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MAY 16, 2023

Little wonder that scholars in 2018 described Australian climate policy has a “festival of misadventure. In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. This March, Australia adopted a follow-up law to implement these targets.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

California Governor Jerry Brown in Bonn for the 2018 climate summit. Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S. states or other subnational goverments.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. filed in 2024 and 2018, respectively. In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

This critical legislation was originally expected to be signed into law by the fall of 2023, but a chaotic schedule—and an often dysfunctional Congress—got in the way. One of these was for Congress to codify, or permanently authorize in law, the national network of climate hubs, and to provide $50 million in annual funding for them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This guidance has been solicited from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Interamerican Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), and International Court of Justice (ICJ). 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B.

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Environment, Law, and History

APRIL 19, 2022

Details are on the conference website. Elihu Vedder, Good Legislation mural, Library of Congress Jefferson Building (1896).

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APRIL 24, 2023

As we detailed in a pair of 2018 reports , the SWRCB has implemented curtailments only rarely, in certain watersheds, during certain major statewide droughts, using different approaches each time. The State has rarely implemented curtailments. Our new report finds improvements during the recent drought.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A month from now, the Supreme Court will hear a case about an animal cruelty law. It’s not an environmental law case, but the ruling could impact the authority of states to address climate change. Ross involves Prop 12, adopted by California voters in 2018. National Pork Producers v. Or is getting that label “game over.”.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Which is why Californians overwhelmingly passed animal welfare initiative Proposition 12 in 2018. While eating meat is the norm in the U.S., many people wish farm animals a happier life pre-burger.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

CEJA also expanded incentives for wind and solar power; however, the law did not include significant provisions for energy storage deployment. For example: Our 2018 report Soot to Solar included a case study looking at retiring the Waukegan coal plant in Illinois. 2025 is also a pivotal year for CEJA implementation in Illinois.

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MAY 30, 2023

Here, two events collectively rendered SBN’s challenges to the 2018 SEIR’s analysis of impacts from student enrollment increases moot. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. County of Placer (2020) 54 Cal.App.5th 5th 714, 722; Golden Gate Land Holdings LLC v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2023

Just think how far we have come in the last five years: five years ago was January 2018. The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office) is one really significant resource—something we didn’t have back in 2018! The good news is that we have more resources to move quickly and intentionally than we have ever had before.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Neuman said it is undisputed that in 2013 the Mariner East pipeline was an interstate pipeline that provided no service in Pennsylvania and was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Authority as common carriers under federal law with no eminent domain authority. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

A 2015 survey by UCS and the international climate disclosure organization CDP found that few companies were willing to disclose their memberships or discuss whether their public stance on climate change aligned with the groups they funded (associations are not required by law to disclose their members or boards of directors).

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Among the targets of the critics is the work of William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018 for advancing economic analysis of climate change, and for his steadfast advocacy of a carbon tax. If you can’t get the politics right, you can’t enact a law, or the law won’t stick. Politics is central in policy.

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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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National Law Center

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In 2018, voters in California passed Proposition 12 (Prop 12). Prop 12 was a ballot initiative that enacted a law requiring. appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The post What is Going on With Prop 12?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

By October 1, Congress will need to fund the government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and determine how to extend ( again ) the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). Since the CAA was signed into law in March 2024, Congress has slowly inched forward its FY2025 appropriations bills , including for USDA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. Starting with stakeholders.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy in the Green Mountain State Written by Kathryn Keener and Diana Csank Cannabis laws are loosening, and recent legislative measures in some U.S. For example, in Vermont, beginning in 2018 individuals 21 years of age and older could legally possess an ounce or less of cannabis or two mature plants.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Now the Terner Center has a report on discussions with developers revealing that we still have quite a long way to go to make the law work as intended. Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2018 April 24. Housing advocates rejoiced, and NIMBYs screamed that it was the end of the world. And a lot will be litigated. That is ripe for a lawsuit.

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JUNE 16, 2022

In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. Last year, South Korea promised to halt financing for coal projects in other countries immediately. Briefly, here is what South Korea is doing in terms of implementation.

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APRIL 13, 2023

“Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. This “supranational status” means that these treaties are above the “regular” laws in the legal hierarchy. Accordingly, any Brazilian law or decree contradicting the Paris Agreement may be invalidated.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Energy Transfer had its brand new Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline explode in Beaver County in 2018 and paid a penalty of $30.8 The Public Utility Commission imposed its own penalties for violations under its laws. million to DEP.

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JULY 14, 2022

The right to use water in the western states is subject to arcane laws, court decrees, and precedents, some of which date to the era of colonial settlement. Entsminger of the Southern Nevada Water Authority called the proposed cuts “a degree of demand management previously considered unattainable.”. Their plan is due next month.

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JULY 3, 2024

Shapiro signed into law House Bill 797 (B.Miller-R-Lancaster) requiring the state Department of Transportation to plant native vegetation along state highways as Act 37. This legislation was first introduced in 2018 by former Rep. On July 1, Gov. Click Here for a House Summary and Fiscal Note on the legislation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

Every five years or so, Congress reauthorizes a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar law that has a major impact not only on farmers and ranchers—who make up less than 2 percent of the US population—but also on the environment, public health, and the economy. How is it playing out in Congress now?

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. Because if water law is anything, it’s complex. It’s not only land acquisitions.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The audit is related to a decision PennVEST made in 2018 to provide two low-interest loans totaling nearly $51 million for a New Hampshire-based Lyme Timber to purchase more than 60,000 acres of private forest land in Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I attended the climate conference as part of the UCLA Law delegation. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. candidate (‘24) at UCLA Law. Indeed, it was a first. Meleana Chun-Moy is a J.D. Download as PDF

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This condition was originally discovered by DEP on October 4, 2018 and the operator has been trying to correct the problem since then. SPLP estimates around five days for the cleanup.” “DEP DEP inspectors will check the site daily during the cleanup and someone from DEP was out there this morning to check the cleanup,” said Shader.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2018, the Fourth National Climate Assessment report of the US Global Change Research Program warned that climate change was disrupting agricultural productivity, causing severe food insecurity and loss of farming jobs. . Their rights are only covered under human rights law.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2018, California voters passed “Prop 12,” a ballot proposal regulating space requirements for farm animals. An Update appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The proposal had two main. The post What’s Cooking with Prop 12?:

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In our 2018 survey , for instance, a number of scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service expressed alarm at how science was sidelined or politicized for issues like endangered or threatened species protection. These concerns are still alive today.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2024

Vincent Nolette joins our team at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law as the Equitable Cities Climate Law Fellow. His work will support the Center’s Cities Climate Law Initiative and include research on city-level law and policy at the intersection of climate and racial wealth equity. Vincent received his J.D.

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