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. As former Secretary of State George Shultz said of American politics: It’s Never Over. And a lot will be litigated. Download as PDF.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

and Canada, the two principal laws overseeing Line 5 operations in the Straits, expressly Michigans authority to protect state waters from Line 5s risks. The energy sector and pipeline politics of the 21 st century are much different than they were decades ago.

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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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Circle of Blue

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Negotiations over Article 6 were highly technical and contentious in COP24 (2018) and COP25 (2019) but were then finally agreed at the last moment of COP26. Student at Berkeley Law. She serves as Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, North South University, Bangladesh, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Climate Justice- Bangladesh.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. This is especially useful when dealing with transmission across state lines that can often face political and financial obstacles. This is the step that tripped up the 2018 grid regionalization push. It’s not a new concept.

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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 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd., Administrative complaints.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

In the 19 th century, both freed and escaped slaves ( cimarrones ) settled in Loíza because they could easily remain hidden in the complex mangrove environment, and these geographic conditions had political implications. Before 2017 ended we had trained them and in February 2018 we launched a funded program.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. While admitting he owned one of the contracted companies, he said he stepped down as its chairman before accepting his political appointment. Photo by Kunle Adebajo.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

There is a general lack of political will, certainly. Shutting off access to drinking water and basic sanitation to families is becoming a greater political concern, let alone a humanitarian concern. There’s a fair amount of enthusiasm lately among cities about money to fix some of Michigan’s water problems. The U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2018, the GCF Task Force endorsed Guiding Principles for Collaboration and Partnership Between Subnational Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. A key element of the actions that GCF Task Force states and provinces are taking to reverse these trends is close partnership with Indigenous peoples and local communities.

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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Looking broadly at the weakness, dissembling, and comforting delusion on these matters related to emissions may suggest that possibility of deep structural weaknesses in the whole approach being taken in international climate law. and which we may see again, perhaps even more strongly, at next year’s COP in Dubai.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 18, 2024

Since 2018 especially, something has been hinky in Ontario. We protested outside MPP offices, keeping the faith that the increasing amount of beeping horns, people showing up, and media and political attention would mean a reversal. First, hundreds of clean energy contracts were cancelled with the stroke of a pen. The land was safe.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s the lowest level for the month of August since 2018 and it continues a downward trend. This has been attributed to a combination of increased law enforcement, restoring peatlands, bans on plantations and farming in sensitive areas, and efforts to combat fires, among other policies. percent compared to last August.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Out of patriotism, naivety, a desire for funding, or direct political pressure, a scientist can become part of the state’s propaganda and even complicit in the state’s actions. For a people emerging from fresh memories of wars and famine, nationalism is a natural sentiment. It can be useful and even necessary to establish a shared identity.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. In 2018, the General Court partially upheld the actions, prompting an appeal from the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The ruling clarifies requirements for standing under primary EU law to challenge a Commission regulation.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2024

18 Webinar On Unlocking The Power Of Hydrogen [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project Executive Director Alison Steele Selected For Indo-Pacific Leadership Lab Climate Change And Adaptation Initiative -- Appalachian Region Independent Power Producers Assn.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Loyalsock Creek, Pennsylvania’s River of the Year in 2018, is a beautiful mountain stream that travels through Lycoming County on its way to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018). ” (2021). Egli, Florian.

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JULY 1, 2020

The European Green Deal and the proposed European Climate Law reinforce the EU’s goal to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050, meaning that the EU will emit no more greenhouse gases than it removes from the air (for example through reforestation). References: Ringel, Marc, and Michèle Knodt (2018). West European Politics, doi: [link].

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

She also graduated with minors in Biology and Political Science. Army and plans to apply to law school in the fall. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) in 2018. She is now serving as a paralegal specialist in the U.S. They wrote the first draft of the bill that was sponsored by Sen.

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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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MAY 25, 2020

California’s Proposition 65 tends to take a careful approach while the EPA has tended to tailor its decisions to satisfy pesticide manufacturers and political parties. [18]. Thus, California adopted new rules in August 2016 which became active in August 2018. [28]. However, the new 2018 amendments are a step in the right direction.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

1] North Dakota was the first state to obtain primacy for Class VI wells in April 2018, with Wyoming following in October 2020, and Louisiana now joining as the third state. 6] These states’ liability transfer and environmental justice strategies are shaping the landscape for future CCS projects, presenting legal and political challenges.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

In 2018, Parliament enacted the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , S.C. Specifically, the law required provinces and territories to implement carbon gas pricing systems by January 1, 2019 or adopt one imposed by the federal government. The Federal Carbon Pricing Law Is Constitutional. 186 (“ GGPPA ”). Climate Change Is Real.

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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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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2024

How the court addressed gendered vulnerability In its judgment, the ECtHR provides a detailed overview of the evidence and law on the differentiated impacts of climate change. The applicants produced evidence to show that “overall, women aged above 75 (such as applicants nos. Similarly, General Recommendation No.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A 25-year-old Australian pension beneficiary brought a legal challenge in 2018 against his superannuation managers for failing to adequately disclose and manage climate risk ( McVeigh v. Professor, Faculty of Arts – Political Science Department, University of Alberta. Retail Employees Superannuation Trust ). Laurie Adkin.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Consequently, unresolved negotiations over its content can sometimes lead to the bill’s expiration without a successor, as they did in both 2012 and 2018, leaving many programs and the individuals who rely on them without funding or authority. The recently passed 2018. proposed House and Senate bills.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The obligation ensues from the unwritten standard of care in Dutch law, which prohibits acting in conflict with certain generally accepted norms. Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court presented another example of a court addressing state accountability and the way international commitments are reflected in national laws.

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Physics World

MAY 5, 2021

The book’s scope is primarily political, rather than technical. Zerilli’s background in law is evident throughout, with many legal processes described in excruciating detail. The authors frequently quote philosophers and discuss legal matters, introducing the reader to the ethical considerations of implementing AI systems.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. One 2018 study combined on-site and aircraft measurements to estimate US oil and gas sector emissions about 60 percent higher than in the official emissions inventory.

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