Climate Change Law Blog
The Climate Change Law Blog is a service of Holland & Hart's climate change group. It is "dedicated to the fast-emerging legal and strategic corporate challenges posed by climate change."
Author: One of the authors is James A. Holtkamp, the manager of the environmental compliance group at Holland & Hart, working in the firm's Salt Lake City office.
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Recent Posts from Climate Change Law Blog
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CO2 Controls for Power Plants Now? A Good Idea?
As you may know, one of the immediate issues being discussed and litigated in the area of climate change is the imposition of CO2 controls on the Desert Rock power plant in New Mexico simply…
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The Colorado Carbon Fund - Project C
By Tasha Newland Project C, or the Colorado Carbon Fund, is a voluntary carbon offset program developed by the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office (“GEO”). Project C was initiated by the GEO in August 2008 and…
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Proposed Actions Involving GHGs Not Subject to ESA Consultation
On October 3, 2008, the Department of the Interior (“DOI”) issued a Solicitor’s Opinion concluding that proposed actions involving the emission of greenhouse gases (“GHGs”) do not meet the “may affect” threshold set forth in…
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Cap-and-Trade Arrives in the West: Western Climate Initiative Releases its Initial Design Recommendations for Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reductions
By Giji John September 25, 2008 On September 23, 2008, the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) issued its “Design Recommendations for the WCI Regional Cap-and-Trade Program” (available at www.westernclimateinitiative.org). WCI’s Design Recommendations are intended to effect…
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Costa Rica – A Small Country With A Big Vision
I am sitting on a veranda on the slopes of Rincon de La Vieja Volcano in Costa Rica, about 45 miles south of the border with Nicaragua. We are in the midst of a protected…
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EPA Releases Proposed Carbon Sequestration Regulations
On July 15, EPA Administrator Steven Johnson signed a proposed rulemaking package, which would regulate geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide under the Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Program of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The proposed…
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EPA Climate Change ANPR Released
On Friday, July 11, the Environmental Protection Agency released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) seeking comment on a large number of issues concerning regulation of greenhouse gas emissions (“GHGs”) under the Clean Air…
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The Silent Elephant
In his book The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, eminent anthropologist Brian Fagan describes the period from about 800 to 1200 AD, in which a small increase in average…
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Secretary Kempthorne Announces Listing of Polar Bear as Threatened Under the Endangered Species Act, But Attempts to Limit the Listing’s Role in Regulating Climate Change
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced on May 14, 2008 that he is accepting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) recommendation to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.…
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Beware of People With Agendas
Last week a major world leader outlined a series of policy steps to stop the increase in the emissions of greenhouse gases in his country and then to reduce those emissions. He suggested a timetable…