Congress Cannot Wait for Courts to Create Climate Change Policy
The American Security Project today released a new Perspectives piece, authored by ASP Adjunct Policy Analyst Justin S. Rubin and ASP Senior Fellow Dr. Bernard I. Finel, which responds to the increasing number of lawsuits seeking to assign liability to companies for emissions that have helped cause climate change.
The report, entitled: Congress Cannot Wait for Courts to Create Climate Change Policy, calls for Congress to pass comprehensive national climate change legislation to address the significant risk climate change poses to the country before court decisions create a patchwork of policies that differ from state to state. The report also rejects the idea of granting immunity from such lawsuits to energy and utility companies, saying such immunity would encourage distortions in market decisions and unfairly privilege them over individuals and other industries.
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