Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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National Law Center

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Since 2018, 15 states have passed laws that limit the use of terms such as “burger,” “chick’n,” and “sausage”. The post Truth in Labeling Laws(uits) – Update on Arkansas appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. Plant-based food.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018.

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Legal Planet

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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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Legal Planet

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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

In 2018, frustration was so great with the lack of compliance with Energy Transfer/Sunoco on the Mariner East Pipeline Project that DEP imposed a total permit block on the company and Republican Sen. Million In Penalties Against Shale Gas Drilling, Pipeline Companies In 2023 For Violations Dating Back To 2018 [May 2024] -- DEP Issues $1.1

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Legal Planet

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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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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Inhabitant

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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Legal Planet

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

For example, Broward County, Florida’s 2018 paper ballots didn’t clearly differentiate between voting instructions and contests when instructions and a senatorial contest were listed in a single column, resulting in a nine percent difference in votes for that race in Broward compared to the rest of the state’s counties.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This way of amending laws is a standard procedure in the German legal system. OGEL , 2018 (2).) In the final version now the law is simply making reference to the `wind-energy at sea - Act, that shall be presented tomorrow. F. , & Nieuwenhout, C.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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CEQA Developments

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

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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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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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

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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Legal Planet

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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Law Columbia

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. Russian export laws and bilateral agreements with China explicitly prohibit the use of supplied materials for military purposes. These provisions against military use are also present in a 2018 contract for Russia to provide fuel for the CFR-600 reactors.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

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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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2018, as I described in a previous post , Utah funded a University of Utah project to devise a climate plan for the state. In North Carolina, the bitterly partisan Republican legislature joined the Democratic governor in passing a law setting targets of 70% emissions reduction by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Vermont Law

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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Legal Planet

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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Legal Planet

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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Legal Planet

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2023

Many recently passed laws are now in effect that aim to limit access to voting and the knowledge needed to be an informed voter. Another Florida law, SB7066 , aims to impose many voting restrictions, including one that disproportionately targets campus voting sites. They are bound to have big ramifications for student voting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A little history: the food and farm bill that was signed into law in 2018 was originally scheduled to expire in 2023. If not, we’ll begin 2025 without a food and farm bill—but also with a new Congress and another chance to help shape the type of legislation we hope to see the next president sign into law.

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Circle of Blue

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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