Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CNRL is a member of the Pathways Alliance – a tar sands lobby group that is trying to rebrand this polluting industry as a clean one while pushing back against government climate action behind closed doors. In 2017 he shared his yacht with the interim leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose, for her vacation around the Caribbean.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The current EEG stems from 2017 and by that time some fundamental changes were made to the system, as discussed on this blog. Now the german government decided to, once again, amend the EEG to accelerate the faltering energy turnaround. The new EEG amendments (so called EEG Novelle 2021 ) shall come into force on 1 January 2021.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – The federal government announced today that they will delay action on requiring disclosure of toxic ingredients on labels of consumer products.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

In 2017, over 95,000 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders submitted claims to FEMA for approximately $8.7 Disclosures can be an effective way to inform buyers about risks and to influence purchasing behavior, which is why they are one of many policy tools that governments should use to address climate-related risks (e.g.

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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% U-235) for China’s CEFR. energy and weapons) capabilities.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. In New England, for example, the percentage of people of color that live within 6 miles of a power plant is as much as 23.5

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. State regulations are also filled with gaps that allow unsafe practices for radioactive oil and gas waste.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 2, 2023

Following the wide coverage of a suspected Chinese spy balloon in US airspace earlier in February, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and others have proposed legislation that would seek to limit foreign ownership of US farmland, targeting China, Russia, and other “adversaries” of the US government. million acres of cropland and 223.8 The remaining 3.1

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

We first created this graphic in 2017. In the past few months, while monitoring of the tailings has been halted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal government, Alberta government, and industry groups have been meeting to talk about clean-up solutions. What are tailings ponds? . times the size of Washington D.C!

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It wants government handouts to pay for experimental projects to burn plastic or turn it into fuel. Stop environmental regulation of plastics. Federal government research forecasted an increase in polyethylene production of nearly 15 per cent (to 4.25 million tonnes) between 2017 and 2021.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced new regulations enhancing pipeline safety and governing hazardous liquids pipelines owned by public utilities in Pennsylvania are expected to be published as final this month and take effect in November.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On November 18, the Department of Environmental Protection formally notified the Independent Regulatory Review Commission it was withdrawing the final regulation changing the water quality standard for manganese, ending the rulemaking process. Read More here.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nearly two years after filing an outrageous lawsuit against the federal government, Big Plastic is getting its day in court. The industry is trying to stop much-needed federal regulation of plastics, and we’ll be there to greet them. NOVA Chemicals NOVA is the biggest producer of plastic in Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As you mentioned, it can establish more protective vehicle emissions regulations than the federal government, and it now requires manufacturers and dealers to sell an increasing number of zero emission vehicles, culminating in 100 percent of sales by 2035. And next year, there will be a tax credit available for purchasing a used EV.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

On September 15, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 4 to 1 to disapprove the final Environmental Quality Board regulation setting a water quality standard for manganese DEP said would protect public health and aquatic life. Read more here. DEP will not make a decision until the IRRC sends them a formal disapproval letter.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Cenovus CEO Mr. McKenzie falsely claimed that emissions from the oil and gas industry peaked in 2017 when in reality they have continued to rise. Governments need to keep holding Big Oil accountable for its pollution and for the misinformation about climate change that companies have peddled for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

An income-based billing system was eventually embraced in a different city: Philadelphia, which debuted its Tiered Assistance Program in 2017, on the order of the City Council. Any assistance program will have to clear legal hurdles like the Headlee amendment, which limits the ability of local governments to raise taxes. Brett Walton.

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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. . If the operator fails to perform adequate cleanup, state regulators confiscate the bond and use it to hire contractors to finish the job. The threat of revoking permits no longer holds the force it once did. . In the eastern U.S.,

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

This is outrageous, especially given that Ontario successfully phased out coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2017 and brought down greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 93 per cent. The Ontario government may not care about climate change but the Federal government says it does. What a boondoggle!

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In affirming the trial court’s judgment of dismissal after demurrer, the Court of Appeal noted that CEQA applies only to discretionary, not ministerial, decisions, and that “[t]he test is whether the law governing the agency’s decision to approve the project gives it authority to require changes that would lessen the project’s environmental effects.

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Law Columbia

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

JANUARY 24, 2023

courts have also recently criticized the approach that North American regulators took in determining whether glyphosate is a human carcinogen and in October 2022 the U.S. If we are going to achieve significant pesticide use reduction by 2030 globally and domestically, we need health and environmental leadership from this government.

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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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Environmental and Urban Economics

AUGUST 11, 2021

Here is my 2017 co -authored Harvard Business Review piece. Imagine a free market economy where there is no government regulation of insurance markets and those who seek insurance can contract with for profit insurers. Here is my recent RMS interview. The for profit insurers will do their homework.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. 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.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

HotSpots H2O: ‘Global Indigenous Agenda’ Calls for Water, Land, and Resource Governance at 2021 IUCN World Conference — Indigenous activists and organizations from around the world met virtually this week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Zoom-based World Conservation Congress. ON THE RADAR.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

He also served as the manager of the program’s market monitoring section and as an attorney supporting the development and implementation of climate and air quality regulations at CARB. Jason Gray (far right) is presented with the GCF Task Force Everyday Hero award in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2017.

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