Enviromental Defense
APRIL 22, 2025
Statement by Rebecca Kolarich, Water program manager Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – Its shameful that the Ford government is backpedaling on its promise to protect the Sydenham River and surrounding communities from York1’s proposed Dresden Dump.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). In 2022, the parties agreed to evaluate those four approaches, and how they should be governed. LICG has been meeting regularly to advance governance discussions. seaweed) for carbon storage.
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Legal Planet
APRIL 1, 2025
Academics, civil society, and government officials were divided into groups focusing on science, health, labor, and the built environment. The team held focus groups with its members and, to their surprise, the younger members said that to stay relevant for the next half century SEWA had to focus on environmental protection.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
In what could turn out to be another loss for environmental protection in the Supreme Court, the Court is about to decide a major case about the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations.
Legal Planet
MARCH 3, 2025
These bills are designed to function similarly to the federal Superfund law, which allows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to seek funds retroactively from polluters to clean up contaminated sites. The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) would be the agency tasked with overseeing this effort.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 15, 2023
The “youth citizen” plaintiffs in Held successfully argued that implementation of Montana’s “State Energy Policy Act” causes and contributes to climate change, in violation of the Montana Constitution’s longstanding environmental protection provisions. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v.
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 23, 2025
Nearly 90 per cent of respondents want the federal government to get toxic chemicals out of products, while 86 per cent support federal action on plastic pollution. People in every part of the country recognize the threat that runaway use of unnecessary plastics poses to our health and the environment, and want our government to tackle it.
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