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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule Must Respond to Emerging Legal Risks

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This blog post explores how the litigation landscape has developed since the SEC proposed the rule, and discusses the implications of several developing cases and doctrines. Ultimately, the SEC will have to anticipate these types of legal challenges in finalizing a durable rule. Other legal challenges have also arisen.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

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In 2021 the Biden Administration reversed the Trump-era rollbacks and instituted the strictest-ever vehicle GHG emissions standards in a move aimed at preventing 3.1 In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. Following the West Virginia decision, analysis of the MQD has proliferated as legal scholars grapple with the doctrine’s lack of definition. Env’t Prot.

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