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Absent Federal legislation or leadership on regulatory responses to greenhouse gas (“GHG”)-based climate problems, the states have sought, either on their own or through regional agreements, to restrict the amount of GHG released by the electric power plants within their states. These...
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Climate change policy analysis has focused almost exclusively on national policy and even on harmonizing climate policies across countries, implicitly assuming that harmonization of climate policies at the subnational level would be mandated or guaranteed. We argue that the design and...
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When policy scholars assess the effects of federalism on climate change mitigation, they often look at countries that … rejected binding commitments (in particular the United States) and find that federalism enabled sub-national entities to partly … detrimental effects of federalism, we focus our case study on the integration of climate change concerns into building policies, a …
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Several cities have recently brought nuisance suits against major fossil fuel companies, seeking damages to help pay for the costs of adapting to climate change. This paper identifies significant legal precedent for allowing state nuisance suits over transboundary pollution harms and argues that...
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.S. federalism, for example, may jeopardize international negotiations seeking to utilize certain mechanisms of global forest … United States, are crucial to climate and forest negotiations since they account for 54 percent of the world’s total forest …
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States and regional organizations have been in the forefront of programs to address climate change in the United States. The Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency means that a strong federal response is now also inevitable. Expeditious implementation of a...
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