{"id":2714,"date":"2018-05-10T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:49:53","slug":"center-for-biological-diversity-intent-to-sue-us-state-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2018\/05\/10\/center-for-biological-diversity-intent-to-sue-us-state-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Biological Diversity Intent to Sue US State Dept!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of this letter to the US State Department, the Center for Biological Diversity delivers its Notice  of  Intent  to File  Suit  with  Respect  to the  Overdue Seventh  U.S.  Climate  Action  Report<br \/>\nas Required under the  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>Addressed to Secretary Tillerson, the letter states that it is the Center&#8217;s notice of &#8220;intent to sue the State Department for failure to issue the Seventh U.S.  Climate  Action  Report by  January  1,  2018, as  mandated under the  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( \u201cUNFCCC\u201d or \u201cthe Convention\u201d ).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Center cites the passage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/100th-congress\/senate-bill\/420\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global Climate Protection Act of 1987<\/a> as the instrument that designated the State Department as the lead agency for U.S. compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full letter here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/18-02-05-Tillerson-Letter-UNFCCC-Climate-Action-Report.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tillerson Letter from UN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States ratified  the with the advice and consent of the Senate (Treaty Document 102-38, October 7, 1992). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/treaty-document\/102nd-congress\/38\/resolution-text\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The UNFCCC entered into force in 1994<\/a>.   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsdl.org\/?view&#038;did=792243\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Update 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of this letter to the US State Department, the Center for Biological Diversity delivers its Notice of Intent to File Suit with Respect to the Overdue Seventh U.S. Climate Action Report as Required under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Addressed to Secretary Tillerson, the letter states that it is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-international","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}