Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Also like a sine graph, Union of Concerned Scientists will keep moving forward no matter what (and backward technically, but I am political science major and way out of my depth here, so let’s pretend they only move forward, give me kudos for an awesome simile, and get to the recap!). Much like a sine graph , this year had highs and lows.

Fossil Fuels

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. In 2013 he organized a fundraising dinner at Calgary’s Petroleum Club to help raise political donations to former BC Premier Christy Clark’s re-election campaign.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For carbon pricing, the takeaway is that it is a poor tool to initiate climate policy sequencing with, and will generally work best as a subsidiary policy tool, or a follow-on to regulatory or subsidy approaches. That is a recipe for very difficult politics, and indeed, carbon pricing has a poor history of political success.

Politics

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2025

A recent Abacus poll showed that 7 out of 10 Canadians across the country want to see limits being placed on oil and gas pollution to avoid the economic and health risks associated with climate change. Even in Alberta, the majority of the population supports regulating oil and gas pollution. It is a test of political integrity.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MAY 20, 2025

In the first three months of 2025 weve already seen Big Oil come out swinging at climate policy and government decision makers. The fossil fuel industry used the election to flex their political influence and try to make gains during this period of change at the federal level. What are these companies lobbying for?

2025

Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2025

In its advisory opinion on Climate Change , the International Court of Justice (ICJ) raises the spectre of illegality for high emitters’ continued support of fossil fuels. Over time, fossil interests have become legally entrenched in a way that has, to date, largely withstood pressure for change. 4 of the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 24, 2025

This is a shocking abdication of responsibility from Canadas financial regulators. Mandatory climate-related disclosure rules are essential for financial regulators to meet their mandates to ensure the stability of the financial system and reduce systemic risk. The CSA is being regressive. New rules are needed.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2025

Financial instability in the oil and gas sector, coupled with industry bankruptcies, has exposed significant flaws in current regulations. Against this background, on May 2, 2025, Ocean Conservancy and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law hosted a workshop at Columbia Law School on offshore oil and gas decommissioning in the United States.

Law

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

The IOC creates an Olympic Forest As 2024 was the hottest year on record, fuelled by the continued burning of fossil fuels , scientists say that climate change, as well as the El Niño weather phenomenon, were the most significant contributors. 2024 wildfire hotspots in South America.

2024

Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2025

It serves Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, ensuring these EFTA states comply with EU/EEA law, including some EU directives and regulations that are relevant in the context of the EEA, such as the EU Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive (2011/92/EU). 3(2) ESA and EFTA Court Agreement ). (i) Biofor Sverige ).

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

22 Webinar On New Guidebook For Municipalities On Large-Scale Solar Development [PaEN] -- MCall: Lehigh Valley Success Presents Climate Change Challenges We Will Meet Head-On - By Lehigh Valley Planning Commission -- Nov. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

Conservation

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

As the world’s attention turns toward COP30, Brazil’s evolving environmental strategies will play a crucial role in shaping global discussions on sustainability, climate change, and conservation efforts. Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6%

2025

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

This normative pressure may catalyze climate justice advancement across the continent, potentially compelling broader institutional engagement with climate obligations irrespective of formal ratification status.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This tensionbetween exciting breakthroughs and persistent delaysunderscores the complexity of litigation’s role in climate governance. With this in mind, here are three key developments that I believe will shape climate litigation in 2025. in the absence of federal leadership.

