Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Unprecedented flooding in Barbados and Brazil in May 2024 displaced thousands, while floods in Pakistan in 2022 displaced approximately 8 million people. that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

In October 2022, Sen. The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. million-- a nearly $100 million decrease from $178.9 Read more here. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

He was invited to speak at a high-level meeting convened by the COP Presidency—an unparalleled opportunity to personally cultivate political leaders from around the world and attempt to define the terms of the energy transition in ways that perpetuate reliance on fossil fuel products and grow corporate profits.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2025

We thus also employ the concept of fossil sovereignty to highlight the relative independence of the fossil-friendly legal infrastructure vis-a-vis political interference. In 2022, the three arbitrators found that Italy had violated Rockhopper’s property rights and had to pay the company US$250 million in compensation for lost profits.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Colorado River, shrinking due to a warming climate, has been in shortage condition since 2022, a situation that has cut Arizonas allocation from the river by at least 18% annually. Behind all the political maneuvering is one overriding question: How should Arizonas limited water be used?

2025

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

This blog explores how Chile is navigating this complex terrain, examining the environmental impacts of lithium mining, the legal and political responses to social resistance, and the deeper tensions between economic ambition, Indigenous rights, and ecological stewardship. At the regulatory level, oversight has also intensified.

Politics

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Administrative Engagement We were in touch with career and political staff at USDA nearly daily in 2024, working hard to keep the agency in contact with farmers and organizations in the field and responsive to their needs through calls, meetings, and directing feedback from the field to USDA.

2024

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Million In Grants To Support 307 Recreation, Land Conservation, Tree Planting Projects Across Pennsylvania; Next Grant Round Opens Jan. 23 Workshop On Holiday Greens Creations - Bring Home The Cheer In Wayne County -- North Branch Land Trust: Dec.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

These efforts to hinder examination of the impacts of strict state abortion laws on pregnant people are a political play that only serves to put women and families at risk of even greater harm. The committee decided to not review cases from 2022 and 2023 to be more contemporary.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

DEP Issues Violation To Highlands Sporting Clays For Lead Contamination Of Blue Hole Creek In Somerset County -- TribLive: DEP: Lead In Laurel Hill Creek Linked To Shooting Range In Somerset County -- Courier Times: DEP Told Trumbauersville To Find The Source Of Polluted Ditch Water, But Have They?

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

But this is more political opportunism than productive problem solving. UCS and other groups have been calling for the state to develop a petroleum phaseout plan since 2022 , and the government has responded, created new regulatory authorities and a planning process at the California Energy Commission (CEC) and other state agencies.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

EPAs answer to this EO was their 2022 Equity Action Plan , where they set out an ambitious goal to release a Cumulative Impacts Framework document by September 23, 2023. I think it is worth it to tell EPA, on the public record, that this approach is going to keep people safer and healthier, regardless of the political constraints.

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enacted in 2023, the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act directs the EPA to address hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by phasing down the production and consumption of HFCs in the United States by 85% by 2036, mirroring the Kigali Amendment (a climate-related treaty that the Senate had ratified in 2022.

Law

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“DEP’s job is to protect people and the environment from pollution, and increasing minimum setback distances from fracking sites should be an obvious next step to protect everyone in the Commonwealth regardless of one’s politics.” There is no evidence that shale gas development can be done without harm to human health,” said Alison L.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These obstacles include governance structures, political economy, decision-making dynamics and environmental justice concerns. From April 2022 to July 2023, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as deputy general counsel for energy efficiency and clean energy demonstrations at the U.S.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The target was officially met in 2022 after a two-year delay. billion in climate finance provided in 2022 was private sector cash. Additionally, in 2022, 69% of the USD 91 billion in public climate finance was loaned at market-based interest rates. The question of how this pledge would be fulfilled was left unanswered.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2022-2024, general science and basic research made up 8-9% of the total federal research and development budget. This support ensures a continuous pipeline of knowledge and technologies that can address future challenges In 2022-2024, general science and basic research made up 8-9% of the total federal research and development budget.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

. -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., 10-11 Navigating Chance Policy Conference [PaEN] -- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: Electric Road Trip Makes Pit Stop At Allegheny County Electric Vehicle Mechanic Training Program -- EPA: Liberty-Clairton In Allegheny County Makes Progress In Meeting PM2.5,

