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A Mount Laurel for Climate Change? The Judicial Role in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Land Use and Transportation

Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in the United States have remained persistently high. One cause is common low-density land use patterns that make most Americans dependent on automobiles. Reducing these emissions requires increasing density, which U.S. local government law makes difficult to achieve through the political process. Mount Laurel, a 1975 New Jersey Supreme Court case that addressed an affordable housing crisis by restraining local parochialism, provides a potential solution.

Overcoming Impediments to Offshore CO2 Storage: Legal Issues in the United States and Canada

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.

84 FR 3444

EPA seeks comment on its Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2017; the document summarizes and presents annual U.S. emissions from 1990 through 2017 by sector, including source and sink categories.

83 FR 65424

EPA proposed revisions to its Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units Rule, which was promulgated on October 23, 2015.

The Impact of Climate Change on American and Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Their Water Resources

Access to water is a fundamental climate change issue in North America and internationally. It is related to significant political, social, and ecological struggles that indigenous peoples face, and governments and courts so far have done little to address these inequities.

82 FR 10767

EPA announced the availability of the draft of the "Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2015" for public comment.

81 FR 90669

The president issued Executive Order No. 13754, Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience, in order to conserve Arctic biodiversity; support and engage Alaska Native tribes; incorporate traditional knowledge into decisionmaking; and build a sustainable Arctic economy that relies on the highest safety and environmental standards, including adherence to national climate goals, in the northern Bering Sea region.

81 FR 40302

EPA seeks public comment on a draft document titled, "Evaluating Urban Resilience to Climate Change: A Multi-Sector Approach," which was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment, to help cities identify areas of resilience and vulnerability to climate change impacts.

81 FR 31633

EPA announced the availability of the document titled, “Stormwater Management in Response to Climate Change Impacts: Lessons From the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes Regions,” which addresses climate change in stormwater adaptation efforts.

81 FR 7497

USDA seeks public engagement on a special interagency report entitled the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report, which will focus on U.S. and North American carbon cycle processes, stocks, and flows in the context of and interactions with global scale budgets and climate change impacts in managed and unmanaged systems, including soils, water, vegetation, aquatic-terrestrial interfaces, human settlements, agriculture, and forestry.