Next Steps: Implementation of the Common Law Initiative

    November 26, 2021

Since the announcement of the Common Law Initiative several months ago a number of actions were taken.

The Common Law Initiative was promoted on the CRE website.

The aforementioned announcement resulted in hundreds of hits each day on the CRE website for nearly a week. Several weeks later it was announced on the SSRN ejournal, administrative law, which also resulted in a very substantial number of hits.

2.  What were the reactions to the Common Law Initiative?

A new Supreme Court case could gut the government’s power to fight climate change

Reprinted from Vox

 

The Supreme Court announced late last week that it will hear four very similar cases — all likely to be consolidated under the name West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency — which could prove to be some of the most consequential court decisions in recent US history.

That’s a bold statement, so allow me to explain.

The cases are the latest chapter in the seemingly never-ending litigation over the Clean Power Plan, arguably former President Barack Obama’s boldest effort to fight climate change. Though the plan was never implemented, it still exists in a zombie-like state. A federal appeals court decision revived the plan last January, but the Biden administration said in February that it would not reinstate Obama’s policy.