Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2014, the California legislature passed into law the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) , and for the first time, groundwater basins in the state would need to start cutting back on over-drafting our shared groundwater resource. This is definitely the case in the Cuyama Valley.

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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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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. Hughes water supply options for Teravalis, some available now, others that will require a change in state law and regulation, include tapping another aquifer and delivering water by pipeline.

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Law Columbia

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). That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition. But a lot has changed since then.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Photos by Evan George) When California lawmakers enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014, it was an effort to tame the wild , wild west of water. The dispute highlights the limits of California’s landmark groundwater law—especially if you’re not a large corporation.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. But as the clean energy transition accelerates, these broader questions of politics and price making should be front and center. Ras Laffan LNG terminal in Qatar. Photo credit: Matthew Smith, Flickr.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The resulting closures caused great unemployment and hardship in coal-mining areas, together with much social and political violence and unrest in 1984-5. The project which is a long-running saga was first proposed in 2014 and has since been kicked back and forth before finally being approved by the government. Strong pushback.

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PA Environment Daily

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. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D.

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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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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014. Uber has been successful, however, in silencing female passengers who speak up about being assaulted in Uber vehicles.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014. Uber has been successful, however, in silencing female passengers who speak up about being assaulted in Uber vehicles.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. A panel of the U.S.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Senate bill, on the other hand, reauthorized CSP, but would have reduced total enrollment from the current 70 million acres of land enrolled in CSP under the 2014 Farm Bill. An unfortunate result of the lapse in Farm Bill authority upon expiration of the 2014 bill was that 39. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Arctic Law & Policy Institute, explains why. _. Certain states, including Alaska, wrote individualized versions the public trust into their constitutions, laws, and court decisions. The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. S–14776, 2014 WL 4494394 (Alaska Sept.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 6, 2016

Texas, however, has enacted a state law expressly preempting local authority over a number of drilling activities. In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. In 2014, St. Colorado Oil and Gas Association , 2016 CO 29, P.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The lack of consensus building, in addition to a generation of fatalist humans, results in climate based anxiety , fear, and deception, which (in the wrong hands) can be put towards political gain. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The lack of consensus building, in addition to a generation of fatalist humans, results in climate based anxiety , fear, and deception, which (in the wrong hands) can be put towards political gain. Seven Years to Midnight?

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 Not so in the modern day, however.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. There are political consequences. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. This letter does not reflect the views of Vermont Law School or VJEL. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself. I am an Oklahoman.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Part 3 of 4), posted 12/1/21 on SLoG Law Blog (noting agency leaders, such as a city council, “are elected officials who inevitably pay attention to politics even when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity (hearing a CEQA appeal)”.)

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The claim is grounded on the constitutionally recognized right to a healthy environment; fundamental rights such as the right to life, dignity, health, food, and housing; along with several recognized principles of international environmental law and international climate change commitments. In PSB et al. Brazil (on Amazon Fund).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And the company maintains positions on just about every ag and water related board and commission in Kings, giving it considerable political heft. . It is also tasked with reviewing groundwater plans under the state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014. The company is run from its Pasadena offices by James W.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2014

Although this registry is not designed to track the whereabouts of convicted abusers, law enforcement should also benefit from access to a national Do Not Adopt Registry. Animal cruelty is not a political issue. Degrees in Environmental Law (2014 – Vermont Law School) and Animal Law (2015 – Lewis & Clark Law School).

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers. Bay State legislators should be congratulated for enacting no-phosphorus lawn fertilizer laws. in Environmental Law.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, eco-labels illustrate powerful tools of consumer-driven environmental protection and show that green-washing can be stopped through soft law approaches. From 1990 to 2014, the contribution towards climate protection made by recycling paper, cardboard and cartons was upsized by a factor of 7.5, ISO standards. , Gabriela Steier.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

Even more important to BlocPower — which specializes in clean energy retrofits — is Local Law 97. Passed in 2019, the law requires existing buildings over 25,000 square feet to start lowering emissions in 2024 and to reach a reduction of 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050. Robert Clark falls into this latter category.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As China’s Communist Party increases its political grip, it has been nearly impossible for foreign NGOs to operate effectively in the country and Chinese elites now chafe at requirements that they pass regular tutorials in “XI Jinping Thought.” The country’s strengthened environmental laws seem to be producing results.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

. : Not all agency rules have the force of law. In March of 2014, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers issued an “interpretive rule” regarding section 404 of the Clean Water Act, circumventing a notice and comment period. Agricultural Conservation Flexibility Act of 2014.”. Vermont Journal of Environment Law.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. On January 9, 2014, a chemical tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston, West Virginia, leaked into the Elk River. At first glance, though, existing laws would seem applicable to the spill at Freedom Industries.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 17, 2022

In February, Russian forces destroyed a dam that Ukrainians had built to restrict the flow of water in the canal after Russia overtook Crimea in 2014. The newly added incidents reveal the geographic and political dimensions of water-related violence in an era of social turmoil and ecological upheaval.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. Notwithstanding the assured political battles, one way to increase the price of carbon is through an economy wide carbon tax. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. jointly committed. to reducing their carbon emissions. Clean Power Plan.

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

Indeed, this machine provided a vital glimpse of the fundamental laws of the universe, supplying some of the first evidence that particles and their antiparticle counterparts can behave differently. Making strides and breaking laws. Construction began in 1991 but was cancelled in 1993 for financial and political reasons, despite 22.5

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

coastlines is a much more complex environmental, economical, and political discussion. between 2014 and 2015, which complicate how seawater desalination. Stryker is a second-year law student at Vermont Law School pursuing his J.D. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. While simplistic. population growth.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

That caused a television meteorologist at NBC’s Miami affiliate to all but say that Florida is under a state of climate emergency, inflamed by political insanity. Quietly reaping benefits There are occasional nods to reality as DeSantis last month signed into law a measure requiring homeowners to disclose a property’s flood history.

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