Thursday
Jan282010
U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals Allow Tort-Based Litigation for Damages Arising From Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 1:44PM While legislation to regulate greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions may be facing an uphill battle in the Senate, lawsuits claiming global warming damages are becoming a real issue for emitters of GHGs. In late 2009, two circuits of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals made threshold determinations that plaintiffs in suits based on global warming had standing to bring such claims into court.