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 Stories About: climate AND litigation AND politics AND shenanigans
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Bar wars
Legal strategies for battling climate change |
Joseph Romm |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. When President Bush delivered his much-hyped climate policy speech from the Rose Garden last April (see here), he voiced an interesting concern. He's worried that the courts will do what the other two branches of government have failed to do: take meaningful action to curb the country's carbon emissions. "We face a growing problem here at h ... |
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| Topics: climate, litigation, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Let the sunshine in
Judicial ethics and global warming |
Guest author |
30 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This is a guest post from Sean Siperstein, a Research and Communications Associate at Community Rights Counsel, a DC-based public interest law firm that works to defend environmental laws. He also writes for WarmingLaw. ----- Community Rights Counsel has spent much of the last decade researching and documenting undue, anti-environmental corporate influence on the federal judiciary, exposing the proliferation of privately-funded junkets billed as "jud ... |
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| Topics: shenanigans, politics, litigation, climate (all these topics) |
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