Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. The resulting economic growth also helps create a stronger political base for aggressive expansion of clean energy. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Law § 94-c(2)(h). Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. b)(1) (emphasis added); and. emphasis added). 94-c(4)(g).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

These blog posts summarize our recent article in Ecology Law Quarterly , coauthored with my collaborator Moira O’Neill. The second blog post (summarizing the relevant law) is here. Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here. Implications.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This needs some thought, as both the laws of physics and the principles of supply and demand will apply, even if legislatures and regulators have not yet spoken about allocating costs and resources related to data center energy demands. Dominion Energy can’t address the laws of physics, or even the laws of supply and demand, by themselves.

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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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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just look at how protest songs helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement , anti-war demonstrations in the Sixties , anti-police brutality activism in the early 2000’s , and the Black Lives Matter marches of 2020. She’s been extremely successful in affecting political change in the past too. climate speech. shows recently.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. It was our way of confronting those laws and those systems. They ripple out into the local economy.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Weeks before the November 8 election, national political debate centers on control of Congress. Wilce is the treasurer of Arizona Water Defenders, the political action committee that brought the question to the ballot. While state-level decisions this year are about money, local initiatives focus on law and policy.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 18, 2024

Then, trouble was clearly in the wind when six members of the Greenbelt Council resigned in 2020. 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. You know when you can feel it in your gut, right?

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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. ” Energy Policy 140 (2020): 111428. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018).

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 26, 2022

A 10-page article by Holland & Knight’s Jennifer Hernandez, published this month by the Center for Jobs & the Economy/California Business Roundtable, documents that CEQA litigation targeted nearly 50,000 housing units – approximately half the state’s total annual housing production – in 2020 alone. Please contact Arthur F.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Deluzio Pushes For Passage Of Rail Safety Legislation In Congress [PA Bill Stuck In Senate] 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- AAA Gasoline Prices: Pennsylvania $3.85; National $3.82 ; Ohio $3.52 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drill Rigs Same (..)

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Old Navy, which has more than 1,000 retail locations, has announced that as it did for the 2020 election, it will pay store employees who serve as poll workers in 2022 elections (. However, many saw that as little more than pandering given that more than 30 states require by law employers give workers time off to vote on election day.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

On the cusp of these two regulatory programs, pushing broad sectors of the economy to the next frontier in innovation, SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative at a Cost and Maryland Resets its Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law , a quick 800 word refresher about GHG emissions makes an ideal blog post. emission trends.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2020, the Supreme Court held a preliminary public hearing for the parties to present facts on deforestation in the Amazon and the results achieved by the PPCDAm between 2004 and 2020. These five cases deal with environmental issues that indirectly have climate implications, while ADPF 760 and ADO 59 directly raise climate claims.

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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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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Last spring Lisa Heinzerling published a review in the Michigan Law Review of Richard Lazarus's The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court (Harvard UP, 2020). The book is crowded with ambitious lawyers, wise judges, tangled law, and stately courtrooms.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The EU’s 2020 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that the Member States must collectively achieve 20% of their energy consumption from renewables by 2020.

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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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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

NYCI’s immediate linkage with WCI could also be seen as politically desirable. If initial allowance prices are also high in New York State, it could stoke political opposition to NYCI. If initial allowance prices are also high in New York State, it could stoke political opposition to NYCI.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The discussion resonated with concerns about academic liberties, especially in light of events like the expulsion of “a Hungarian university,” highlighting the paramount importance of upholding the rule of law. Science thrives when it transcends political influences and financial barriers.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Wind development in the GOM began to gain traction in late 2020 when Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards formally requested that BOEM form an intergovernmental task force to study the feasibility of wind energy in the GOM. REN-N03 (May 27, 2020). The Construction and Operations Plan for this project was approved by BOEM in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

Joe’s greatest accomplishments include the drafting of Philadelphia’s mandatory recycling law, forcing the Commonwealth to implement an automobile emissions inspection program, securing funding for, and helping to form, Community Energy, Inc., (a

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The case was brought in November 2020 by a group of senior women who allege that their health is threatened by heat waves worsened by the climate crisis and that the Swiss government, by failing to adequately address that crisis, violated their human rights.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil , the Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) calls upon the Brazilian Federal Government to take appropriate measures to comply with the federal law that instituted the National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC ) and thus enforce compliance with the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm. Background.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

2 In The Country When It Comes To Citizen Militias, What Does Constitution Say About That?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

We see the danger in front of us, yet we have no meaningful laws to protect democracy. The Federal Election Commission and Congress are both pursuing policies to limit the use of deep fakes in campaign ads, but currently there are no federal laws or regulations as the 2024 primaries swing into full gear.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog post was co-authored by Martha Kinsella, former senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. To keep such episodes from happening, states need to put in place laws and policies to safeguard the integrity of science used in policymaking.

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Environmental Progress

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to flag election and Covid misinformation to social media platforms in 2020 and 2021 say that they didn’t break the law. A longtime US Navy officer and a UK military contractor created the so-called anti-disinformation wing of the CTIL in 2020. Researchers asked by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2024

It is not a political document. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was originally signed into law by President Nixon in 1970 and is considered the Magna Carta of federal environmental laws, as my colleague David Watkins writes. And consideration of cumulative impacts has been part of it dating back to at least 1997.

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Environmental Progress

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I regret to inform the Subcommittee that the scope, power, and law-breaking of the Censorship Industrial Complex are even worse than we had realized back in March. One’s commitment to free speech means nothing if it does not extend to your political enemies. All of this is profoundly unAmerica.

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