PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2024

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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. In 2025, the reduction is slated to be increased to 6.5%.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In past rulemakings, CARB accounted for this policy overlap by only including climate benefits that exceed those required by federal law. Alternative 1 described in the ISOR has roughly 25 percent less biobased diesel at the peak in 2025, so roughly 1.5 It is hard to understand precisely how CARB modeled Alternative 1. billion gallons.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

The Netherlands’ Green Deal serves as a successful example, with 30-40 cities committing to implementing ZEZ by 2025. This target has been incorporated into the National Climate Agreement, a binding law that ensures political commitment to implementation.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A first draft shows that more than two billion Euros in total shall be invested into hydrogen development until 2025. The backdrop for these ambitions at EU level is the current work that is being conducted at the European Commission to complete a set of gas-related laws and regulations (so called gas package).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). Following a similar timeline, it is likely that the ICJ will render an opinion in the second half of 2024 or in the first half of 2025.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The bill for this framework was set to be voted on this August by the Senate, although political impasses are hindering its progress. Gannoum estimates that, if it is approved this year, this will allow areas to be auctioned off in 2025, licences to be granted in 2028 and power plants to begin operating between 2031 and 2032.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

possibly better than anything from the Ancien Régime , that was the social and political system in the Kingdom of France beginning in the 15th century), after 2020, the “real” power consumption of a building is no longer a consideration in DPE. In the finest example of French bureaucracy (.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

“Creating economic opportunity across all of Pennsylvania while advancing sustainability and industrial decarbonization will require all of us to work together outside the political fray, where policymakers hear from those who are on the ground building Pennsylvania's economy and where leaders from across the state's industries learn from one other."

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

To redress this violation, Klimaatzaak asked the Tribunal to set specific—and legally binding—emission reduction targets of 48% in 2025 and 65% in 2030 compared to 1990 levels, achieving net zero emissions by 2050. With the rise of climate law, national governments contracted legal obligations to mitigate climate change.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

C, global emissions must peak by 2025 and be cut in half by 2030, on the way to net zero emissions by mid century.”. Moreover, it is not settled that even a developed nation can attain Net Zero economy wide, or for that matter a state or other political subdivision, or even a business. .

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Candidate, 2024, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law July 31, 2023 The social cost of carbon (SCC) has been the basis for policies such as tax credits for carbon capture technology and zero-emissions credits. trillion each year by 2025 and $30 trillion each year by 2075 if the status quo remains unchanged.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2024

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Riparian rights were inherited and adapted from British common law and are primarily used in rainy eastern states. California has both types of water rights systems used in the United States. A riparian area is the place where land and water meet; riparian water rights are linked to owning the land that borders water. Photo by Amanda Fencl.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The dealers themselves made clear they are feeling the pain of these actions and are struggling to fight back against the manufacturers, embodied best in a plea from one dealer to CARB at the recent hearing to get the manufacturers to “act in the spirit of the Clean Truck Partnership agreement and stop putting politics ahead of public services.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 8, 2024

In Washington, DC, the political party that governs the House, Senate, and White House is rightly portrayed as a major contributor to policy outcomes. But politics alone is far from the only determinant. Oftentimes, it’s the cost – or projected cost – of a program, policy, or bill that can be just as influential.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Most states in the Chesapeake region will miss their 2025 goals for reducing nutrient pollution, which is the main cause of the Bay’s water quality woes. The hope was to have all necessary actions in place by 2025 to meet those goals. The state doesn’t border the Bay, and political power is concentrated outside its watershed.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The claim is grounded on the constitutionally recognized right to a healthy environment; fundamental rights such as the right to life, dignity, health, food, and housing; along with several recognized principles of international environmental law and international climate change commitments. In PSB et al. Brazil (on Amazon Fund).

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. For background on the REPS law, see an earlier post on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to repeal the REPS standard.)

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Article 20 rGR prescribes that transmissions system operaters shall accept cross-border mingled gas streams with up to 5% hydrogen content from 1 October 2025. In a second step the results shall be used for a review of the MER in 2025, according to article 27 (3) MER. Mostly in salt caverns but also depleted gas fields.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP21 Observer Delegation. All of the remaining energy in the building is going toward high-level political meetings that will determine whether this agreement thrives or fails. By Sara Barnowski.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

Many of us remember watching “Schoolhouse Rock” as a kid and learning how a bill becomes law. And now that they’re finished, it’s time for them to turn right around and begin working on funding bills for fiscal year 2025 (FY25). Congress recently wrapped up funding parts of the government for fiscal year 2024 (FY24).

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

1] To facilitate increased production of EVs in the United States, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on August 16, 2022, thereby amending Section 30D of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC).

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

PA Utility Law Project Webinar On Impacts Of LNG Gas Exports On Energy Costs For Pennsylvania Families. Shapiro To Make Major Announcement Wed., March 13 At 10:15 a.m. About New ‘Commonsense’ Energy Policy FRIDAY Noon: Virtual. Noon to 1:00 p.m. Click Here to check availability of live stream. Renwand To Receive PA Bar Assn.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The memo explained that safeguarding against political interference with science is essential for public trust. The Stop Corporate Capture Act , which Representative Pramila Jayapal introduced in the House last year, would codify Chevron deference into law. The potential harms to public health from this decision are extensive.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Posted on October 25, 2024 by Robert Uram Many ACOEL members have served or are serving in the Federal government either as career civil servants or as political appointees. We know from first hand experience of their dedication, expertise and knowledge in the face of great challenges and often shifting political winds.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Political appointees, as I was, help set an agency’s agenda, but we can’t carry it out without the expertise, talent, professionalism, and dedication of career employees. The goal is to replace the most senior and influential senior federal staff with short term political loyalists. That is true regardless of which party is in power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

President-elect Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the roadmap detailed in Project 2025 (which we’ve reported on here , here , here , and here ) certainly seem to suggest that federal agencies, federal scientists, and their work will once again be targets for political interference.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James, a faith-based grassroots organization fighting to reduce pollution in the community, and lawyers at Earthjustice, a national nonprofit environmental law organization, and other community groups led the years long battle. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. billion complex in St.

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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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