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After Championing Greener Building Codes, Local Governments Lose Right To Vote
The nonprofit consortium that oversees much of the nation s building codes just gave the construction and gas industries more control over the process.
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The International Code Council, a nonprofit that oversees building codes for much of the Americas, has implemented a change that environmental advocates say is one of the most consequential roadblocks to decarbonizing the U.S. economy.
The private consortium that oversees the model building codes for much of the United States and parts of the Caribbean and Latin America on Thursday
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Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Baltimore storm damage. Photo credit: Associated Press
A Baltimore street collapsed into a sinkhole after severe storms and flooding ripped through the city in 2014. The city is suing oil companies in an effort to make them pay for damages related to climate change. Associated Press
The outcome of a Supreme Court battle between Baltimore officials and Big Oil over climate change impacts could reverberate in courtrooms across the country, legal experts say.
As the high court deliberates its ruling in
BP PLC v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a host of other lawsuits aimed at holding the fossil fuel industry liable for the local effects of global warming are slogging through preliminary procedural battles. The Supreme Court s decision has the potential to further delay or derail those cases.
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More than five years ago, 21 youths ranging in age from 8 to 19 asked a federal court to declare
a habitable environment a protected right under the US Constitution. Early on.
wink and a
nod giving the impression it was a feel-good human-interest story about kids. Nothing could’ve been further from the truth.
As it survived one legal challenge after another, the case came to be recognized for
what it could be
the most important environmental law case of all time. One equal in stature to
Governors Wind Energy Coalition
Meet the climate veteran in Biden’s West Wing Source: By Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2021
David Hayes, a former deputy Interior secretary in the Obama administration, will serve as a climate adviser to President Biden. Tami A. Heilemann/U.S. Department of the Interior/Flickr
President Biden’s climate team consists of veterans from past battles and fresh faces in the environmental movement.
David Hayes, special assistant to the president for climate policy, brings decades of political experience to the White House, having fought polluting industries and Trump administration policies.
A two-time Interior deputy secretary, Hayes is a distinguished member of the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, which is directed by Gina McCarthy and Ali Zaidi, her deputy.