Litigation Seeking to Establish Climate Change Impacts as a Common Law Nuisance

Meltz, Robert

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Environmental law and legislation;    Environmental protection;    Law;    Greenhouse gases;    Global climate change;   

RP-ID  :  R41496
RP-ID  :  R41496_2010Dec10

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses recent legislative initiatives seeking to establish climate change impacts as a common law nuisance. The report explains what private and public nuisances are, the issues faced by policymakers when litigating a climate-change/nuisance suit, and also discusses five climate-chance/nuisance suits that are now or formerly active, as a basis of comparison. The report also explores arguments of those both for and against addressing the complex issue of climate change through common law suits.