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Mine Cleanup Law Weakened By Coal’s Decline

Circle of Blue

Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. So in August of 1977, when the nation’s coal mine cleanup law went into effect, it reflected the market’s optimism. To enforce cleanup, the law allowed states to revoke mining permits, a prized commodity. . A Political Quagmire. Photo © U.S.

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Are carbon taxes a thing of the past?

Legal Planet

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. I think these political constraints are a key reason economists focused so long – too long – on carbon pricing.

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The Winding Path of Australian Climate Policy

Legal Planet

As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. Little wonder that scholars in 2018 described Australian climate policy has a “festival of misadventure. This March, Australia adopted a follow-up law to implement these targets. As in the U.S.,

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How Florida Legislation Will Limit the Student Vote

Union of Concerned Scientists

These tactics include regulations on actions directly connected to voting and attempts to limit freedom of speech and academic life on public campuses, both of which can disengage students from the political process. Yet among these positive benefits for students resides a threat to student civic engagement.

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What do U.S. states do at a COP, anyway?

Legal Planet

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. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers.

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What Makes the College-Educated More Likely to Vote?

Union of Concerned Scientists

For a healthy democracy made up of educated and active voters, it would help to better understand the connection between educational attainment and political engagement, and ways to overcome this contradiction. Another shared attribute was the occurrence of more political action on campus.

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Climate Change Accountability: How International Courts Can Drive Climate Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Their omnipresent influence on national politics and international negotiations has trapped consumers in a fossil fuel-dependent system and threatens to delay climate action even further, with the most severe consequences for those already in the most vulnerable situations. What role does science play in climate advisory opinions?