This Week on Legal Planet
Smoke stacks at American Electric Power's coal power plant in New Haven, W.Va. Photo: Saul Loeb
Nov 26 Business Gets Ready for Emission Cuts
Much of corporate America has already been thinking about how to comply. Many businesses concluded years ago that such limits were inevitable, and they… [read more]
Nov 26 Thankful for U.S., China News on Climate?
After yesterday’s news that Obama will attend the international climate talks in Copenhagen and commit to near term targets (discussed by Cara here… [read more]
Nov 25 More on today’s White House announcement re Copenhagen
Dan writes immediately below about Obama’s announcement that he’ll attend the talks in Copenhagen in two weeks, and with a U.S. emissions… [read more]
Nov 25 Obama to Go to Copenhagen
The White House also confirmed today that Obama will propose that the United States plans to curb its emissions by 2020 in the range of 17 percent below… [read more]
Nov 24 The Climate “Partnership” with India
At least that’s what the White House is calling it. (Okay, okay: technically, the White House calls it the “Green Partnership to Address… [read more]
Nov 24 California Air Resources Board releases draft cap-and-trade plan
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) today released the preliminary draft cap-and-trade regulation. CARB staff would like to have comments by January… [read more]
Nov 24 War Tax=Carbon Tax
Congressman David Obey yesterday called for a war tax to pay for troops in Afghanistan. While the idea of a war tax makes all the sense in the world (… [read more]
Nov 23 Readers’ Opinions About The Timing of Climate Legislation
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Nov 22 The Challenge of Regulating the Ordinary
The title is a play on a great paper of Holly’s about the converse challenge of saving the ordinary. Whether the ordinary is good or bad, however… [read more]
