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The “Silver Bullet” Required to Improve California’s Water Rights System: More & Better Data

Legal Planet

Without such data, state and federal water regulators can’t administer and enforce water rights systems effectively and on a timely basis. Berkeley researchers Ted Grantham and Lucy Andrews, scholars at the campus’ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management.

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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. Launching weather balloons is a very lightly regulated activity, pursued by hobbyists and citizen scientists in many countries. Relevant FAA regulations here , FCC regulations here , with a clear summary from a citizen-science NGO here ).

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

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California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET. Pavelsky, a professor in the department of earth, marine, and environmental sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is giddy about the mission and the knowledge it will generate.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal.

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Nanoplastics should be included in existing regulatory frameworks

Environmental News Bits

In a viewpoint article published in Environmental Science & Technology yesterday, researchers address regulatory concerns related to intentionally produced nanoplastics and outline how the inclusion of the three above-mentioned policy and legislative processes could impact the future regulation of nanoplastics.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

That the state official who oversees the permitting and regulation of all major energy projects in Montana could be ignorant of the UN body that has been issuing increasingly urgent assessments about global warming and climate data for 30 years is unbelievable and distressing. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

Specifically, the justices concluded that Measure Z “contradicts–and thus is preempted by” a nearly century-old system of oil and gas regulation of California’s oil and gas industry administered by state regulators.

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