Recently, legal controversies have arisen regarding the scope of greenhouse gas emissions that should be considered in environmental reviews of fossil fuel extraction and transportation proposals under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The key question is whether and how agencies...

This article, published in the Environmental Law Reporter, examines how the federal agencies that manage natural resources and public lands can account for the current and future impacts of climate change in their management activities. It finds that the federal agencies responsible for managing...

Federal climate regulations are currently under attack, in part due to the perception that these regulations will impose excessive costs on regulated industries and society as a whole. But according to federal projections, the benefits of these regulations would significantly outweigh the costs....

This report describes how climate change will affect natural resources in the United States, and explains why consideration of how climate change will affect those resources is necessary in order to fulfill legal requirements under NEPA and other statutes governing the management of these...

This report describes the results from a survey of 238 federal Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) published from July 2012 through December 2014. The report includes a general overview of trends across all EISs, as well as an analysis of how climate change is addressed in the context of...

This paper outlines a set of model protocols for assessing the impacts of climate change on projects undergoing environmental reviews in accordance with NEPA and state equivalents. In addition, the paper describes: (i) the rationale for integrating climate impact considerations into...

A proper energy transition from non-renewable to renewable sources should in theory move society to a decentralized, more equitable and less aggressive model of energy governance, based on a rapprochement between sources and consumption focuses. By initially showing the many shortcomings of...

This chapter explores some of the key issues pertaining to the implementation of Section 115 through the state implementation plan (SIP) revision process. It discusses how diverse federal, state, and local programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could be effectively integrated...