Book contents
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
9 - Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
from Part I - The Costs of Precautionary Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2021
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
Summary
Long before the Obama administration EPA’s Endangerment Finding, early IPCC assessment reports were a call to action for American tort lawyers. After all, the IPCC ARs attributed all sorts of human and environmental harms to climate change, and confidently linked climate change to anthropogenic CO2 emissions. These reports thus established a causal connection between CO2 emissions and harm. Such a causal connection held out the prospect of holding CO2 emitters legally liable under American tort law for harm from climate change.
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- Climate RationalityFrom Bias to Balance, pp. 227 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021