Group reports that agriculture and forestry, like most sectors of the economy, would experience higher operating costs under a GHG cap-and-trade program like that contained in H... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Jeff Kray of Marten Law Group advises that permits for the Carlsbad desalination plant, a $320 million San Diego area facility, have been upheld over the opposition of environmental groups. The permits had been opposed... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Commentary, Steven Jones of the Marten Law Group discusses revised versions of two key documents issued at the end of July 2008 by the Western Climate Initiative (WCI): (1) a draft scoping paper that broadens the coverage of the... Read More

In this Emerging Issues Commentary, Dustin Till of the Marten Law Group examines the EPA’s highly anticipated Advanced Notice of Public Rulemaking (ANPR), published in July 2008, which states that the Clean Air Act is ill-suited for the task of... Read More