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Federal court in New Jersey has not granted New Jersey's request for injunction blocking congestion pricing. Court told Federal Highway Admin to do some more paperwork, but left its approval standing. The legal pathway for congestion pricing to start on January 5 is now clear.

Federal judge rules that congestion pricing will move forward as scheduled on Sunday, striking down a last-ditch effort from New Jersey to stop it

Janno Lieber, addressing cameras: After untold numbers of lawsuits and lots of fighting in the press, the time for debating and lawsuits is over. It’s time to get to work making this new initiative a success for New York.

Fossil fuel industry made full-court press to get Supreme Court to take this case as an effort to block the 28 cases pending against them, mostly by states and cities, for climate damages. No dissents from cert denial.

NY climate law Sec. 75-0109.1 required regs by Jan. 2024 to achieve mandatory emissions reductions. A year after deadline, Hochul declares further delay. This violates explicit statutory requirement. No way has been shown to achieve required reductions without cap & invest.

Great NYT piece featuring the work of CSLDF in preparing for a repeat of the government-wide assault on science that occurred during the first Trump term. nytimes.com/2025/01/17/cli…

On 1/20/17 we launched the Climate Deregulation Tracker to monitor Trump's actions in rescinding climate regulations. It grew to 176 items. On 1/20/21 we rebranded it the Climate Reregulation Tracker. 214 items. Today we launch the Climate Backtracker. bit.ly/40FK6Aq

Here is my summary of the environmental, energy and climate provisions in the executive orders that Trump issued last night. bit.ly/4h1uux3 Bottom line: Doing everything they can to increase both supply of and demand for fossil fuels.

MTA statement on congestion pricing cancellation PIX11 News Dan Mannarino

Sabin Center analysis of the effect of House budget reconciliation bill on the Inflation Reduction Act. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/…

Enjoyed Bharat's talk at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Abundance event. Excellent summary ⤵️. His main point is that Abundance types should acknowledge tradeoffs. I agree! (Isn't "tradeoff denialism" -- h/t Michael Gerrard -- more characteristic of the proceduralist left?) 1/11

Many of Trump's attacks on climate science may violate several federal laws. My legal analysis: bit.ly/3SPIYFz

The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country! Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.

The right to a healthy environment is at the heart of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights powerful new ruling on the climate emergency. The right basically prohibits "anthropogenic conduct with an irreversible impact on the vital balance of the planetary ecosystem" More ...