Litigation Seeking to Establish Climate Change Impacts as a Common Law Nuisance
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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 com…
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Date:
November 19, 2010
Creator:
Meltz, Robert
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department