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Feed It to the Ocean: The Federal Approach to Decommissioning in Alaska Native Climate Adaptation Projects
This Article calls on the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to issue guidance clarifying that concurrent decommissioning is a “connected action” under the National Environmental Policy Act for relocation, managed retreat, and protect-in-place projects aimed at replacing infrastructure in environmentally threatened Alaska Native communities.
G.B. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
A district court granted EPA's and OMB's motion to dismiss a challenge brought by California youth against certain agency policies for allegedly undervaluing the lives of children in cost-benefit analyses and thus harming them by failing to resolve the climate crisis. The youth argued the policies v...
Chamber of Commerce v. California Air Resources Board
A district court granted the state of California's motion to dismiss a challenge to two California laws—SB 253, Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, and SB 261, Greenhouse Gases: Climate-Related Financial Risk—that require large businesses to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emission...
Spraying the Skies: Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Human Rights
Little has been said on how the just transition to a decarbonized world relates to the human right, recently recognized by the United Nations General Assembly, to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. This Article explores this relationship and how to build a framework that guides current and future climate change endeavors. It argues that the human right’s substantive and procedural content must incorporate just transition claims, which would help resolve whether and how to advocate for specific climate measures.