Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The law is clear and has been since 1991. What is missing is the strength of will within government to get this sorted.” – Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor for Salmon and Trout Conservation. The post The Stream, September 14, 2021: Could Rainwater Harvesting Solve Water Scarcity in Mexico City? IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a compromise, California law (AB 398) has limited offsets to 4% of compliance obligations for the 2021-2025 period and capped the offsets without in-state benefits that can be utilized for compliance. .

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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. . In the eastern U.S., Photo © U.S.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Four months later, in March 2021, federal lawmakers doubled down on the approach. What’s more, the work required them to form new relationships between government and local agencies. The law requires that these support structures account for no more than 15 percent of the LIHWAP funds. Though LIHWAP was allocated more than $1.1

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

Is federal and California law preventing the amount of prescribed burns or vegetation management we need from occurring? This report (at page 13) notes that in 2017-18, California and the federal government conducted about 80,000 acres of prescribed burns in the state.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In a recent post , I analyzed the California Legislature’s recent passage and Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing into law of two important bills–SB 9 and SB 10–designed to confront California’s well-documented housing crisis. Davis School of Law faculty colleagues Chris Elmendorf and Darien Shanske.).

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What’s Up With Water—December 20, 2021 – This week’s episode covers ongoing drought in Iraq, an investigation into an oil and gas exploration company in southwest Africa, and the annual meeting of Colorado River Basin leaders. “Third Pole” Glaciers Melting At An Alarming Rate, Study Finds. ON THE RADAR.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. This blog post discusses Local Law 154, unpacks Judge Abrams decision, and ends with a refresher on California Restaurant Association v.

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MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 1 PA Bulletin announcing that Impecca is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany that the federal government must adopt an immediate action program (‘Sofortprogramm’) under the Federal Climate Change Act (CCA). Unlike in the 2021 landmark ruling in Neubauer et al. Moreover, the case illustrates how contested some elements of Germany’s climate transformation have been since the 2021 Neubauer decision.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

Last month, the federal government amended the IAA – and the changes mean that major projects can no longer be rejected based on their climate impacts. A strong project review process is the only way governments can assess the environmental and social impacts of major projects like pipelines, mines, transmission lines and dams.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a law that establishes a statewide framework for advancing the long-term availability of the states groundwater resources. 2021-69012-35916] from the U.S. Read the Issue Brief and download the Supplemental Information. RD-84046301-0.

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APRIL 16, 2024

How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines. Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20.

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MARCH 14, 2022

I first wrote a version of this post way back in July 2021, when Ezra Klein dropped a couple of lines knocking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) into one of the op-eds The New York Times loves to perennially run about how California is actually the worst (I’m sorry it can’t be 80 degrees in March everywhere, guys).

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Officials at the state and federal level have launched a full-court press against what the financial industry calls “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) investing. No surprise, the fossil fuel industry is a major sponsor of the Republican Attorneys General Association.).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 17, 2021. But because the trend lines do not look promising, government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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JUNE 10, 2024

He did so without ever notifying federal officials of those diversions, much less paying the federal government for the millions of dollars worth of water Falaschi ordered stolen from the CVP. for sports and concert tickets, private slot machines, etc. At that point, Falaschi resigned from his position as general manager of the District.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Despite laws intended to make our elections accessible and open to every eligible voter, persistent inequalities and inaccessibility mean that LEP voters and voters with disabilities are systematically excluded from fully participating in our elections. Even if jurisdictions do fully comply, the law only extends coverage to certain languages.

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APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2023

Remarkably, however, and despite the fact that the federal government negotiated two important 19th century treaties with the Navajo Nation, the U.S. government has never seen fit to expressly provide federal water rights to the Nation to make its expansive reservation fully habitable. Navajo Nation and U.S. Navajo Nation.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 13, 2021. Circumscribed in a body of law and policy known as the Law of the River, the math is complex and arcane, setting water deliveries across seven states and Mexico. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. New numbers will soon be added, altering the equation.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition?

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

State water managers and the federal government say they will include tribes in upcoming Colorado River policymaking negotiations for the first time. Like any government in the southwest, tribal nations see water as a cornerstone of growing their communities and local economies while supporting the livelihoods and well-being of their members.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 15, 2021

A lack of funding and attention from the federal government has left water and power systems in the United States increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. A coalition of rural South African residents are fighting for clean water after years of infrastructure projects weren’t finished by the federal government. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” The International Energy Agency’s comprehensive report said reaching global climate targets requires a complete overhaul of our energy system—and no new investments in new oil, gas and coal from 2021 onwards.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. We spent years fighting for much-needed legislation to strengthen Canada’s environmental laws and fix the broken project review process. That’s why we’re in court defending this law.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030.

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MAY 26, 2022

In the year since, there have been even more important advances in climate litigation seeking to hold companies and governments accountable for climate harms. Instead of warning the world and transitioning away from fossil fuels, the industry spent the last 50-plus years spreading disinformation and obstructing government action.

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MAY 11, 2023

Water systems are already required by federal law to send an annual Consumer Confidence Report to customers with details about drinking water contaminants. In the 2021 report card, drinking water systems received a C- and wastewater systems a D+. Photo courtesy of Patrick under Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA 2.0

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

He will describe how the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, new programs have been established to inventory and properly close orphaned wells. The law allocates $4.7 billion for plugging, remediation, and restoration activities on federal, Tribal, state, and private lands.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions? and Australia.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2021

Hotspots H2O: Longstanding Drought in Iran Begets Farmer Protests, Power Outages, and Widespread Water Rationing – A decades-long drought in one of the warming world’s most arid regions, heightened by what many consider to be governmental mismanagement, has set the state for a severe, dangerously dry 2021. law to block their distribution.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – November 10, 2021. Four months later, in March 2021, federal lawmakers doubled down on the approach. What’s more, new relationships between government and local agencies had to be formed. The law allows no more than 15 percent of LIHWAP funds to be spent on these support structures.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Acting Secretary Shirley described the process that was established in law on October 10, 1980 by an amendment to the Administrative Code Section 1920-A (h) that allows any person to petition to issue a new regulation or repeal an existing regulation. No rule or law. Obviously, public comment periods, but there is a process of review.

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