Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Statement by Alienor Rougeot, Senior Program Manager, Climate and Energy, on Ontario’s claims regarding the federal Clean Electricity Regulations. The federal government’s proposed regulations to reduce emissions in electricity generation are achievable without breaking the bank.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Eagle County , has important implications for issues such as whether NEPA covers climate change impacts. In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. The facts are quite unusual.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But what makes the case important is the courts use of hard look judicial review, which environmentalists have often used to attack bad regulations. It helped create the framework for regulating pesticides and upheld the use of a precautionary approach rather than requiring EPA to have definitive evidence. v.EPA (1975). EPA (2012 ).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

Prime Minister Trudeaus recent decision to prorogue Parliament and announce his upcoming resignation may have left you wondering about what this could mean for climate change policy. All political leaders should be bolder on climate. It is unlikely that the government will last long once Parliament resumes.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The problem is that focusing on the challenges of litigation risks overlooking the second RoN strategy, one that may prove much more important in the USA over time — RoN through Governance. Instead, national legislation has created a governance structure for a forest, river, and lagoon. But, even here, the challenge remains.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Someone asked me recently what I thought law schools should be teaching about climate change. Naturally, my first reaction is that everyone everywhere needs to put climate change at the top of their agenda. Land use law is another subject that may be transformed by climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

This may seem like a setback for climate progress in Canada, but it simply underscores the limits of voluntary initiatives and the need for the government to enforce climate-aligned financial regulations. Four of our largest banks have recently withdrawn from the UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA).

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. Implications for China.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

Overly focusing on technological innovation will miss the basic changes needed to drive the clean energy transition at scale and at pace today, including required breakthroughs on collaboration, collective action, communication, governance, and business model reforms. People can no longer deny climate change must be addressed.

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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. ii) Peoples and individuals of the present and future generations affected by the adverse effects of climate change?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

Treaty 6 Territory | Edmonton – After two years of tireless work by Indigenous communities, environmental organizations, and the public demanding governments hold Imperial Oil accountable for its egregious behaviour, the AER has finally laid charges against the company. Background: The Imperial Oil tailings disaster allowed 5.3

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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. The report is intended to help policymakers harness satellite data to improve their climate policies, enforce emissions regulations, and accelerate methane reduction efforts.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. It means that vulnerable systems are even more at risk in a changing climate. The federal government passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, and spending on drinking water and wastewater systems skyrocketed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has known for decades that its products cause climate chang e Contrary to what the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe, the link between burning fossil fuels and climate change has been well established for decades.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. Could this activity change the climate?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

CLEE published excerpts from the 922 page Project 2025 document related to climate change and environment, here. As the Paper states: The Heritage Foundation’s Schedule F proposal would change the current system dramatically.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Thats why I was happy to partner with Environmental Defence and use my platform to promote renewable energy, action against climate change, and our most valuable resource: wide open untouched, healthy nature. For winter athletes, climate change poses existential risks to doing what they love.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board. Yet would anyone say that the government should therefore ignore the risk of a lab accident. Other agencies may have jurisdiction over disease control.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/ Frank van Beek This blog post is Part 3 of a three-part series highlighting the main legal arguments presented during the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the request for an advisory opinion regarding the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, these efforts are necessary, but not sufficient to meet global climate targets. The Sabin Center has previously discussed the regulation of OAE here and here. In Washington State, certain state laws regulate ocean resources.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

But the federal government in the United States has failed to address it so far. Aviation is a significant and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. Opponents will undoubtedly argue that such state-based initiatives conflict with federal law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2022

The ups: on April 6 th , Pinterest announced a new policy to keep “false and misleading claims around climate change off the platform.” It’s hard to say Musk’s ownership will mean for Twitter’s policies about lying about climate change and other vital social issues, but some early commenters are skeptical.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

That would be the straw man erected by defenders of the fossil fuel industry who claim that facing climate change is a doctrinaire liberal policy. This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” Liberate” is the operative word here.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

But such a question is not an optimal proxy for a sea level rise hazard disclosure because FEMA’s maps only reflect past flood experience rather than “ the degree to which climate change and sea-level rise are expected to heighten the risk of flooding and expand the areas that will be subject to flooding in the future.”

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Statement by Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People –We welcome the analysis released today from Environment and Climate Change Canada on the economic impacts of the consumer fuel charge and the industrial carbon pricing mechanism.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. Environmental Defence has been calling on the federal government to stand up to Big Oil and hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its pollution.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There are three interlinked reasons for the change. Climate change. The key to getting climate change under control is to rapidly decrease the user of fossil fuels. The resulting government policies are forcing radical change on the energy system of a kind not seen in a century or more.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

One post focused on the federal government’s successful criminal prosecution of a San Joaquin Valley water district manager who illegally diverted millions of gallons of water from the government’s Central Valley Project for more than two decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Louder calls to accelerate the energy transition, advances in climate litigation, and shareholder activism pushed many governments and financial institutions around the world to acknowledge the need for transparency regarding climate-related financial risk.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. There’s no logical connection between a belief in authoritarian government, upholding traditional hierarchies, and views about protecting the environment or the reality of climate change. That’s not a coincidence.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. There are a number of co-benefits to seaweed projects, in addition to their climate change mitigation potential. Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Climate change in California isn’t a future threat; we are already dealing with extreme drought and destructive wildfires. This proposal would support both zero- emission vehicle incentive programs and charging infrastructure investments while complementing existing regulations on clean vehicles. What does Proposition 30 do?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Montréal/Tiohtià:ke | Traditional, unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation, a gathering place for many First Nations, including the Anishinaabeg – We are disappointed that the Government of Alberta is attacking the federal government’s attempts to clamp down on greenwashing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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