By Michael Gerrard
This column surveys the emergence of these new guidelines, which is occurring against a backdrop of accelerated activity in both Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with the vigorous support of President Barack Obama, leading toward federal regulation of GHGs. The world community is also preparing for the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in November-December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to devise a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Published in Volume 241 of New York Law Journal.
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