Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

This blog explores how Chile is navigating this complex terrain, examining the environmental impacts of lithium mining, the legal and political responses to social resistance, and the deeper tensions between economic ambition, Indigenous rights, and ecological stewardship. Since 1979, Decree Law No. Albemarle Ltda.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. This year’s projections are a bit grim. We’re risking more impacts from climate change due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

The Court further ruled that the State is obliged to adopt climate change measures arising from international law and generally accepted scientific standards. The Court interpreted the Paris Agreement as imposing an obligation to implement mitigation measures to achieve the NDCs.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. I also wrote a post on this topic in 2005 ( Naturally trendy? ), and even if it is a blog, it could provide some clues for Dagsvik and Moen.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Repeated attempts to pass anti-protest legislation in Minnesota during the resistance to Enbridge’s Line 3 failed, but the pipeline was completed in 2021 and 60% of US oil and gas operations are now shielded by these laws. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. In past rulemakings, CARB accounted for this policy overlap by only including climate benefits that exceed those required by federal law.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. Status of Wind Energy in the Gulf of Mexico. 585.107(f).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. Despite the IRA’s substantial assist to emission cuts, we will need additional policies to push emissions 50% below 2005 levels. emissions 37-41% below 2005 levels. decarbonization.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

We must apply the laws that the Legislature has written to the facts in the record. Factual and Procedural Background UC campuses are required by law to periodically adopt LRDPs to guide their decisions on land and infrastructure development. Our task is limited.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The claim is grounded on the constitutionally recognized right to a healthy environment; fundamental rights such as the right to life, dignity, health, food, and housing; along with several recognized principles of international environmental law and international climate change commitments. In PSB et al. Brazil (on Amazon Fund).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Between January 1, 2005 and November 1, 2022, DEP said it received and resolved 4,859 water supply contamination complaints for both conventional oil and gas and unconventional shale gas well drilling. Coterra entered a plea to Prohibition Against Discharge of Industrial Wastes, a violation of the Clean Streams Law. Williams, Esq.,

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The law will provide $379 billion in subsidies to clean energy in the form of direct payments and tax credits. The most recent report , from a Princeton research group, concludes that IRA would: cut annual emissions in 2030 by an additional ~1 billion metric tons below current policy (including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law).

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Arctic Law & Policy Institute, explains why. _. Certain states, including Alaska, wrote individualized versions the public trust into their constitutions, laws, and court decisions. The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. 3d 745,755 (Alaska 2005). [23].

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 Not so in the modern day, however.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

On the cusp of these two regulatory programs, pushing broad sectors of the economy to the next frontier in innovation, SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative at a Cost and Maryland Resets its Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law , a quick 800 word refresher about GHG emissions makes an ideal blog post.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Intriguingly, these scientific studies took on a wider political importance during the Second World War. Viewed in this way, the problem was “solved” by the Scandinavian physicists Boris Gudiksen and Åke Nordlund in 2005, who used just 3.375 million cells. But is their invocation of Kolmogorov’s argument correct? The jury is still out.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

This decision allows what is known as the “back-loading” proposal to proceed to further negotiations with the European Council to reach a commonly approved text that could become law in the future. The proposal was then sent to the European Parliament’s Environmental Committee for re-assessment.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

British American Tobacco accused of bribing senior politicians in order to sabotage anti-smoking laws Jonathan Owen | The Independent | November 30, 2019 British American Tobacco, one of Britain’s biggest companies, has been accused of bribing senior politicians and civil servants in a bid to sabotage anti-smoking laws.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party. percent (£1.8

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“We call on all our leaders, regardless of their political stripe, to come together to ensure every child has the hope and expectation of a safe climate and pollution-free world. Once signed into law, Build Back Better will create jobs, improve the economy, and build more resilient communities, all while addressing the climate crisis.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As China’s Communist Party increases its political grip, it has been nearly impossible for foreign NGOs to operate effectively in the country and Chinese elites now chafe at requirements that they pass regular tutorials in “XI Jinping Thought.” The country’s strengthened environmental laws seem to be producing results.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

EQT noted "China's current energy mix mirrors that of Pennsylvania and Ohio in 2005" saying with US-supplied natural gas, China could replicate the model for emissions reduction. CEO Toby Rice argued China needs US natural gas to reduce its dependency on the use of coal to generate electricity and reduce power plant emissions. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“The impact of groundwater pumping on basin aquifers during ongoing drought conditions is largely unknown and continued reliance may not be sustainable,” cautioned a report on the water bank published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2005. We have federal water rights that aren’t being protected properly under state law.”.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Maria Antonia Tigre, Global Climate Litigation Fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Notably, the Philippines Supreme Court has explicitly held the CHR’s jurisdiction is only limited to investigating civil and political rights (see Simon v. Antoine De Spiegeleir, PhD researcher at the European University Institute*.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- American College Of Environmental Lawyers: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding For Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Operations & Maintenance -- U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Of Interior Announces Over $1.5 Of Interior Announces Over $1.5

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Act’s regulations were last updated in 2005. Independent agencies like the Fed and FDIC are bipartisan: for example the FDIC is required by law to have no more than three members of the Board of Directors from a single political party. Robust regulation is the best alternative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act”) is the law that gives the President the authority to provide disaster response, recovery and preparedness assistance to state, local, tribal, or territorial (SLTT) governments. The Stafford Act (officially, the “Robert T.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In its first 100 days in office, the Biden-Harris Administration has already proposed or passed sweeping reforms in federal laws and policies, with many more campaign promises still in process. Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Arnold & Porter, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2016–2018). Christopher J.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. For background on the REPS law, see an earlier post on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to repeal the REPS standard.)

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