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Survey Of Greenhouse Gas Considerations In Federal Environmental Impact Statements And Environmental Assessments For Fossil Fuel-Related Projects, 2017-2018, Madeleine Siegel, Alexander Loznak
Survey Of Greenhouse Gas Considerations In Federal Environmental Impact Statements And Environmental Assessments For Fossil Fuel-Related Projects, 2017-2018, Madeleine Siegel, Alexander Loznak
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Climate change is already generating enormous costs to the environment and public health both in the United States and around the world. These costs will only escalate over the time with increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), U.S. federal agencies must assess the environmental effects of proposals for major federal projects, plans and programs before deciding if they should proceed. To conduct a meaningful environmental review of proposed projects, federal agencies must carefully consider how these projects contribute to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions – particularly for projects concerning fossil fuel extraction, transport, …
Overcoming Impediments To Offshore Co2 Storage: Legal Issues In The U.S. And Canada, Romany M. Webb, Michael B. Gerrard
Overcoming Impediments To Offshore Co2 Storage: Legal Issues In The U.S. And Canada, Romany M. Webb, Michael B. Gerrard
Faculty Scholarship
Limiting future temperature increases and associated climate change requires immediate action to prevent additional carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere and to lower the existing atmospheric carbon dioxide load. This could be advanced through carbon capture and storage (CCS), which involves collecting carbon dioxide that would otherwise be released by power plants or similar facilities and injecting it into underground geologic formations, where it will remain permanently sequestered. The techniques developed for CCS can also be used to sequester carbon dioxide that has been removed from the atmosphere using direct air capture or other negative emission technologies. Past CCS …
Persistent Regulations: A Detailed Assessment Of The Trump Administration's Efforts To Repeal Federal Climate Regulations, Jessica A. Wentz, Michael B. Gerrard
Persistent Regulations: A Detailed Assessment Of The Trump Administration's Efforts To Repeal Federal Climate Regulations, Jessica A. Wentz, Michael B. Gerrard
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This paper takes a critical look at what the Trump administration has actually accomplished in terms of repealing and modifying greenhouse gas emission standards and otherwise advancing its pro-fossil fuel agenda. As detailed herein and summarized in Figures 1 and 2, the scope of the efforts taken pursuant to this agenda is extremely broad – there are dozens of different deregulatory actions underway at various agencies, most notably the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But in most cases, the pace of these efforts has been quite slow. This is particularly true for efforts to repeal or revise major regulations like the …