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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). But in-ocean research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. The 2013 amendment has not yet entered into force.

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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level.

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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

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The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water.

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Los Angeles County Passes Motions to Protect Environmental Justice Communities from Urban Oil Drilling

Legal Planet

since 2013 have been integral to creating the conditions that led to the County’s actions, is also a member of the County coalition. The Board’s motions also track recommendations made by UCLA Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic in two letters sent to Los Angeles County earlier this summer on behalf of clients.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013.

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Third Circuit Restores Rule B Attachment Based On Breach of Contract Claim Under English Law, Implied Indemnity Claim Not Enough

The Energy Law Blog

F]ederal maritime law governs whether a claim sounds in admiralty and that the relevant substantive law governs whether a plaintiff has alleged a valid prima facie claim,” citing Blue Whale Corp. Both the time charter and the voyage charter selected the law of England to apply. Grand China Shipping Dev.

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Judicial Update: The Law Of ‘Constitutional Standing’ Taking Shape in Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

In other words, who has standing to bring challenges to government action under the ERA. 2013), claims under the ERA had very little teeth without a supporting claim of a violation of some other statutory or regulatory provision, and an ERA claim often served as strongly worded bluster without any substance. 2013)) (citing Pa.

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