A legal perspective on adapting to climate change

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Randy Bramer, USDA Office of General Counsel, Golden, CO

About This Presentation

Running time: 17 minutes and 55 seconds

This is part of a collection. See more from Adapting to Climate Change in National Forests.

Topics covered:

• Climate Change and Water
• Climate Change Litigation
• Overview
• Is Climate Change Real?
• It's Real to the Federal Courts
• Present Litigation
• NEPA
• Climate Change Litigation Chart
• Statutory Claims
• NEPA Cases
• Center for Biological Diversity
• NHTSA cont
• Case Studies
• Delta Smelt
• Habitat
• NRDC v. Kempthorne
• Kempthorne cont.
• Pac. Coast
• Gutierrez cont.
• Forest Fires
• Hapner v. Tidwell
• Tidwell cont.
• Grizzly Bears
• The White Bark Pine
• Greater Yellowstone Coalition v. Servheen
• Servheen, cont.
• 2007 NW Forest Plan Revisions
• Conservation Northwest v. Rey
• Oil and Gas Development
• Molloy suspends oil and gas leases
• Oil and Gas Cont.
• Future Litigation
• What Can You Do?
• Need for Field Data
• Monitoring
• Prepare for Conflicts
• Inventory Water Uses
• Instream Flows
• Third Parties
• Learn More

Production by: Michael Furniss and Jeffrey Guntle, Communications and Applications, PNW and PSW Research Stations

Video by: Ben Nieves, Oregon Street Studios