PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. More Accountable Is A Model For Others -- Post-Gazette Editorial: A Bureaucratic Reform Could Transform PA Government -- Spotlight PA: Tracking Gov. Shapiro -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Gov. Shapiro’s Plan To Make Govt. Monday] -- U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

When our family participated in the Science March at the Minnesota Capitol in 2017, one of our signs said, “What do we want – Science Based Policy! This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned. When do we want it? After Public Comment!”

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The issue boils down to the fact that the government is not collecting enough money to pay for cleanup. . A Political Quagmire. In Pizarchik’s experience working for the federal mining office, coal-friendly political pressure is a headwind facing state actors trying to strengthen the programs. Photo © Prairie Rivers Network.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. SEC Armadillo, Glasgow. By Finlay McWalter at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

SB 9 provides that in most circumstances local governments cannot block such “infill development” projects. SB 9 is a legislative reaction to California local governments’ longstanding, stubborn resistance to new infill housing development projects.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Postdoctoral researcher at GCELS and City Council member for GroenLinks On 17 March 2021 the people of the Netherlands will elect a new House of Representatives ( Tweede Kamer) , which also kickstarts the formation process for a new government ( regering). This blog consists of three parts.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. How this happened is a study in what the Whitmer administration and EGLE officials assert is a political compromise.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Today, the Senate Energy, Environment and Natural Resources ( ENEV ) Committee completes its review of Bill S-5, a long-awaited government bill to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. That’s something we at the GCF Task Force are very focused on with respect to engagement between subnational governments and Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Gray: Yes, for sure. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The invite-only meeting in Manaus this month – co-led by the state of Amazonas – will gather member-state governors and leaders from the private sector, civil society, Indigenous peoples and local communities, national governments, and international organizations to discuss practical steps for putting the action plan into operation.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

In 2023, in the middle of the most devastating fire season in Alberta on record, there was near radio silence on the subject of climate change, and what our political leaders were, or were not doing, to address the calamity. After the 2017 Kenow Fire. At least it hasn’t been so far. But talk we must.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

But political scientist Scott Strauss found that only five to ten percent of Rwandans were exposed to radio broadcasts and there was no correlation between the initial violence and broadcast coverage. This is because, as Strossen notes, ‘not a single study showed that exposure to violent video games caused minors to act aggressively.’

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

This is a good opportunity for the government of Ontario to select a more appropriate person to lead the agency, ideally one that supports the much needed transition away from fossil fuels. It’s only the lack of political will and leadership holding us back. All of the alternatives are available now and are cheaper than fossil gas.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek From January 16-20, 2023, leaders in politics, business, civil society, media, and academia gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting to discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues. Others have yet to be designed and implemented by governments.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

And if you want to challenge the power that Brad Corson has you can help us hold Imperial Oil accountable for its recent toxic tailings disaster by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government and government of Alberta. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds Going To Lycoming County Water, Sewer Projects -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing? 21 -- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Republicans Take Away Rep.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

and Cuban governments could help to drive renewable energy development in the island nation, in a manner that benefits the Cuban people as well as the interests of people throughout the region. The report builds on a previous report published by EDF in 2017. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 24, 2021

His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development. During this research in 2017, Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda and damaged or destroyed almost every building on the island. Our main research expertise is the political economy of environment and development, not disasters, per se.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Litigation by the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), a conservative political party, has been brought against the Lekwa Local Municipality within which Standerton falls, seeking compensation on behalf of the Lotter and Habile families, but so far, nothing has come of it. . Her friends don’t visit anymore.”.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. Then things move on.

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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. And, in 2017 environmental and other groups sued the state of Colorado and asked the court to grant the Colorado river legal personhood with all associated rights.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Reasons For IRRC Disapproval The reasons for the IRRC disapproval are no surprise-- -- DEP did not comply with the intent of Act 40 of 2017 to promulgate a final regulation moving the point of compliance from the point of discharge to the point of water withdrawal and use. Read more here. Click Here for a copy of the IRRC Order.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

on the ESA in 2017 and more than 235 since the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives in 2011. This bill injects politics into the ESA’s science-based process for delisting species and shuts down the possibility of enforcement and judicial review. government. Tennessee Valley Authority v. second bill.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. I/CONS/GA/1956 (2017). ]]. 16, 2012).]]

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