Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. So the change in government was more than welcome.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This law is a clear setback for open and accountable energy planning and will mean Ontarians are left in the dark about how critical decisions regarding our energy system are made. By concentrating this much power in the hands of one office, the province’s energy planning will happen in backrooms, likely to the benefit of government insiders.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” which has received attention in the Presidential election campaign.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S. That’s not a coincidence. Other factors may also be relevant. Rightwing authoritarians enjoy support from various quarters.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Kober This profile was first published on the PA Conservation Heritage website-- Paul O. In the late 1970s, he worked as a partner in a small business (Conservation Concepts, Inc.) Career In Conservation Begins Pauls conservation career included working at the local, state and regional levels. By Wayne W. Hershey Jr./Sr.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2024

Glen Oaks – a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment owners – sought to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the City’s largest buildings.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

By October 1, Congress will need to fund the government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and determine how to extend ( again ) the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). Since the CAA was signed into law in March 2024, Congress has slowly inched forward its FY2025 appropriations bills , including for USDA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

A just land transition defines Meaningful Benefits for communities Californias Department of Conservation (DOC) has a head start in this area. Throughout various land use transitions in California, the state government has been a complicit partner in enriching certain groups to the detriment of others.

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Vermont Law

MAY 13, 2025

Published: Volume 26, Issue 3 of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law By VJEL Spring 2025 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 26, Issue 3. Analyzing Massachusetts v. EPA and Urgenda Foundation v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2024

The official September 30 deadline for Congress to pass its annual appropriations bills to fund the government for fiscal year 2025 looms closer by the day. The legislation also includes cuts to several priority UCS programs, including: Conservation operations. The House bill provides total funding of $25.9

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

But depending on how far the conservative majority goes in its opinions, a color-blindness mandate would impact EPA. Under current law, if a regulation refers to race in any way, the government must show that the regulation is narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With the September 30 deadline for passing a fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations package looming and no agreement in sight, Congress settled on a temporary fix: they passed a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government at last year’s levels until December 20. Another point of contention is nutrition programming.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

At the time, I thought it was possible his mischaracterization of CEQA was a one-off, but it’s now apparent that Klein has joined the all-out crusade against the law that has existed in one form or another for decades. According to Klein, CEQA has hobbled government, keeping it from tackling the most pressing problems of our day.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Under CEPA, the government has the power to impose penalties as high as $250,000 for the first failure to meet reporting requirements offense and $500,000 for subsequent offenses. Fines under CEPA are credited to the Environmental Damages Fund, which are used for purposes related to protecting, conserving or restoring the environment.

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Law and Environment

JULY 12, 2021

Last week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that the Berkeley ordinance essentially banning use of natural gas in new construction was not preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Moreover, all of these moves were based on the exercise of traditional police powers by local governments. Check and check.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

In a string of really problematic decisions, the US Supreme Court’s ultra-conservative majority has ensured that the hard job of regulatory agencies in protecting the public interest will get even harder, if not impossible in many instances. As far as I can see, Congress can barely agree to fund the government and pay already incurred bills!

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 6, 2021

From implementing extended producer responsibility schemes to banning harmful single-use plastic items, governments at all levels have the ability to make a big difference on all forms of ocean plastic pollution. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post How Can Governments Stop the Deadliest Form of Ocean Plastic?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Lawyers with a conservation group filed a complaint with the UK’s environmental watchdog say the country is failing to stop water companies from discharging raw sewage into rivers. The law is clear and has been since 1991. Lebanon’s water crisis is worsening as its economy crumbles.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Electrification is a critical component of building decarbonization, and local governments are taking a leading role in this policy space. Berkeley decision does and does not say, local governments can better understand that many of them have options for electrifying new buildings. In exploring what the CRA v. Under EPCA, the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2025

Now, were being told that further weakening flood protections, conservation laws and endangered species safeguardswhile subsidizing sprawl, blocking density and spending vast sums of public money on highway projectswill somehow protect us against U.S. aggression. The truth is, U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 8, 2021

If you want to work in the field of marine conservation, it can be difficult to know where to start. Here are three things to keep in mind as you dive into marine conservation. Think about what you enjoy and what you’re good at—odds are you can translate that to working in government, business or the non-profit sector.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2023

Remarkably, however, and despite the fact that the federal government negotiated two important 19th century treaties with the Navajo Nation, the U.S. government has never seen fit to expressly provide federal water rights to the Nation to make its expansive reservation fully habitable. Navajo Nation and U.S. Navajo Nation.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year, the California Legislature enacted SB 9 , which required local governments to allow duplexes (and with ADUs, sometimes triplexes and quadraplexes) in single-family zones. Now the Terner Center has a report on discussions with developers revealing that we still have quite a long way to go to make the law work as intended.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 6, 2024

On May 6, WeConservePA announced the launch of a new Conservation Law Program , led by Director of Conservation Law Justin Hollinger, Esq., to deliver several legal services for the benefit of those working to advance conservation in Pennsylvania. Direct representation.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Wells Clinic in Environmental Law, Cara Horowitz, Julia Stein, and I filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of seven law professors in the Ninth Circuit case California Restaurant Association v. This week, as part of the Frank G. There would be serious consequences to eliminating that authority.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

WeConservePA will honor Cynthia Carrow with the 2025 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award at its PA Land Conservation Conference in State College on April 2-5. Cynthia Carrow began her career at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) in March of 1973, more than 51 years ago. In 1996, Ms.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Now the german government decided to, once again, amend the EEG to accelerate the faltering energy turnaround. This blog entry critically reflects upon the main amendments to the EEG that the government proposes and identifies four crunchpoints. This way of amending laws is a standard procedure in the German legal system.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

Circumscribed in a body of law and policy known as the Law of the River, the math is complex and arcane, setting water deliveries across seven states and Mexico. And that is a conservative estimate, they warn. New numbers will soon be added, altering the equation. The basin is drying out as the planet warms.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. We spent years fighting for much-needed legislation to strengthen Canada’s environmental laws and fix the broken project review process. That’s why we’re in court defending this law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Perhaps less obvious is the importance of state and local governments in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Source: CCST 2020. Source: YouTube.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7 and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.” Find all the work here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In southwest Africa, an ongoing investigation by National Geographic found that a Canadian oil and gas exploration company has consistently violated environmental laws. It’s in a conservation zone that borders the Okavango River. It aims to conserve an additional 1 million acre-feet of water in Lake Mead over the next two years.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. Last year, South Korea strengthened its renewable portfolio standard to 25% renewables by 2034 The government hopes to reduce electricity consumption 14% by 2030. and Australia.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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