The Status of Global Climate Change Legal Action: a New Report by Jennifer Danis and Romany Webb |January 27, 2021
Countries around the world are increasingly setting national emissions reductions targets and articulating policy objectives to address climate change impacts. As they do, a broad set of actors are turning to courts to seek enforcement of existing climate laws, to articulate clearer definitions of climate rights, to ask for compensation for a variety of climate harms and, on the other side of things, to demand relief from policies seen as overly ambitious. Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, has published a survey of global climate change litigation that provides an overview of existing cases and a discussion of their key legal issues: Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review.
Federal energy commission opts not to consider PennEast Pipeline a day before Biden becomes president
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
A sign June 29, 2016, on Hewitt Road in Hunterdon County show opposition to the proposed PennEast Pipeline.TT TT Michael Mancuso
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday opted not to consider an amended proposal for a controversial $1 billion natural gas pipeline that would traverse across New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley.
In September of last year, the commission issued an environmental assessment of PennEast’s amended proposal to split the project into two phases with new interconnection facilities at Church Road in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania.
N.J. presses Supreme Court not to hear PennEast Pipeline case after feds throw support behind it
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
The New Jersey Attorney General is urging the Supreme Court not to review and overturn a federal appeals court ruling issued last year against a $1 billion natural gas pipeline that will run through New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley.
The Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in September 2019 that the PennEast Pipeline cannot seize New Jersey-owned land in order to build the gas line. Citing the Eleventh Amendment, the decision held that PennEast cannot use eminent domain on state land under the legal doctrine of sovereign immunity, which exempts New Jersey from condemnation lawsuits initiated by private parties like PennEast.
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