Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2007). This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement. Still, theres no denying its importance.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Industry can’t even agree with itself about this effect. Source: ERM 2022 ).
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Legal Planet
MAY 31, 2021
The Costs of War Project says illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan’s forests to vanish between 1990 and 2007. It does seem likely to increase the odds of armed conflict in combination with weak economies, ethnic conflict, and impaired governance.
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The proposed changes demonstrate the Government of Ontario’s persistence in prioritizing harmful projects over protection of even the very rarest of species and ecosystems. The MECP’s proposal makes clear that the Ontario government cares little about the unpayable costs of biodiversity loss.
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 31, 2024
CNRL is a member of the Pathways Alliance – a tar sands lobby group that is trying to rebrand this polluting industry as a clean one while pushing back against government climate action behind closed doors. He spent years giving encouragement for the federal government to approve and build the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 2, 2021
A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. The 2007 Interim Guidelines , which expire at the end of 2025, were a landmark document that secured three substantial changes.
Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.
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