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Originally intended, as the name suggests, to protect investments in politically unstable nations, this mechanism has morphed into a tool for corporations to challenge national policies (including environmental protections) in international arbitration tribunals against sovereign nations.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

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Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations. While 2022 had fewer billion-dollar disasters (18), it was a record-setting year for the cost of damages with a total cost of $165 billion.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2025

Satellite imagery captured in 2022 reveals the retreat of the Zachari Isstrm, the largest glacier in Greenland. Photo credit: NASA/USGS. Zachari Isstrm For instance, the melting of the Zachari Isstrm glacier exposed 81 km of coastline, twice as much as any other glacier in the northern hemisphere.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

Economics will trump politics here, so long as demand growth remains robust and supply chains and project costs are not too adversely affected by tariffs, inflation and regulatory uncertainty. In California, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced winners of five offshore wind leases in 2022, with the potential to power over 1.5

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

First recommended in December 2022.] The passage of Act 96 in 2022 made the situation even worse by taking from the Environmental Quality Board its never-exercised authority over well bonding. That we are still leaving this up to taxpayers and political whims. The contagion is spreading to the unconventional industry.

Waste

Smith Enviorment

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

In 2022, the EMC adopted a rule setting a numerical water quality standard for 1,4 dioxane. Several cities submitted comments to the RRC opposing the 1,4 dioxane standard proposed by the EMC in 2022. The order voided the 1,4 dioxane limit on the City of Asheboro NPDES permit. The rule could not go into effect unless the N.C.

2023

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

Decision of Prague Municipal Court in 2022 On June 15, 2022, the Prague Municipal Court upheld the mitigation claims against four ministries, but dismissed the claims against the government, as well as the claims regarding adaptation (see full analysis in a blog post from October 2022 ).

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

27] A large hole in Friedmans Maximization Model is his assumption that business and its profit calculations are separable from the political system that is supposed to adopt laws to control pollution and other externalities. As Paul Hawken wrote more than 30 years ago: There is no polite way to say business is destroying the world. [39]

Law

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The GOPs move against the National Science Foundation is part of a broader Republican rejection of federally funded climate and environmental science that does not align with the partys political and cultural aims.

2015

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It examines the implications of the 2010 earthquake on toxic waste management, and how the nations ongoing political crisis exacerbates the challenges of waste regulation. 12] As of 2022, the law emphasizes solid, medical, and high-toxicity waste without providing precise definitions for those terms.[13] million people.[3]

Waste

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. Douglas Fox; November 2022. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

million vehicles from 2022 to 2023, a thirty five percent year over year increase. In California 25 percent of all new vehicle sales are electric and in the state of Washington, 20 percent. The global picture is even brighter; EVs account for almost one in five new vehicle sales. Global sales increased by 3.5

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2025

We need more of that in our politics. The fact that these gentlemen and others who served on this committee were willing to take a little risk, willing to be open about the threats that they faced and work together to find common ground, that's the Pennsylvania way.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

AUGUST 1, 2025

During the ICJ proceedings, a number of States had invoked the existence of such a right, which the UN General Assembly recognized in 2022. Notably, in this crucial phrase the ICJ did not explicitly refer to the highly relevant UN Convention on the Rights of the Child ( UNCRC ).

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

API also targets an EPA waiver for a 2022 California rule that would reduce pollution from new gasoline-powered cars while increasing sales requirements for zero-emission vehicles. API flexes formidable political muscle, with its policy submissions to the previous Trump administration entering the regulatory record practically verbatim.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

Chips To China After CEO Meets With President International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas [ Energy Independence Means Renewables ] -- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.15 Ohio- $3.00

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

. -- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 19 & 21 -- The Center Square: Extended LIHEAP Energy Assistance Proposed In PA [In Face Of Proposed 100% Federal Cut] -- Williamsport Sun: Muncy Creek Twp.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

Honore (Retired) [Stop Selling LNG To Our Competitors] -- US DOE Releases Response To Comments On 2024 LNG Gas Export Study Saying No Discernible Impact On Climate Emissions, Minimizing Impacts On Prices [DOE Said The Opposite In December ] Other States -- Utility Dive: Electric Utilities Must Disclose PJM Votes Under New Maryland Law -- The Guardian: (..)

Electricity