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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status.

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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Cultural rights include the right to freedom for scientific research and creative activity, and the right to participate in cultural life. World Heritage cities such as Venice, Italy, and Hoi An, Vietnam, are threatened.

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Critical Native American Water Rights Cases Come Before the Supreme Court: Arizona v. Navajo Nation

Legal Planet

In 2003, the Navajo Nation filed suit in federal court, claiming that the federal government had breached its trust obligations to the Nation by not granting it adequate water rights from the Colorado River system managed by the Department of the Interior.

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What Firefighters Can Teach Us about Preparing the Grid for Extreme Weather

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was only after the 2003 Northeast blackout that federal law required reliability standards to be mandatory and carry inescapable penalties. For much of the 120-year history of electric power companies, regional reliability standards and coordinated operations have been voluntary.

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Texas Correction Deed Statute Revisited

Energy & the Law

In 2003 the Holcomb’s and Tom and Trudy Anderson signed a farm and ranch sale contract in which the Anderson’s were to acquire surface rights only in six tracts of a ranch and Holcomb’s were to reserve the minerals. The 2003 GWD conveyed the surface only. Trudy did not execute the correction deed because she had passed away.

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Retired Environmental Hearing Board Chief Judge Thomas W. Renwand To Receive PA Bar Assn. Environmental & Energy Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award

PA Environment Daily

Renwand will receive the 2024 Pennsylvania Bar Association Environmental and Energy Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award during the Environmental Law Forum , April 10, at the Hilton Harrisburg. Judge Renwand served on the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board from 1995 until his retirement in February 2003.

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A Buried Treasure Trove of NEPA Documents

Law Columbia

Back in 2003, Michael Herz and I wrote an article calling for the creation of an online, word searchable database of environmental impact statements that had been prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its state equivalents.

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