Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This blog post is adapted from testimony delivered at the New York City Department of Buildings hearing on proposed rule §103-14 , Procedures for Reporting on and Complying with Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Certain Buildings in connection with the City’s building performance standard, Local Law 97. Additionality.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed. This activity cannot have any significant global climate effect.

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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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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

MAY 18, 2022

Food prices are hitting all-time highs, pushing hundreds of millions of people deeper into poverty and food insecurity and threatening political stability in regions around the world. Price Shocks, Political Stability, and Food Protectionism. For starters, food price shocks are a political nightmare for weak governments.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated? Let’s hope it was not political on the part of that institution, but just a bad mistake. It is a scandal.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

After an unsuccessful COP in Madrid (2019), as a Bangladeshi citizen (a country often referred to as “ground zero” for its climate vulnerability) I had to wait another two years to renegotiate issues that were blocked and left unresolved at COP25. Student at Berkeley Law. Sharaban Tahura Zaman is a J.S.D Download as PDF.

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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 In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“It really does come down to the fact that poor people, that have the least ability to pay, are the ones who are forced to come up with the dollars to upgrade their infrastructure, but the problem is coming from external forces,” says Nick Schroeck, the former director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. And political power with it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019. Russian export laws and bilateral agreements with China explicitly prohibit the use of supplied materials for military purposes. U-235) for China’s CEFR. The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

In contrast, V-SCI is the passion project of an all volunteer group of graduate students, formed in 2019. Scientific expertise without local, political, or legal knowledge is not enough to take on powerful organizations. EQM Corporation , one corporation in the conglomerate that finances Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC, is a $3.2

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Climate Change Blawg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

As reported in CNN, a report from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science has considered litigation in respect of climate change from 1990 to May 2019. While the US is still the most popular venue for climate change lawsuits, […].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2022

In fact, the governor of South Dakota began a legal and political fight to prevent the Tribes from their use of reservation border checkpoints instead of cooperating for the sake of the lives of South Dakotans, which includes urban Indians, rural, and reservation residents.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 26, 2022

While Holland & Knight’s analysis of 2019-2021 CEQA lawsuit data is ongoing, the article’s “interim report”, which can be read here , states there is no expectation of change in the magnitude of anti-housing CEQA actions, which most frequently allege violations relating to analysis of climate change related impacts, i.e., GHGs and VMT.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2024

On October 10, The Derrick reported that on October 8, a draft emergency order was filed with Public Utility Commission Administrative Law Judge Mark A. Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

In terms of international law, you’re not going to have anyone there on your side. In terms of political will to do something risk tolerant and using a local actor, we also are not going to have anyone there.” — Benham Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington. .

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617. That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

And political malpractice is a new category. How he did it: From 2019 through 2021 in managing different oil and gas mineral rights investment funds he allegedly inflated the value of the rights to be sold to investment funds and used their money to obtain a loan of $6.5 Punishment: Pending.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Big Tobacco’s Big Profits #ActOnTobacco Action on Smoking and Health | April 14, 2019 Today marks the start of a campaign by ASH and our partners, highlighting how Big Tobacco’s big profits continue to be built on a lethal trade and shady dealings.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. The admission says a lot about political will. This is not supposed to be a town hall or a popularity contest,” he said.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

The host of this year’s Annual Meeting, Governor Wilson Lima of Amazonas, Brazil – a state in the heart of the Amazon Basin which in and of itself is nearly three times larger than France – has Chaired the GCF Task Force since its last meeting in Caquetá, Colombia, in 2019. See here for more information. Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Just last week, Governor Newsom signed an amended version of this package into law, with the CEQA bills passing through largely untouched. As such, cases subject to 270-day judicial streamlining are often not resolved within the allotted time period, even though all CEQA cases already receive calendar preference under existing law.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Germany's taxi drivers protest Uber deregulation plans DW | April 10, 2019 An industry body has called the demonstrations "the largest taxi protest" in Germany's modern history. Taxi drivers are rallying against plans to open Germany to ride-hailing services like Uber. They blame Prop 22.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Germany's taxi drivers protest Uber deregulation plans DW | April 10, 2019 An industry body has called the demonstrations "the largest taxi protest" in Germany's modern history. Taxi drivers are rallying against plans to open Germany to ride-hailing services like Uber. They blame Prop 22.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The hunger crisis worsened along with the country’s political deterioration, which culminated in the Taliban takeover in August. Newark began replacing the pipes in 2019, following the discovery of high lead levels in tap water in schools and homes. City leaders had expected the project to take up to 10 years.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

of Agriculture Unveils 2024 PA Farm Show Butter Sculpture -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Residents Urged To Check Homes For Radon In January -- January 6 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available -- Executive Board: Reorganization Of Dept.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Civil law cases. In both cases, the so-called greening of human rights is observed, where the citizens attempt to incorporate the interests to not have their health damaged by GHG emissions into personal rights that are commonly used as a legal basis for an injunction in civil law cases. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v.

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Environmental Europe

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). Knodt, Michèle (2019). West European Politics, doi: [link]. Schoenefeld, J.

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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. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. Zerbib, Olivier David.

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MGKF Law

APRIL 29, 2021

Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling that state common law claims against oil companies for costs resulting from climate change were either preempted by the Clean Air Act, or, in the case of foreign emissions, represented a non-justiciable political question.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

The creation of NYCI follows the 2019 passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), under which New York State’s electricity sector must reach zero emissions by 2040. NYCI’s immediate linkage with WCI could also be seen as politically desirable. Unfortunately, no reforms of the cap have been made.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” Not just for lawyers, this Tuesday, December 14 at noon. It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. Register today for the live virtual program. yes, this blog will continue).

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