Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post highlights three ways in which this pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation could advance the field—through its economic aspects, climate governance, and the pertinent international legal regime. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP. It enables the provisional (i.e.,

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

government turned over more than 600 acres of the former Loring Air Force Base to the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in 2009, the land was so polluted it was categorized as a federal superfund site. Read the full story in the Bangor Daily News. When the U.S. While many of the toxins have been removed, concerning… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines. UCS began pushing for strong planning with new rules as early as 2009.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Among these relevant “governance attributes” is Part 11 compliance, as applicable, including maintaining “access controls and audit trails to demonstrate the provenance of the registry data and to support traceability of the data. 2009) (2009 Guidance). ”[[N:Id.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Denmarks incoming king Crown Prince Frederik attending the Nordic Climate Solutions in 2009. He was one of several authors of the 2009 book focusing on climate challenges, the Polar Cruise Royal, with a foreword by Kofi Annan. Photo credit: Johannes Jansson / norden.org, CC BY 2.5 dk via Wikimedia.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is propped up in part by government subsidies , which help preserve an unsustainable industry that could not compete with renewables if it took into account its true costs to society. According to the International Monetary Fund, globally , fossil fuel subsidies were $5.9 trillion or 6.8%

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Back in 2009, countries set a finance goal of $100 billion. Even worse, oil and gas companies operating in Canada have huge plans to expand the production of fossil fuels – and governments in Canada are letting them do it. This is what is known as climate finance.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Joanne’s tenure, the Authority was awarded the 2009 Best Local Government Program by the National Recycling Coalition. She also assisted with the conversion of the recycling collection vehicles to renewable natural gas. Joanne has served on many boards and associations to improve recycling programs across the Commonwealth.

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In a series of publications, most importantly her 2009 book, Chasing the Wind , Noga Morag-Levine has argued forcefully for distinguishing between continental European-style "police" regulation and common-law-style environmental regulation based on a nuisance conception.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government has the power to give people more and better choices about what we eat, and this year presents an excellent opportunity for positive change. Double Up Food Bucks started in 2009 in Michigan and has since expanded nationally. It is quite clear that, for many, eating sustainably and nutritiously is not an option.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2023

In the 1960s, when the threshold was introduced, the federal government determined that families spent about one-third of their household income on food, and if this was not enough for a specific household to purchase a government-determined meal plan each month, that household would be considered poor.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. They irrigate 570,000 acres, or roughly 100,000 acres more than in 2009, according to state figures. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. We’re still there.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Some of these appear both feasible and necessary to achieve important sustainability and human welfare objectives.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2023

“In addition to greening festivals and fundraisers, PRC offers commercial businesses, institutions and local governments across the state a wide variety of Zero Waste services including technical assistance, audits and analysis,” explains PRC Executive Director Darren Spielman.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. Posted: December 28, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Physics World

JULY 30, 2021

In 1970 he then moved to Kyoto Univeristy before heading to Kyoto Sangyo Univeristy from 2003 to 2009. Physicists were sure that all these symmetries held for elementary particles but in the 1950s, physicists discovered that charge symmetry breaks in the weak interaction, which governs radioactive beta decay.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Fracking company XTO Energies, acquired by ExxonMobil in 2010, helped fund the site’s launch in 2009, along with oil supermajors Chevron, BP, and Shell.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

From 2009 through March 2024, the average retail price of electricity leapt by $3.21 Contributes To Rising Electricity Bills Fracking development may also be contributing to Pennsylvanians’ rising electricity bills. per kilowatt hour in Pennsylvania as the state’s share of natural gas increased by 16%. 28 to Oct.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Had the current provincial government not canceled over 750 renewable energy projects in its first term, we would already be in a better position. Tell the Ontario government to stop expanding dirty gas!

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. Zhao could have stayed in the US or followed the Nationalist government to Taiwan, but his allegiance lay with the land of his birth and its people. Great power rivalry. Erecting barriers. Read more.

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

Transformation is more advanced on the policy side of things, and this is related to the development of collaborative governance approaches that can contribute to enabling transdisciplinarity. These governance approaches are not perfect and discussing how collaborative they are in practice deserves an entire blog post. link] Berkes, F.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2023

According to PRC Executive Director Darren Spielman, “In addition to greening festivals, footraces and fundraisers, PRC offers commercial businesses, institutions and local governments across the state a wide variety of Zero Waste services including technical assistance, audits and analysis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

EN: In 2021, the executive director of the world’s foremost energy authority, the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned : “If governments are serious about the climate crisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal….” EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward?

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. In 2009, the EMC adopted rules to implement the final nutrient management strategy. Later in 2009, the legislature adopted the first of.a Background. UNC Findings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

But even in countries with strong free speech protections like the First Amendment to the US Constitution, governments have a right—indeed an obligation—to curtail speech that is harmful. A recent appeals court ruling affirmed that the warnings are “factual and uncontroversial.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Fayette County : Drilled in 2009, Well abandoned, not plugged [original violation April 5, 2023 ]; failure to have emergency response plan on site, gas leak, failed to get a well transfer permit for sale to Big Dog Energy, LLC in 2023, other violations. Well was drilled in 2009. Well was drilled in 2009.

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

The PKEMRA allowsFEMA to provide assistance to local governments before the state governors request aid. [8]. Under this scheme, the federal government’s relief in the event of a disaster is discretionary. [9]. This leaves the disaster preparedness plans vulnerable to the politics of government. Mitchell Hamline L.J. 35 Touro L.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

The case, which was filed in 2020, relates to the government’s failure to disburse payments from the Climate Fund. Brazil’s Climate Fund was established in 2009 as a financial instrument of the National Climate Policy Plan. However, the majority ruled that the protection of the climate is a constitutional value.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. But like most Cambodians, he is reluctant to criticize his government and its policies. “I

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The notion that nature has legal rights was not new—it had already been enshrined in the 2008 Ecuadorian and 2009 Bolivian Constitutions and has had impacts in other parts of the world (such as New Zealand and Colorado). The only way to protect the communities along the river was to grant rights of nature to the river itself.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

A more conventional ‘risk-benefit’ analysis of geoengineering – such as that by the Royal Society back in 2009 – already attends to climate risks, insofar as they are affected by geoengineering. But in conclusion I want to note some contrasts between the OSTP report and another recent government announcement. So what’s new?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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