Civil Litigation,
Government,
Environmental & Energy
Nov. 6, 2019
California’s cap and trade agreement with Quebec: Treaty with a foreign government?
The Trump administration, through the Department of Justice, has sued California, alleging that the state’s Quebec agreement is a “Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation,” and therefore runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s treaty clause prohibition on a state entering into such agreement.
Joshua A. Bloom
Principal
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson PLC
environmental law
555 12th St Ste 1500
Oakland , CA 94607
Phone: (800) 464-3559
Fax: (510) 444-1108
Email: jbloom@meyersnave.com
University of San Francisco School of Law
Joshua is in the firm's Land Use and Environmental Law Practice Groups. With more than 25 years of experience, he specializes in all areas of state and federal environmental and natural resources law, including complex environmental litigation, brownfields, environmental aspects of transactional matters, and compliance counseling, representing both public and private clients.
California has long been at the forefront of national environmental regulation, and its actions to cap greenhouse gas emissions is no exception. California's cap-and-trade program, known as Assembly Bill 32, enacted in 2006 and signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, was a bold effort that sought by 2020 to reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels. That law has since been amended to seek to reduce by 40% overall GHG emissions by 2030.
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