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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Legal Planet

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.

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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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War and the Environment

Legal Planet

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.

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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

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.

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The Winding Path of Australian Climate Policy

Legal Planet

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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The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math

Circle of Blue

Next week the federal government, for the first time, will likely declare a Tier 1 shortage on the lower Colorado River, opening a new chapter in the beleaguered river’s history and illustrating its vulnerability in a region that is drying because of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

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Our Satellite Database Reaches a Milestone. We’ve Learned Much Along the Way

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Satellite Database has subscribers from inside and outside governments from all over the globe. Since 2005, there have been destructive, space debris-producing anti-satellite weapons tests by China (2007), the United States (2008), India (2019), and Russia (2021).

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