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Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

About the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxi

About the Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

CHAPTER 1

Global Climate Change Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

James L. Arnone, Beth A. Collins-Burgard, and Ryan R. Waterman

I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II. Global Climate Change and Its Anticipated Effects . . . . . . . . . 2

III. Case Study: Current State and Regional Efforts to Address

Global Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

A. California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

B. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

IV. Litigation Involving Global Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

A. Standing in Climate Change Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

B. Actions against Industry Claiming Clean Air Act

Violations for GHG Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

C. Challenges to Federal and State Action and Inaction

Regarding GHG Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1. Federal Action and Inaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3

a. Massachusetts v. EPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

b. Clean Air Act Regulation after Massachusetts

v. EPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

c. Energy-Efficiency Standards for Utility

Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2. State Regulatory Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

a. Background on California’s Regulations and

Waiver Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

b. Suits Regarding California’s Waiver Request . . . 17