Read President Obama’s Climate Action Plan in its entirety and fact sheet. PROGRESS REPORT: Highlighting Federal Actions Addressing the Recommendations of the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, JULY 2015 View the Infographic In June…
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Ocean Acidification
Educational Materials Ocean Acidification – Basic Chemistry – NOAA Ocean Acidification – More Detailed Chemistry – Nature Education Ocean Acidification – Impact of Sea Life – Smithsonian Resources Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification Ocean Acidification Site – NOAA
Natural Cycles and the Mississippi Delta – A Voice Annotated Slideshow
Virtual Guest Lecturer. Using Natural Cycles to Make Better Decisions about Adaptation to Climate Change: The Future of the Louisiana Coast. Mercer Law School, March 2015 – YouTube The slides
Climate Change Laws of the World
http://web.law.columbia.edu/climate-change/resources/climate-change-laws-world Climate Change Laws of the World Countries around the world are taking important domestic actions to help tackle the issue of climate change. This page collects the relevant laws and policies of various countries into an easily accessible database.…
Executive Order: Taking Action to Protect Communities and Reduce the Cost of Future Flood Disasters
Original Fact Sheet: Taking Action to Protect Communities and Reduce the Cost of Future Flood Disasters Executive Order – Establishing A Federal Flood Risk Management Standard And A Process For Further Soliciting And Considering Stakeholder Input FEMA Flood Risk Management Site…
Land Area Changes in Coastal Louisiana After the 2005 Hurricanes: A Series of Three Maps
Moderator – Katrina demonstrated that a hurricane can destroy newly created delta land, undermining the notion that this land can protect against hurricane surge. It also shows that even the best case for land building – Wax Lake and mouth…
Restoring the Gulf of Mexico for People and Wildlife – More Climate Change Denial
National Wildlife Federation: Restoring the Gulf of Mexico for People and Wildlife: Recommended Projects and Priorities (2014) [Some of the inland projects do make sense, such as dealing with the water flow into the Everglades. But the coastal projects all…
How wildfire risk management is like flood risk management – a report
Lessons for Wildfire from Federal Flood Risk Management Programs, November 2014 Slides – Solutions to Home Development in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Original URL and other resources Three Summary Findings Our paper details 14 specific lessons, grouped here into three…
Community Resettlement Prospects in Southeast Louisiana
Community Resettlement Prospects in Southeast Louisiana: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Legal, Cultural, and Demographic Aspects of Moving Individuals and Communities This paper is a multidisciplinary approach to framing the potential for community resettlement in Southeast Louisiana. The paper has three…
Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective
Herring, S. C., M. P. Hoerling, T. C. Peterson, and P. A. Stott, Eds., 2014: Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95 (9), S1–S96. Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and…
Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Change Disruption
Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Change Disruption – original link International Bar Association Global climate change is a defining challenge of our time. It poses an effective obstacle to the continued progress of human rights, which…
Global Carbon Budget 2014: An Annual Update of the Global Carbon Budget and Trends
Global Carbon Budget 2014 – slides Global Carbon Budget 2014: An Annual Update of the Global Carbon Budget and Trends Source: Global Carbon Project Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production increased by 2.3% in 2013,…
Vermont Environmentalists File FTC Challenge over “Double-Counting” RECs
Represented by Patrick A. Parenteau and Douglas A. Ruley of the Vermont Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic, four Vermont residents have petitioned the FTC to investigate alleged misleading marketing practices by Green Mountain Power regarding their provision…
Murray Energy Challenge of EPA GHG Rulemaking
In re: Murray Energy Corporation, Docket No. 14-01112 (D.C. Cir. Jun 18, 2014) This is an attack on the rulemaking itself, arguing that an inconsistency between the House and Senate versions of the applicable Clean Air provisions makes it impossible…
Reducing Coastal Risks on the East and Gulf Coasts – NRC
National Research Council. Reducing Coastal Risks on the East and Gulf Coasts. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2014. National Vision Needed to Achieve Comprehensive Risk Reduction Along Atlantic and Gulf Coasts WASHINGTON – A national vision for coastal risk…
Administrative Law Issues in Teaching Climate Change
This page supports the SEALS Forum – Administrative Law Issues in Teaching Climate Change. It will be updated on an ongoing basis. Climate Change Law Teaching Resources Teaching Mass. v. EPA, 127 S.Ct. 1438 (2007) The Case – Study guide Slides on the…
Liability for Disaster Predictions – The Italian Earthquake Case
Also see: Faults Alemanno, Alberto and Lauta, Kristian Cedervall, The L’Aquila Seven: Re-Establishing Justice after a Natural Disaster (July 1, 2014). European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2/2014. This article discusses the Italian case finding a group of earthquake scientists criminally liable…
Virginia Court Blocks FOIA Access to Climate Research Emails
The Climate Change Email Fight: Court recognizes proprietary value of university research communications – Am. Tradition Inst. v. Rector & Visitors of Univ. of Virginia, 756 S.E.2d 435 (Va. 2014) – Universities amicus brief.
Coastal Sea Level Rise Resources
Surging Seas – Flood risks with climate change on the US coast (Climate Central) Excellent site for illustrating the current and future risk of sea level rise. It is also useful for showing what lower levees of hurricane storm tides…
Forest-Climate Working Group 2014 Policy Recommendations
Using private forests to mitigate climate change. Forest-Climate Working Group 2014 Policy Recommendations
Pew Annual Report on Clean Energy Investment – 2013
Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2013 Edition Overview For the past five years, Pew has tracked investment and finance trends in the world’s leading economies. Over that period, the clean energy industry has been buffeted by a global recession,…
Army Corps of Engineers 404 Permit Process
Corps permits are also necessary for any work, including construction and dredging, in the Nation’s navigable waters. The Corps balances the reasonably foreseeable benefits and detriments of proposed projects, and makes permit decisions that recognize the essential values of the…
General NEPA Resources
White House Guidance Guidance on the Applicability of E.O. 13807 to States with NEPA Assignment Authority Under the Surface Transportation Project Delivery Program (2019) Statutes and Regulations The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended Council on Environmental Quality(CEQ)…
Climate Change and Existing Law – CRS
Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future This report surveys existing law for legal issues that have arisen, or may arise in the future, on account of climate change and government responses thereto.…
Climate Change Threats to National Security
“Climate Change presents a national security threat that could undermine American interests at home and abroad. The effects of climate change are already degrading naval bases, drying up water resources, prompting mass migration[…]