Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. This blog post discusses Local Law 154, unpacks Judge Abrams decision, and ends with a refresher on California Restaurant Association v.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For years, we have worked with partners to improve water quality, fish passage, and resilient infrastructure ensuring a healthy future for all, said Heather Taylor-Miesle, Senior Vice President, Conservation, American Rivers. The Allegheny and Monongahela river watersheds in Western Pennsylvania are the headwaters of the Ohio River.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Shell Falcon Pipeline will pay $300,000 in penalties-- a $25,000 fine to the Department and $275,000 to the Independence Conservancy to support environmental restoration efforts. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By Liu Lican On November 8, China issued its first Energy Law , which aims to support the development and utilisation of renewable energy and increase the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption. However, the law also states that there will be “rational development and clean and efficient use” of fossil fuels.

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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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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Published: Volume 26, Issue 1 of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law By VJEL November 18, 2024 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 26, Issue 1. California leads in both environmental and cannabis law. Conservation Gerrymandering By Avery E.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. the EPA or FDA), staffed with experts, to interpret and implement laws within their purview effectively.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. By late 2021, after a decade of conservatives control of the executive branch, Australia was ranked last of sixty countries in terms of climate policy, below countries such as Saudia Arabia and Kazakhstan.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A: A few laws explicitly require cost-benefit analysis or at least something along those lines. Those laws are a minority. There are a few laws that actually prohibit agencies from considering costs, but agencies do cost-benefit analysis when implementing those laws for informational purposes.

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National Law Center

APRIL 16, 2024

The post FWS Streamline ESA Voluntary Conservation Programs appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) have issued a final rule to update the implementing regulations for Section 10.

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National Law Center

JULY 30, 2024

The post Farm Bill 2024: Themes in the Proposed Conservation Titles appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The Farm Bill is an omnibus bill enacted approximately every five years that authorizes and funds most programs administered by the.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resources Committee [ PDF of Article ] -- PennLive Letter: Where Did $100 Million In State Conservation Funds Go? - Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

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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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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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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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SPR Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

These regulations implement amendments that the New York State Legislature enacted in 2022 to Article 24 of the Environmental Conservation Law (ECL)the States Freshwater Wetlands Act… The post NYSDEC Issues Final Revised Freshwater Wetlands Regulations appeared first on Sive Paget & Riesel PC.

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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. The government’s choice to enshrine in law a prioritization of nuclear power is also troubling.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 20, 2023

We seem to be dealing with opinions rather than statements that are provably false, so libel law shouldn’t apply in the first place. In fact, one of the useful things I teach is libel law. The industry’s lawyers might have avoided filing such a defective case if they had only taken my class as beginning law students.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

This critical legislation was originally expected to be signed into law by the fall of 2023, but a chaotic schedule—and an often dysfunctional Congress—got in the way. From conservation to nutrition to crop insurance, this mammoth legislation covers a lot of ground. There’s no time to waste.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 17, 2023

Lands and easements taken or acquired for such purposes shall not be used for other purposes or otherwise disposed of except by laws enacted by a two thirds vote, taken by yeas and nays, of each branch of the general court. The PLPA turns much of the EEA’s draft policy into law and adds more procedure and substance.

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SPR Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

On January 29, 2025, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) announced the release of Draft Amendments to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) regulations, codified at 6 NYCRR Part 617, as well as accompanying proposed revisions to NYSDECs Short and Full Environmental Assessment Forms (EAFs).

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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. It is not hard to see that is the real intent of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Chevron.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2024

Last week, the 9 th Circuit voted against rehearing en banc its decision from last April finding the City of Berkeley’s ban on natural gas connections in new construction to be preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Judge Friedland, joined by seven other judges (and three senior judges!)

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A 2014 California law intended to protect the state's depleted aquifers is going into effect, requiring farms not to pump groundwater faster than it can be replenished. The policy is pushing growers to find new ways to refill the state's depleted aquifers, NPR reports. Read more on E360 ?.

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New Scientist

MARCH 13, 2024

As a new law is introduced in England, requiring developers to create 10 per cent more wildlife habitat than they destroy when developing a site, does it really work to destroy nature in one place, but preserve it elsewhere, asks Graham Lawton

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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 Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday.

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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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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. Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule. That’s not a coincidence.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

The series will dive into the material, financial, and equity concerns prompting the law, the practical design challenges for its implementation, and the ideological divisions between its supporters and critics. The Legislature’s stated intent in shifting a portion of rates from volumetric charges (i.e., So, who will pay how much?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Energy Policy & Conservation Act Following Berkeley’s 2019 gas prohibition ordinance, a trade group representing members “interested in opening a new restaurant or in relocating a restaurant to a new building in Berkeley,” brought suit against the city. Berkeley : Berkeley’s Ordinance Preempted by U.S. Under EPCA, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. But protected areas are themselves under threat from rapid climate change, and conservation planners are urgently working to understand and ameliorate the risks. Photo: UNESCO/David G.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Projects eligible for funding include removing old dams, buying out flood-prone properties, improving water quality, conserving land, restoring wetlands, and planting trees in cities. Before the amendment takes effect, the Legislature must pass laws that define eligible projects.

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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. This wouldn’t impact EPA directly.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The petition alleges the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Governor have failed to protect state forests used by ATVs on more than 300 miles of ATV trails built by DCNR and 2,000+ miles of illegal trails created by riders in Sproul , Susquehannock , Tiadaghton and Tioga State Forests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

The more than 90-page bill did not include a single meaningful mention of environmental justice populations, who the state must, by law, serve and protect. And on that score, the legislature’s latest push leaves a lot to be desired. Unfortunately, the Massachusetts Senate has missed the mark in its just-passed climate and energy bill.

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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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Circle of Blue

JULY 28, 2022

On the higher end, that amount of conservation is one-third of the Colorado’s recent annual flow. In terms of law and management, the Colorado River basin is split in two. But the conservation mandate was derived from the scenario that keeps more water in the reservoirs. Those are astounding figures. Upper/Lower Basin.

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