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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2018, a group of young plaintiffs filed a special constitutional claim called tutela alleging that their fundamental rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, and water were threatened by climate change and the government’s failure to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. Colombia : Future Generations v.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

France’s Residential prices for the first half of 2018 were $.1746 France’s Industrial prices for the first half of 2018 were $.1174 Guardian, September 15, 2017, [link] In 2018, according to the US Energy Information Agency, 134 million residential electricity accounts used about 11,000 kilowatt-hours per year, or 1.25