Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

That is in spite of the discovery in 2018 of “rogue” use of chlorofluorocarbons, probably from factories in China. Even in this day and age, release of the 2018 report and the resulting attention brought to the issue was apparently sufficiently embarrassing to the Chinese government to cause it to crack down on the use of CFCs.

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JULY 13, 2021

First Nations groups in Australia plead the federal government to distribute $40 million promised to them in 2018 for to buy water. First Nations groups in Australia are calling on the federal government to deliver the $40 million promised in 2018 to buy water supplies. state of Georgia. 40 MILLION . Schools in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

In South Africa, garbage and high levels of bacteria are contaminating the country’s rivers, and environmental activists are struggling to hold government officials accountable. However, even the South African government’s own data points to a disaster. The agreement stems from a change in Israeli government.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance.

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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% In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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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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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Now the german government decided to, once again, amend the EEG to accelerate the faltering energy turnaround. This blog entry critically reflects upon the main amendments to the EEG that the government proposes and identifies four crunchpoints. OGEL , 2018 (2).) So what is being proposed and where are the crunchpoints?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

After having phased out coal and successfully decreased pollution between 2005 and 2017, emissions started to rise again in 2018 – when the current government came into power. The current Ontario Government’s record. The government claims it can reduce transportation emissions by shifting to electric vehicle (EV) use.

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MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer. Advisory opinions provide a court or judge’s interpretation of a law, and are delivered in response to a question from an official, agency, or government.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

With the September 30 deadline for passing a fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations package looming and no agreement in sight, Congress settled on a temporary fix: they passed a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government at last year’s levels until December 20.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Government ministries from Albania, Morocco, and Peru also signed on. By championing skills development, data exchanges, systematic approaches, research and development, governance, and financing, the Paris Pact, in its intent, helped set the course for the climb. He compared climate and water action to a mountain climber.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. Governance would expand beyond state borders. A regional grid would need a new governance structure, otherwise there’s no chance that utilities outside of California would join. It’s not a new concept.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year, the California Legislature enacted SB 9 , which required local governments to allow duplexes (and with ADUs, sometimes triplexes and quadraplexes) in single-family zones. Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2018 April 24. Duplex: The NIMBY’s Nightmare. Baltimore Duplexes: Not Manhattan. That is ripe for a lawsuit.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

The federal government launched an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance in 2018 and recently appointed a Sustainable Finance Action Council. Governments can tackle this greenwashing by mandating that sustainable finance follows the scientific pathways that limit warming to 1.5 Shouldn’t mitigating the problem be step one?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Beginning with the start of FY2024 on October 1, funding for the federal government will – absent a continuing resolution (CR) – expire, as will the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, better known as the 2018 Farm Bill. So what, exactly, would a government shutdown mean for agriculture?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” While ExxonMobil left ALEC in 2018 , Chevron includes ALEC on its most recent list of trade association memberships , and the company has even sponsored the organization’s annual meetings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reducing the harm of eviction post-disaster In the days and weeks after a disaster, the priority for all levels of government should be meeting people’s immediate needs and stabilizing communities. Every state hit by disaster has the ability to request assistance from the federal government and enact its own emergency plan.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. The government has also pledged that a third of new cars will be electric or hydrogen by 2030. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions?

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent in 2018. percent in 2018. The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. The rising cost of water and sewer service is a problem across Michigan, but especially for high-poverty communities. percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But large-scale battery storage has actually gotten much safer in recent years, with the failure rate dropping 97% between 2018 and 2023. Governments and developers should work to educate the public about the safety mechanisms incorporated into battery storage systems. First responders have been injured.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 18, 2022

In 2018, CLEE partnered with the California Department of Insurance on a report about the problem, TRIAL BY FIRE Managing Climate Risks Facing Insurers in the Golden State. The US insurance industry has been slower to catch on to the problem.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The energy research firm Wood Mackenzie estimates that the number of blades using PET as their core material instead of balsa will increase from 20% in 2018 to 55% in 2023. Governments can support research into, and companies can experiment with, new substitute materials for balsa wood in wind turbines.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

Assembly Bill 2832 passed in 2018 creating the California Battery Recycling Advisory Group. This group consists of automotive and battery manufacturers, government agency representatives, and public interest groups. In addition to the California work, the federal government is also paying attention.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a recent opinion released by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the court declined to vacate a deficient environmental impact statement (“EIS”) prepared in connection with two offshore lease sales held in 2018, the records of decision announcing the sales, or the leases issued.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s not going to be enough for the federal government to push money out the door and be hands off about it,” Dr. Cleetus states. “We Field and Israel were energized by the swift progress in Maine since 2018, noting, “it is possible to work towards climate resilience quickly and effectively.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There were many dedicated folks from government agencies and private citizens that moved the effort forward as funding became available. . -- The Schuylkill River Acts and Impacts Youth Expedition. The effort to clean up acid mine drainage in the Anthracite Region came into focus in the mid-1990’s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

The governing bodies that regulate California’s energy system are almost as complicated and arcane as the sprawling network of wires, poles, and power plants they oversee. A new regulatory approach In practice, greater representational governance at the CPUC would require a shift in the regulatory landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

State and local governments must at the same time implement policies that reduce heat trapping emissions, thereby helping to slow the pace of climate change, and implement policies– to which we are already committed –that prepare us for the impacts of a changing climate. Source: UCS, Toward Climate Resilience, 2016.

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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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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. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Water samples from Benton Harbor homes since 2018 consistently revealed elevated levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin that damages the brain and nervous system and is particularly dangerous to young children. By the time Benton Harbor tested its water in 2018, there were other echoes of the disaster that unfolded in Flint. Last year, 3.8

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