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  • CPR Initiative’s Third Public Hearing on Climate Action

    We are pleased to announce publication of our Third Public Hearing on Climate Action. Please see here for the full archive. (The hearing index to it is still…

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  • Not a King, and Not Immune:
    the DC Circuit Court’s Clarion Order

    On Tuesday, in a closely reasoned and narrow ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously rejected the most extravagant assertions of immunity from…

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  • Watch the Recording: CPR Initiative’s 3rd Public Hearing on Climate Action

    Held on January 25, 2024 at the Community Environmental Hub, in Santa Barbara, California. Co-hosted by CPR Initiative and the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara.

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  • Contending with Global Warming in the Pipeline,
    and Beyond

    At the outset of COP28, CPR Initiative’s Dan Galpern warned that the nations had “better not fail,” and specifically pointed to the recent study, “Global Warming in the…

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  • COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

    by Justin Catanoso on 13 December 2023 originally published on Mongabay Even as organizers of the UN climate summit in Dubai, known as COP28, cheered a “breakthrough” agreement “transitioning away…

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  • Tipping Again

    On December 6, 2023, smack dab in the middle of COP28, a powerful, clearly written, and rather comprehensive report, Global Tipping Points, was released by the University of…

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  • A Petrostate-Captured COP

    In my last post, here, I raised what I considered a singularly-critical question arising  from the recently-concluded COP28:  Why did the recently-concluded 28th Conference of the Parties to…

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  • Was it the ‘Beginning of the End’? COP28 & the Aspirational Fossil Fuel Phase Out

    I fervently hoped to be proven wrong. In a blog post on Nov. 30, two days before my arrival in Dubai, I had predicted that the 28th Conference…

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  • New and Young Voters: Do not Sit It Out

    I direct myself to new and young eligible voters in the United States, though I speak today from Dubai—a city-state that is suffused right now with a toxic…

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  • 3rd CPR Initiative Hearing on Climate Action

    CPR Initiative Public Hearing on Climate Action in Santa Barbara, California on January 25, 2024. Co-hosted by the Community Environmental Council.

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  • Breathless in Dubai

    The relevant authorities here declared yesterday to be “COP28 Health Day.” An explanation is warranted. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC, or “Framework Convention”) was produced…

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  • A Debacle Brewing in Dubai

    We are sleepwalking towards catastrophe no longer. . . . Instead, we are now sprinting toward it, eyes wide open.

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  • Time to “sit up and take notice”

    James Hansen warns of global warming in the pipeline The renowned climate scientist James E. Hansen, along with a slew of colleagues, have gone and done it again.…

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  • Watch the Recording: CPR Initiative’s Second Public Hearing on Climate Action

    Held on September 29, 2023 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Co-hosted by CPR Initiative, the Environmental Law Program at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law, and…

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  • “Let Us Bend the Arc of History”

    Joe Biden, September 19, 2023 at the UN General Assembly

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  • University of Pennsylvania Public Lecture

    September 20, 2023 | 12PM to 1PM

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  • Community Climate Action Meeting, Honolulu

    September 26, 2023 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm Church of the Crossroads, Honolulu, Hawai’i

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  • People’s Hearing on Climate Action

    CPR Initiative Public Hearing on Climate Action in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 29, 2023. Co-hosted by the Environmental Law Program at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson…

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  • Not…Nearly…Enough: EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Rule

    Without a corresponding constriction on US production of fossil fuels, their lessened use in the United States may result in an increase, perhaps a substantial increase, in the…

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  • Our Planet, On Fire

    Wildland fires in Canada were tamped down a bit last week, particularly in north-central Quebec where a large low-pressure system was “wandering around the Hudson Bay area,” delivering…

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  • Plaintiffs Regroup

    In May, together with the United States Department of Justice, we filed a “Joint Stipulation of Dismissal” of our federal lawsuit. We can summarize the proceedings to that…

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  • “Moments of Crushing Guilt”

    A bench trial began on Monday in Helena before Judge Kathy Seeley of the Montana First Judicial District Court. In Held v. State of Montana, the question now…

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  • Major Questions on Climate & the Environment

    Implicating the Supreme Court and the Nation

    What is the United States Supreme Court up to, with respect to the climate and environmental crises? Is its conservative majority hell-bent on inserting itself as the nation’s…

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  • CPR Initiative on The Radio with Ecotopia KZFR 90.1

    Listen to KZFR 90.1 Chico, Ecotopia’s recording from Tuesday, March 21, 2023. General Counsel & Executive Director of CPR Initiative Dan Galpern spoke with Ecotopia hosts Susan and…

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