Union of Concerned Scientists

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. In 2023, in the U.S.,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on States obligations regarding climate change. State Responsibilities in Climate Change: What Law Applies?

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

That’s true for two reasons: first, the federal government plays only a modest role when it comes to administering and enforcing water rights laws. water rights administration is primarily the responsibility of state regulators, applying and enforcing state laws. That’s because across the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. That’s not unique to Montana , even though this case focused on state laws. The decision builds off of the plaintiffs’ own proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. Who will do the pushing?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign into law tomorrow. But, with new legislators taking office in 2023, advocates joined with representatives and senators to prioritize clean energy action and hammered out a package that could pass. Michigan legislators recently passed a series of energy-related bills that Gov.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. 2023 ) offers a sound guide here. Conventional governance toolkits offer few if any tools designed for problems involving non-linear relationships and huge time-lags between cause and effect. Earth system justice ( Gupta et al.,

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 18, 2024

Green , and James Bee On 15 March 2024, EU Member States endorsed the Belgian Presidency’s political deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), despite Germany abstaining from the vote. Davies , Michael D. For more information on the original proposal, refer to this Latham blog post.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

January 5, 2023. Hughes water supply options for Teravalis, some available now, others that will require a change in state law and regulation, include tapping another aquifer and delivering water by pipeline. The law also requires developers to replenish aquifers with the same amount of water that they withdraw. . BUCKEYE, AZ.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The law allows no more than 15 percent of LIHWAP funds to be spent on these support structures. A budget act signed into law in July allocated $985 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to that purpose. Though LIHWAP was allocated more than $1.1 billion, not all of that money will help people in need.

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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. The law requires that these support structures account for no more than 15 percent of the LIHWAP funds. Trenchard underscored the importance of supporting farmers through this tumultuous period.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By Ama Francis* Ama Francis speaking in the “People on the Move: Seeing the Opportunities” session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 19 January. Unfortunately, international and domestic laws are wildly out-of-sync with today’s challenges and don’t adequately address current needs.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Two weeks ago, the Zambezi River Authority ordered the operators of Kariba Dam to halt hydropower generation through at least January 2023, worsening electricity shortages in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Legal scholars called the targeting of essential infrastructure a violation of international law. Disasters are horrific and noteworthy.

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Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Winter/Spring 2023 Semi-annual Report, which includes a summary of the Center’s key activities between January and June 2023. Michael Burger was featured among the “Power Players in Climate, Energy and Sustainability” in Politics NY. It is available for download here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change. On March 1, 2023, Vanuatu announced overwhelming support for the draft resolution with 105 co-sponsor states.

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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. We got what we paid for—it wasn’t great.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

On 5 February 2024, the European Parliament and Council of the EU announced that they had reached a provisional political agreement on the text of the ESG Ratings Regulation (the Regulation). The agreed text was subsequently published on 14 February 2024.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. Critically, the Juliana case relied on federal law. Supreme Court–decided in a 2020 ruling that the young Juliana plaintiffs lacked legal standing to bring their lawsuit under federal law.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 12, DEP, DCNR and many guests dedicated the Law Library Conference Room in the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to Franklin Kury, the legislative author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment to the state Constitution. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

December 14, 2023. General Assembly returned to a very aggressive effort to influence environmental rules in 2023. Farm Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 582) and the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023 (House Bill 600) all contained provisions weakening existing environmental protections and in some cases preventing adoption of new standards.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As I noted in my introductory post on the Commission, I served as an advisor to the Secretariat and my students in the UCLA International Climate Law and Policy Clinic provided research and analytic support to the Secretariat. It is thus consistent with large body of prior international law.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2023

5:15 to 6:15 p.m. -- Philly Voice: Greening Vacant Lots In Philly Raised Surrounding Property Values By 4.3% In First Year, Wharton Business School Study Finds -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Looks To Spend $2.6

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 19, 2023

Antitrust law today is the subject of intense public and political focus.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 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.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

Capitol Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: January 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Steven Miano I recently had the opportunity to speak at a State University of New York (SUNY) conference for a group of exceptional primary and high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers. My presentation was titled: Environmental Disasters that Led to Environmental Laws.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Million -- TribLive: Fetterman Says He Is ‘Not A Progressive’ Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Threads PA Environment Digest Feed Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: December 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest Keystone Goldwater Conference Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Montgomery County 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Slump 7.5%

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The final two days included technical presentations, policy discussions, and political dialogue at every level. Stay tuned for additional Legal-Planet posts during and following these upcoming events. Download as PDF. The post GCF Task Force Exchange of Experiences in San Martin, Peru appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 18, 2024

Hands off the Greenbelt In 2023, we rallied. 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. Then, trouble was clearly in the wind when six members of the Greenbelt Council resigned in 2020. The land was safe.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

Statement by Aliénor Rougeot, Program Manager, Climate and Energy It is good news for workers and communities that the Sustainable Jobs Act is one step closer to becoming law. Background: Bill C-50, the Sustainable Jobs Act, was tabled in the House of Commons in June 2023.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

Many GCF Task Force states and provinces are actively revising existing laws and also adopting new laws, policies, and programs to advance a new forest economy. Members of the GCF Task Force formally launched the MAP during the opening ceremony of the GCF Task Force’s 12 th Annual Meeting on Thursday, March 17. Download as PDF.

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