| Description: | This report discusses recent legislative initiatives seeking to establish climate change impacts as a common law nuisance. The report explains what private and public nuisances are, the issues faced by policymakers when litigating a climate-change/nuisance suit, and also discusses five climate-chance/nuisance suits that are now or formerly active, as a basis of comparison. The report also explores arguments of those both for and against addressing the complex issue of climate change through common law suits. |
|---|---|
| Creator(s): | Meltz, Robert |
| Location(s): | United States |
| Creation Date: | November 19, 2010 |
| Partner(s): |
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
|
| Collection(s): |
Congressional Research Service Reports
Environmental Policy Collection
|
| Usage: |
Total Uses: 30
Past 30 days: 0
Yesterday: 0
|
| Creator (Author): |
Meltz, Robert
Legislative Attorney/Acting Section Research Manager |
|
|---|---|---|
| Publisher Info: |
Publisher Name: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
|
|
| Date(s): |
|
|
| Coverage: |
|
|
| Description: | This report discusses recent legislative initiatives seeking to establish climate change impacts as a common law nuisance. The report explains what private and public nuisances are, the issues faced by policymakers when litigating a climate-change/nuisance suit, and also discusses five climate-chance/nuisance suits that are now or formerly active, as a basis of comparison. The report also explores arguments of those both for and against addressing the complex issue of climate change through common law suits. |
|
| Physical Description: |
9 pages. |
|
| Language(s): | ||
| Subject(s): |
|
|
| Partner: |
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
|
|
| Collection: |
Congressional Research Service Reports
|
|
| Collection: |
Environmental Policy Collection
|
|
| Identifier: |
|
|
| Resource Type: | Text | |
| Format: | Text | |