2025

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In his first term, Trump waged a war on climate science and banned government agencies from using the word “climate change,” which was also removed from government websites.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

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Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Environmental Justice Areas - What You Need to Know Workshop. Burgettstown Public Library, Washington County. 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. June 24-- Agenda Posted. June 25- Agenda Posted. DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2025

A regulation costs only 0.004% of U.S. The regulation costs a billion dollars per year. You often see this problem with climate change. Suppose were told that a regulation will cost 25% of West Virginia coal miners their jobs. A mans assets are only 0.2% GDP per year. A disease kills 0.1% But total U.S.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s a common misconception that Congress has never passed any climate change legislation. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Next up was the Global Climate Protection Act of 1987 , which was signed by Ronald Reagan.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

With all of the attacks on regulatory safeguards coming from the regulators themselves , you may have missed a new bill coming from Congress that would not only codify the mayhem of the current administration but neuter any future administrations attempt to protect consumers and the environment from the auto industry.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We are about to have in the White House a man who thinks solar panels kill bunnies, and windmills cause cancer – a man who rolled back over a hundred environmental regulations in his first term of office. The climate and biodiversity crises are becoming more urgent by the day. If so, the new appointees may fare no better in court.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

public policy and regulations. Eliminating science advisory committees means that public policies and regulations may be ineffective or even harmful. Their transparency, accountability, and nonpartisan expertise helps to ensure that the light they cast is neither dimmed by political ideology nor redirected by financial motives.

Politics

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Few people in the world today do not believe climate change and the health of the environment are extremely prominent issues requiring immediate and extensive action. The 2-degree level is largely understood to be a temperature at which there will be severe climate change impacts. After the first withdrawal, the U.S.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

DEP Compliance Response Klapkowski said, “In response to this non-compliance, DEP has undertaken significant efforts to compel compliance with Pennsylvania’s rules and regulations or penalize operators. It is my hope that one year from now I do not have to come back to Harrisburg to say that nothing has changed again. Read more here.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

I shoulder the stone of environmental responsibility, pushing it uphill while the weight of politics, bureaucracy, elected officials, industry lobbyists, and citizen apathy, all threaten to roll it back. Reducing methane from gas operations is one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to slow climate change now.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Photo: Cara Horowitz Some have described the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku as “challenging,” “ineffective,” and “disappointing.” When we encountered an art installation of a fake whale stranded on land, it was easy to see the metaphor for the climate talks as a whole.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2025

And today, another Globe op-ed (from a Harvard Law School researcher) conceded that Poilievre has no climate plan but it does not matter because Carney and the Liberals do not have any, either, and so “it is hard to tell the two men apart.” As a Canadian citizen, I must politely disagree.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Accountability for past emissions should be a critical part in addressing climate change. Here, Ill describe the data currently available to quantify these emissions, what they tell us about the drivers of climate change, and how we can achieve accountability for its harms moving forward. Who are the Carbon Majors?

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2025

Normally, only the federal EPA can regulate tailpipe emissions from vehicles. But theres an exception that allows California to regulate if it gets a waiver from EPA, and then allows other states to piggyback on California standards. Blue states have politely refrained from that kind of aggressive action.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While California already has robust environmental and climate laws, Biden-era standards on harmful PM2.5 The Legislature could adopt language requiring the state to enforce the current federal standards, or to require state regulators and air districts to adopt regulations that are no less stringent than existing federal standards.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Instead of addressing the many ways climate change threatens the countrys financial stability , his administration is pulling back safeguards in order to reward his Big Oil donors. Trump revoked that order on his first day in office, along with several others related to climate change, public health, and the environment.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2025

That law, the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act (TRCA), gives the state nearly total control over a range of issues, including how cities can protect workers from extreme heat and other impacts of climate change. Preempting whole fields of regulation, the cities argue, is never allowed.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

Data Centers -- PA Capital-Star: Federal Regulators Hear From The Community About Planned Restart Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant To Power Data Centers For Microsoft -- York Daily Record: Restarting Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 Unprecedented?

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

Without specifying the context, the statement The risks of addressing climate change are too large could justify almost any decision from reinforcing a bridge to withstand extreme heat to ignoring greenhouse gas emissions because of the financial losses that the fossil fuel industry would incur. What is Best Available Science?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Meanwhile, Americans have witnessed the unraveling of public health and environmental protections in the pursuit of political advantage. You acknowledged the realities of climate change, the benefits of clean energy, the economic need for environmental justice, and the importance of protecting human health through smart regulation.

Environmental Protection