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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Legal Planet

But what makes the case important is the courts use of hard look judicial review, which environmentalists have often used to attack bad regulations. It helped create the framework for regulating pesticides and upheld the use of a precautionary approach rather than requiring EPA to have definitive evidence. Corey (2019).

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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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The First French Climate Litigation Ruling - Commune de Grande Synthe

Energy and Climate Law

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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California and Key Stakeholders Join Warehouse Regulation Lawsuit

Clean Energy Law

As described in Latham’s previous reporting on the rulemaking [iii] and adoption [iv] of Rule 2305, the regulation applies to warehouses in the South Coast Air Basin [v] of 100,000 square feet or more and aims to reduce regional nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and local diesel particulate matter emissions. ii] Complaint at ¶ 13.

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UK government sets out plan to ‘unleash’ nation’s space sector

Physics World

The UK government has released a long-term vision for the country’s burgeoning space sector. The National Space Strategy includes several measures that it says will “unleash” the industry’s potential and brings together – for the first time – the UK government’s civil and defence space activities. Cash will be the deal breaker.

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Local Government Associations File Brief to the Supreme Court in Support of EPA’s Clean Air Act Authority

Law Columbia

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA , a case that is currently before the United States Supreme Court. In January 2021, the D.C.

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Want Clean Energy? Then You Also Want Battery Recycling.

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US government is also committed to bolstering domestic recycling. Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. Governments and industry can leverage these five tactics to move energy storage batteries towards a more circular end-of-life stewardship.

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