Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Should we expect a political showdown and stormy fight on the floor ? Let’s dig into each bill and explore why California needs them to become law and how the bills could improve the water rights system. This bill would only affect those who violate existing law and does not introduce new restrictions on legal water rights holders.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The song paints a narrative of a high school couple and metaphorical high school to comment on disillusionment in contemporary American politics. She’s been extremely successful in affecting political change in the past too. The laws of Taylornomics hold that Taylor Swift can sway both human behavior and corporate interests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Like many other women-led and community-based organizations in Puerto Rico, Taller Salud has taken up the recovery and resilience development in their communities to face the acute climatic, economic, and social crisis that Puerto Rico is facing after the devastation caused by Hurricane María in 2017.

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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. Student at Berkeley Law. By Finlay McWalter at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For many, the future we look to depends on the person in power, and because of the constantly shifting whims of politics, that future is continuously changing. These Amendments can provide a more stable environmental future for citizens because the environment is no longer subjected to the will of shifting politics.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. The admission says a lot about political will. This is not supposed to be a town hall or a popularity contest,” he said.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

About 90% of its farms are considered “family owned,” according to the 2017 US Department of Agriculture farm census. From 2002 to 2017, the most recent USDA farm census, the number of farms in Kings County declined 16.6%. Like its neighbors, Kings is intensively farmed. The data show that’s already happening. No,” he said.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

Jason Gray (far right) is presented with the GCF Task Force Everyday Hero award in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2017. In 2017, Jason was presented with the task force’s “Everyday Hero” award , given to a civil servant who embodies the coalition’s commitment to public service, forest protection, and rural livelihoods.

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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. The attention on climate migration this year was rightly placed.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Judgments and English summaries are found in the Sabin Center’s Climate Change Litigation Database.). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. June 29, 2017). Pruitt , No.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least twice between 2015 and 2017, former environment minister Amina Mohammed visited the wetlands in Yobe to study the situation. While admitting he owned one of the contracted companies, he said he stepped down as its chairman before accepting his political appointment. Though a 2017 senate probe revealed that ?530

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2022

Thousands of people across Canada have called on political leaders to strengthen Canada’s most important environmental law. CEPA is Canada’s main law for protecting environmental health, and CEPA has not been significantly amended since 1999. Millions of people living in Canada will be negatively affected if they do not. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

Subsequent federal transit funding bills generally followed the status quo, in which highways get a much greater share of funds than transit, and barely keeping pace with inflation and transit industry operational, managerial, and political factors that increase costs even higher.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. However, extreme inflation numbers, among other political problems in Argentina, still make it a highly risky place for western companies to make serious investments.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is too early to know what specific policies are driving these reductions, but a return to implementing existing laws, supporting conservation efforts, and ensuring better protection and enforcement around Indigenous territories and protected areas all seem to be having a role in the results.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. The report builds on a previous report published by EDF in 2017.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Repeated attempts to pass anti-protest legislation in Minnesota during the resistance to Enbridge’s Line 3 failed, but the pipeline was completed in 2021 and 60% of US oil and gas operations are now shielded by these laws. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

On January 19, DEP released two more bid packages to plug 43 more abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Clarion County at taxpayer expense under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program. The conventional industry doesn’t pay a dime. Read more here. 21 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the past decade, as the use of Red Notices by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) member states has increased dramatically, so too have calls for INTERPOL to strengthen its gatekeeping function and guard against national authorities' potential misuse of this powerful tool of international law enforcement cooperation.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2024

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Dump As Mideast Tension Stoke Supply Concerns -- Reuters: US Natural Gas Prices Jump 4% On Forecast For Record Heat -- Reuters: Federal Appeals Court Throws Out FERC Approval Of PA/NJ Transcontinental Regional Energy Access Expansion Pipeline Project Saying The Agency Did Not Properly Address Objections Other (..)

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whole Foods did not break the law by banning Black Lives Matter apparel, judge rules CNN PaulaR Tue, 01/02/2024 - 13:37 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Ramishah Maruf New YorkCNN — Whole Foods did not act unlawfully by banning employees from wearing items with Black Lives Matter messaging, a judge ruled Thursday.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the first few months, he will have to implement a new law on climate change, reform the law governing water use and tackle a mega-drought so severe that it has even cast doubt on the country’s commitment to close its coal-fired power plants.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil , the Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) calls upon the Brazilian Federal Government to take appropriate measures to comply with the federal law that instituted the National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC ) and thus enforce compliance with the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm. Background.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 2, 2023

She was born in Napa, California, to a lawyer mother and a judge father, who were thrilled when she followed their footsteps into the law. There, Martha embraced friluftsliv, the country's "right-to-roam" laws and philosophy that allow individuals to explore uncultivated and unfettered land.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

These laws have asserted rights for nature, the right of the community to local self-government, and the right to be free from the dumping of frack waste to protect those rights.” We passed a law that protected Grant Township from this injection well, and have been taken to court repeatedly for doing so.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The discussion resonated with concerns about academic liberties, especially in light of events like the expulsion of “a Hungarian university,” highlighting the paramount importance of upholding the rule of law. Science thrives when it transcends political influences and financial barriers.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” Not just for lawyers, this Tuesday, December 14 at noon. It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. Register today for the live virtual program. yes, this blog will continue).

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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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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. Gaard, Feminism and Env’t Justice , HANDBOOK OF ENV’T JUSTICE (2017). Hill, et al., Anastario, et.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

By David Jennings, 1L Student, Vermont Law School. wolf hunting in Wyoming resumed in October 2017. The decision to delist the Northern Rocky Mountain wolves presents an important question: was USFWS motivated by sound management strategy or simply anti-wildlife politics? killed earlier in 2017. litigation.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Long recognized in both American and English common law, the defense rests on the claim that an otherwise illegal act is legally excusable as necessary to avoid a greater harm. Upcoming cases will provide U.S. The Valve Turners blocked 15% of U.S. Can it work?

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