Broschiertes Buch

Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, Third Edition

Beschreibung

The legal landscape around climate change is complex, unstable, and expanding. Scientists continue to publish new findings, policy makers regularly adopt new regulations, and petitioners file new litigation, nationwide and around the world. Hence the need for this third edition. Most of it is completely new, and the few chapters carried over from the second edition have been thoroughly updated. This edition explores the following topics: Overview and Context: * Introduction and The Multilateral Climate Regime U.S. Federal Regulation and Litigation: * Evolution of U.S. Climate Law and Policy * Regulation of Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act * Non-CO2 Pollutants * Environmental Impact Assessment * Climate Justice * Endangered Species Act * Climate-Related Financial Risk Management and Disclosure * Civil Remedies Regional, State, and Local Actions: * State and Multistate Climate Action * Local Initiatives Energy Regulation * Electricity Regulation, Markets, and Governance * Land Use and Transportation Policies Addressing Climate Change The Next Legal Frontiers * Carbon Capture and Sequestration and Carbon Dioxide Removal * Agriculture * Climate Change and Public Natural Resources * Climate Adaptation Law * U.S. Climate Change Law and Policy: Taking Stock

Autor

Michael Burger is the Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School. He is co-author of Urban Climate Law (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), and editor of Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act: Law and Policy Rationales (Edward Elgar, 2020) and Climate Change, Public Health and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is a Fellow and Regent of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Bar Association
• Seitenzahl: 756
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1293g
• ISBN-13: 9781639052196
• ISBN-10: 1639052194
• Artikelnr.: 68585193