HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

2 While many of the current climate and disaster strategies and plans are clear on the need for disaster risk governance and institutional frameworks, there is still emphasis on top-down approaches. Communities therefore remain passive recipients of disaster management activities as frameworks put much of the responsibility on governments.

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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% The cooperation was extended in December 2016. U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

These activities involved collaboration with stakeholders, legislators, and agencies throughout state government. She also led the development and implementation of SGC’s Racial Equity Action Plan. In 2020, she won the Science in Public Service Award from the California Council on Science and Technology.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.” Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. If cannabis growers necessarily operated outside the law, then they had little incentive to comply with environmental regulatory standards. But other factors may be more within the state’s control.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2016, the Human Rights Council declared that damage to cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of any people, constitutes damage to the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

During the 2015-2016 El Nio cycle, it reported 200 cases of heat-related illnesses, including 2 fatalities. While no provision prohibits litigation related to the Act, it does create obstacles to using litigation as a means of government accountability. Malaysia regularly experiences high temperatures.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2016, the Los Angeles Regional Open Space and Affordable Housing Collaborative (LA ROSAH) has been working to advance parks and affordable housing projects and educate stakeholders and decision makers about the benefits of joint development. Wilmington Townhomes development with tot lot. Photo by Abode Communities.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . pounds per acre on average in 2016 from 16.2 pounds in 2006.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2023

For students, who are often first time voters, understanding the rules regarding registration is already cumbersome; in 2016, 20 percent of youth with college experience reported that problems with voter registration were the reason that they did not vote. In Texas in 2022, a new law resulted in a 12.4%

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MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. In 2016, the EPA updated the air value for ethylene oxide (called an “inhalation unit risk factor”) using more recent and robust science. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and theClimate Science Legal Defense Fund.

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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. In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S.

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MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Similarly, at a university in Ohio, an interventional study on the effects of a campus presidential debate watch event found a positive effect of event attendance on increasing student voter turnout in the 2016 election. Other on-campus factors beyond one-time events also contribute to increased student voter turnout.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 Though increasingly climate migrants to other countries are described as “ climate refugees ”, displacement by disasters and climate change is yet to be included in the definition of a refugee as established under international law. Their rights are only covered under human rights law.

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JULY 28, 2022

Climate adaptation is moving into the limelight, with major funding on adaptation from Congress and state governments. There’s people living in Livingston Parish, for example, flooded in 2016, whose lives — everything in their life was destroyed,” he said. Notably, this funding is coming with bipartisan support.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2016 Taylor was awarded the Michigan Environmental Council’s Petoskey Prize, the state’s top honor for grassroots activists, for her meticulous research on CAFOs, and for managing ECCSCM’s water quality monitoring program, which has 56 sampling sites across the county. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying.

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MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Pritzker , Nos.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. The federal government has set targets and policies for most sectors in the economy….except

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JULY 5, 2023

So, what if all parties – government, private sector, environmental groups, the public more broadly -actually made difficult choices and compromises, sometimes even involving important principles, in the face of dire consequences.

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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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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. Agricultural Methane Regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

Many have questions about the safety of these pipelines and how they will be regulated by the federal and state government. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report. The move to carbon sequestration and hydrogen technology will require the development of new or repurposed pipelines to carry carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Committee held the last general hearing August 17, 2021 on “environmental and economic benefits of pipelines” and failed to even acknowledge the over $55 million in penalties imposed by DEP and the Public Utility Commission for violating environmental, health and safety laws and regulations between 2016 and 2021. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Not so in the United States. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

This is the idea that courts must apply Constitutional Law in addressing cases that involve environmental violations especially when they threaten human life or health in some way or another. The Colombian youth plaintiffs argued before the Constitutional Court that record rapid deforestation in the Amazon occurred between 2015 and 2016.

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Washington Nature

JULY 3, 2023

Over the past few years, Washington state has enacted a number of climate-focused laws to address both current and anticipated statewide needs and opportunities when it comes to climate change. Our journey began with 2016’s Initiative 732 and expanded with 2018’s Initiative 1631. Back in the other Washington (D.C.),

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JULY 25, 2016

In 2015, the Wyoming Legislature passed two new laws creating criminal and civil causes of action for trespassing to collect resource data. in May, 2015 after Wyoming passed two controversial new trespass laws. data trespass laws. data trespass laws. The Data Trespass Laws Violate the First Amendment. Summary. :

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

It may be a kind of blackmail, but it’s effective — and it’s the law. But that regulation has to be rubber stamped by Mr. Metcalfe’s committee, which has objected, arguing that a 2016 state law requires that conventional and shale resources be regulated separately. And for no reason. Photo: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.)

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