Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

A 2015 survey by UCS and the international climate disclosure organization CDP found that few companies were willing to disclose their memberships or discuss whether their public stance on climate change aligned with the groups they funded (associations are not required by law to disclose their members or boards of directors).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. It is trying to reach people who might be leery of government intervention. California is not yet to that level of emergency.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

These blog posts summarize our recent article in Ecology Law Quarterly , coauthored with my collaborator Moira O’Neill. The second blog post (summarizing the relevant law) is here. Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here. Implications. Paths forward.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2022

General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. The Ukrainian government says that it intends to seek compensation based on the Gulf War precedent. It was not only the youth of Europe who were mown down by that senseless conflict. It remains true, now as much as ever.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Despite frequent petrochemical and climate disasters, the federal government has not updated its disaster guidance relative to people with disabilities since 2014,” said co-author Hilary Flint, Director of Communications and Community Engagement for the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community.

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

In 2014, CAISO expanded the territory of its real-time market , through which utilities can buy small amounts of electricity to correct real-time fluctuations in customer demand and electricity dispatched by generators. These efforts are called the “ West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.” Kelly Cook is a Berkeley Law J.D.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. 2014) 227 Cal.App.4th City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. September 20, 2022

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

In 2014, California enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which aims to protect groundwater resources by requiring groundwater sustainable agencies (GSAs) to formulate plans to sustainably manage groundwater resources within their basin. Groundwater use is a topic of dire importance in California.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

EU law requires certain large companies to disclose non-financial information on the way they operate and manage social and environmental challenges. The current disclosure regime was introduced in 2014 by Directive 2014/95/EU.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon. The Findings addressed each of the environmental issues studied in the 2014 EIR and compared the effects of the Project to those of the adopted GPU.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As Senior Fellow Amy Turner documented last year , a number of local governments around the country have moved to prohibit natural gas hookups in buildings. However, some state governments have blocked those local measures, preventing municipalities from enacting natural gas bans.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, because most development is approved at the local level in California, any response either requires state intervention into local land-use regulation (always politically controversial) or alternatively getting local governments to address the problem themselves, no small task in a state with hundreds of cities and counties.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). Agricultural methane policies, where they exist, tend to take predominantly three forms: regulation , cap – and – trade programs , and government incentive programs. Incentive and Subsidy Programs.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Western utilities may be more interested in sticking with California and joining EDAM if CAISO has an independent governance structure.

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Department of Justice, will give the first David Sive Memorial Lecture on Environmental Law at Columbia Law School on Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m. His topic will be “The Arc of Environmental Law and the U.S. Senate on December 16, 2014. Department of Justice.”

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

In Minnesota , stricter penalties for water overuse are signed into state law. “We The EPA has identified “principal recipients” of grant funds to include nonprofit organizations, tribes, local governments, and universities. The goal is for these recipients to then create grant programs themselves, within the communities they serve.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Back in 2014, California was the very last Western state to realize that everyone pumping as much groundwater as they could wasn’t a great long-term strategy to meet our collective water needs. This was already a requirement in Texas’ groundwater law, and it seemed like a no-brainer to me. The final verdict? David wins a round!

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It’s frustrating,” he said. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Still, given the potential for even more serious damage in the future, government at all levels is taking action to address the issue. That the federal government is proposing to make this radical change in strategy for addressing the EAB may simply illustrate how challenging the problem is. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The British coal-mining industry, which in the 1980s comprised 175 working pits, had been judged by the then-Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, to be uneconomic. However, the UK government has recently approved a controversial proposal to build the first coal mine in thirty years in Cumbria in northwest England.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It According to the study, deforestation related to industrial mining peaked in Indonesia between 2010 and 2014. One of the main reasons is the massive coal mining permits, including in forest areas.”

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. In India, a government program is bringing running water to more homes in areas of high-poverty. Earlier this month, the federal government announced a new office that will focus on health problems linked to climate change.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Hawke has been named to Board’s Class of 2024, which will help govern the organization in its mission to preserve the historical significance of the SEC. The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has named Securities Enforcement & Litigation partner Daniel M. Hawke to its Board of Trustees.

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MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible. Both the science and law around climate change have progressed.

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MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. Another way to formulate the question is, “What are the obligations of states under international law to protect the rights of present and future generations against the adverse effects of climate change?”.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 16, 2021

The CBCA decision arose from a different disease outbreak than we are experiencing today: the 2014 Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. The CBCA held that the cardinal change doctrine did not apply, because the government’s inaction and the Ebola outbreak did not change the nature of the contract; it only increased the cost of performance.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. Despite current inaction, constitutional law in Colombia now recognizes the Atrato River as a living entity with rights. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thousands of wells in the state went dry in the previous drought , in 2014 and 2015, mostly in the southern San Joaquin Valley. In this time of need Glenn County officials are looking to higher levels of government for assistance. For those whose wells have gone dry, getting water is a costly chore. Photo courtesy of Maralee Childs.

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