Climate Change Policy and Regulation
Climate change policy is now taking center stage in Congress and throughout the U.S. For corporations, trade associations and nonprofits, successfully advancing climate-related policy and business agendas will depend on having access to accurate political and regulatory intelligence, and knowing how best to leverage that information. We are recognized as a leading resource for timely guidance, substantive counsel and—most importantly—excellent results in Congress, agencies and statehouses across the country, and particularly in California.
Our diverse practice of lawyers and policy professionals offers clients comprehensive political experience earned working in high-profile federal, state and local political positions. Our bipartisan national team of public policy specialists includes a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the former head of White House Legislative Affairs, a former congressman, top legal officials of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, congressional office chiefs of staff and veteran political strategists. That team is now involved in the legislative debate on federal legislation.
AB 32
As California is wont to do in environmental matters, it passed the first legislation to address climate change issues, the "Clean Cars Bill", in 2002. That legislation led to AB 32 (also known as the Global Warming Solutions Act), adopted in 2006, which sets forth an ambitious program to establish requirements for stationary sources. A member of our Climate Change Group served as the strategist for the environmental coalition that sponsored the Clean Cars Bill and has been helping to shape climate change policy in California ever since.
We remain on the forefront of this area of law, and continue to be involved in monitoring and affecting the development of that regulatory program and these issues. As a result, we are in a unique position to help our clients develop and maintain relationships with key government and environmental leaders, provide critical tools to help successfully navigate the political/governmental waters in California, and help develop strategic messages.
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