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

Meltz, Robert

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Climatic changes;    Global climate change;    Global warming;    Air pollution;    Litigation;   

RP-ID  :  R41496
RP-ID  :  R41496_2011May9

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

There are five common law/nuisance suits addressing climate change now or formerly active. Of the three no longer active, none were successful. Of the two still-active cases, one has recently leaped to center stage because the Supreme Court agreed to hear it. In Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co., Inc., eight states sued five utility companies alleged to be emitting the most GHGs in the nation through their coal-fired electric power plants. Following a Second Circuit decision, the Supreme Court agreed on December 6, 2010, to resolve threshold issues in this case.