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The Securities and Exchange Commission Finalizes a Narrower Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Rule

On March 6, 2024, the SEC narrowly voted to release its long-awaited final climate-related risk disclosure rule requiring public companies to report on material climate-related risks that affect the business and, for some large companies, greenhouse gas emissions. Sara Dewey, senior staff attorney with the Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program, reviews key components of the rule, including its legal authority, changes from the proposal, and the legal challenges already underway.
Cluster Research News
Wed, Mar 27, 2024

Litigation Updates on California’s New Climate Disclosure Laws

In late 2023, California passed two laws that will require public and private companies that do business in California to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and their climate-related financial risks. In January 2024, business groups filed a complaint challenging the laws. Sara Dewey and Abby Husselbee, attorneys at the Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program, explain the First Amendment, federal preemption, and dormant Commerce Clause challenges to these laws.
Cluster Research News
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
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A New Era in Space-Based Methane-Emissions Detection

On March 4, 2024 MethaneSAT – an innovative space-based system for detecting methane emissions and identifying their sources – launched on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.
Action Accelerator Cluster Research News Methane
Thu, Mar 14, 2024
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Methane sensors are finding dangerous pollutants in low-income neighborhoods

When methane leaks, it is often accompanied by other toxins more hazardous to human health. New remote sensing technologies help stop both at the source.
Cluster Research News Harvard Research Methane
Wed, Mar 13, 2024

Research Brief: EPA’s Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Methane Emission Rules

The Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions has released a research brief titled “EPA’s Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Methane Emission Rules.” The brief provides an account of the recent evolution of regulation in the United States to address methane emissions from landfills. An earlier version of the brief was prepared in support of a convening on methane emissions from landfills conducted by the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP) in January 2024. The workshop –and the brief – were supported by the Salata Institute through the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions. The brief was written by Carrie Jenks and Hannah Dobie, Executive Director and Staff Attorney, respectively, at EELP.
Cluster Research News White Paper Methane
Mon, Mar 11, 2024
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Hooking a new livelihood? Collapse of West Africa fisheries forces adaptation

As fish stocks in the Gulf of Guinea fail, Harvard researchers are studying how young people can adapt to the market upheaval.
Cluster Research News
Tue, Feb 20, 2024

Global and US Methane Emissions Reduction Progress

Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor and Director of the Environment & Energy Law Program (EELP) at Harvard Law School, hosted a podcast on December 28, 2023 that provided an insightful and wide-ranging overview of global and U.S. developments in reducing methane emissions.
Cluster Research News Harvard Research Methane
Tue, Feb 13, 2024
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Managing planetary health in an era of climate crisis

Climate change and public health demand a new architecture for collaboration.
Cluster Research News
Mon, Feb 12, 2024

Methane Initiative Collaborator Releases Legal Analysis of IRA's Methane Fee

Carrie Jenks, a legal scholar participating in the Salata Institute Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, has posted a brief titled “The Inflation Reduction Act’s Waste Emission Charge for Methane Emissions—What Did Congress Require and How is EPA Proposing to Implement the Program?” Jenks is Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Environment and Energy Law Program, which released the brief.
Cluster Research News White Paper Methane
Tue, Feb 6, 2024

In E&E News: Harvard Study Documents 'Extreme' Methane Bursts

Featured today in E&E News: New Harvard-led research demonstrates a new method of methane emissions monitoring, revealing massive methane releases over short periods of time, including an extreme 3-hour methane release from a natural gas pipeline in Durango, Mexico.
Cluster Research News Methane
Tue, Jan 2, 2024

Harvard delegates reflect on COP28

Faculty returning from Dubai discuss their experiences at COP28, and how attending propels their ongoing efforts to forge climate solutions.
Cluster Research News COP28 Methane
Wed, Dec 13, 2023

Financing climate adaptation in the developing world

While experts from West Africa and South Asia wish to prioritize climate adaptation, Western finance overwhelmingly favors mitigation, they told a Harvard workshop hosted by two Salata Institute climate research clusters.
Cluster Research News
Thu, Dec 7, 2023