Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

September 22, 2022 . That’s because phosphorus applications on farmland have increased since the early years of the century, according to a comprehensive 2022 evaluation by the U.S. Olson, one of the state’s leading environmental lawyers and founder of FLOW, a non-profit water law and advocacy group in Traverse City.

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here are the biggest stories of 2022. The biggest of these stories is the Inflation Reduction Act, the first major climate law ever to pass Congress. It should also have a snowball effect, leading to economies of scale, increased innovation, and a growing political base for further action. billion tons over the next decade.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

They introduced a similar bill last session, and the legislation has the public support of more than 170 political scientists who submitted a public letter of support to the House of Representatives. And this public sentiment isnt off base: political scientists agree our democracy is backsliding. According to Reps.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

So for my last Climate Law and Policy class at UCLA Law this semester, I once again asked my students to tell me what they are thinking about the future of climate policy in light of today’s global circumstances, keeping in mind lessons we’ve learned through the semester. –Sean Post, JD 2022. –Kelsey Manes, JD 2022.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. The law built on the Safeguard Mechanisms.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

The documents also offer evidence that Ministers’ offices, other than that of Housing Minister Steve Clark, were involved as early as January 2022, prior to the June 2022 election, and yet the government still kept Ontario voters in the dark. These redactions call that timeline into question.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

In Pennsylvania, where the constitution already recognizes environmental rights, the state Supreme Court has used the provision to strike down parts of state law. 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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The California Legislature recently enacted, and Governor Gavin Newsom last week signed into law, two major housing reform measures. SB 9 and SB 10 represent California’s most transformative new housing laws in decades, and are a belated but welcome legislative response to the state’s longstanding housing crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

A lot must be done to change the water rights system in California, yet, even communities that have been “systematically marginalized” by the system share an interest in improving its enforcement, including stopping water theft, as outlined in the 2022 California Curtailment Cases Amicus Brief. AB 460 seeks to prevent just that.

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JULY 14, 2022

The largest saline lake in the western hemisphere, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record low in 2022 as a result of a hot drought that increased evaporation and decreased water flows. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – July 14, 2022. 4) Drought Is Political. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue. Harsh and unrelenting.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2022 was no different, with courts further delineating the procedural dimensions of climate cases and expanding on the responsibilities of stakeholders for climate mitigation and adaption. In June 2022, the Prague Municipal Court ruled in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Water is poised for prominence this year in state law and policy. General fund revenue in 2022 grew more than 14 percent overall. Favorable political alignments could help many states convert water worries into action. Passing new laws is easier with this arrangement. Rather than being depleted, reserves are overflowing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) intervened in the case with the Ecology Center, Environmental Law & Policy Center, and Vote Solar, focusing our testimony on energy justice, community solar and energy storage, and equitable grid transition issues. Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Rapp (R-Warren) Defends Indoor Smoking -- PA Politics Of Russian Invasion -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA Average- $3.60; National Average- $3.33; Ohio Average- $3.16 -- PUC Alert: Dec. 1 Utility Prices Are Changing - Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8%

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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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OCTOBER 26, 2023

In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Energy Firms Use Ukraine War To Lock In Long-Term Natural Gas Contracts -- The Guardian: U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 20, 2022

In order to head off this looming disaster it is vital that Ontario’s elected representatives force an immediate u-turn in laws and policies around land use planning, highways and transportation, and watershed planning and flood protection. In particular, Environmental Defence has asked all of the major political parties to commit to: .

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

And political malpractice is a new category. There oughta be a law … While the world needs energy, your Administration commits govenmental malpractice. With it being Lent and all, we ask, are this year’s Ferrymen of the River Styx using these 40 days to turn from wickedness and find their way to repentence? Punishment: Pending.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The initial core loading of fuel, likely containing around 30% U-235 or less, was supplied by TVEL in 2022. China’s imports of enriched uranium from Russia in 2022 and 2023 increased compared with pre-2020 levels, as seen in Figure 1. Where China gets its uranium Russia and China’s nuclear cooperation has deepened in recent years.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

How much does control of the Senate matter for purposes of environmental law? Here’s how the races are rated by two leading political forecasting outfits: State. If Congress remains in Democratic hands, the Democrats can make another run at a reconciliation bill. The State of Play. Cortez (D). Open (currently R). Warnock (D).

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JANUARY 26, 2023

We know that these efforts were in direct service of the coal industry because in October 2022, Senator Mills was presented an award by the Kentucky Coal Association (KCA) specifically for his work to pass that bill. I know we can agree that we don’t want political grabs for power to fall on us taxpayers.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the study, we found that political power dynamics shape international negotiations, that the Paris Agreement temperature goal doesn’t fully account for the dangers of sea level rise, and that climate justice requires fully considering diverse views and experiences of climate change. they would experience 1.2 times the global mean.

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MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Currently, only 24 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring them to set targets and track their greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. A single project can take years or decades to go from an idea to implementation and can go through political twists and turns along the way. They just need to put them together.

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JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). Momentum created by this event created the perfect conditions and political will to move forward with an ambitious bill on Climate Change, submitted to Congress in January, 2020. By Robert Currie Ríos*. Paradigm Shift.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2014, the California legislature passed into law the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) , and for the first time, groundwater basins in the state would need to start cutting back on over-drafting our shared groundwater resource. This is definitely the case in the Cuyama Valley.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

In January 2022, the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruling on a Sierra Club lawsuit stripped the Mountain Valley Pipeline of construction permits in the Jefferson National Forest. Scientific expertise without local, political, or legal knowledge is not enough to take on powerful organizations.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. candidate at Berkeley Law.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

But under current law, Michigan regulators have little ability to force local communities to engage in such partnerships. And “visceral political distrust,” particularly between leaders of majority-black cities and majority-white suburbs, further complicates consolidation, Teodoro said. “There’s no other way to do it,” he said.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. The resulting economic growth also helps create a stronger political base for aggressive expansion of clean energy. Prices for battery storage have declined even more sharply.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Loss of wild rice would cut to the core of Ojibwe culture.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Student at Berkeley Law. She serves as Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, North South University, Bangladesh, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Climate Justice- Bangladesh. Sharaban Tahura Zaman is a J.S.D She is an environmental lawyer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is an environmental lawyer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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APRIL 1, 2022

With that in mind, the cover feature of the new April 2022 issue of Physics World magazine , is sure to intrigue you. You can also read the article on the website from Monday 4 April 2022. Crisis in Ukraine – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a test for those who want science and politics kept apart. • Michael Banks investigates.

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