Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Supreme Court tends to get all the attention, but for every Supreme Court opinion on environmental law there are probably fifty opinions in the lower federal courts. Collectively, the lower courts have done fat least as much to shape the law than the Supreme Courts occasional interventions. Any top ten list is a bit arbitrary.
Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050.
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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. Drought, desertification and species loss have resulted. The number of migratory birds passing through Afghanistan has fallen by 85%.”
Legal Planet
MARCH 31, 2022
Net zero by 2030, 50% cut from 2007 by 2030. Did the companies initiate plans to cut emissions or were they forced to do so by state law? thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) Interim goal of 50% reduction of 2007 GHG emissions by 2030. Southern Company. VHC 17% Gas 51%. Dominion Energy. VHC 29% 42% Gas.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 13, 2021
Circumscribed in a body of law and policy known as the Law of the River, the math is complex and arcane, setting water deliveries across seven states and Mexico. Each about one-third full, they sit today at record lows, products of the Colorado River’s unforgiving math, in which demand exceeds supply.
Energy and Climate Law
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
The Case Supported by the NGO Milieudefensie, four Nigerian farmers claimed that in the period 2004-2007 their fields have been polluted by pipelines owned by Shell.The cases were brought via appeals proceedings ( Hoger Beroep ) in front of a Dutch court in Den Haag. Friday`s two judgements are final and consider the facts under Nigerian law.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Mine Cleanup Law Weakened by Coal’s Decline — Reclamation is a flashpoint for the partisan divide over fossil fuels. It is Syria’s first outbreak of the waterborne pathogen since 2007. Whether home ownership becomes a privilege of the wealthy depends on state policy, the Times reports. Brett Walton, Interim Stream Editor.
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