Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As quick background, the basic driver for a PES approach is that we need much more funding to conserve natural capital than philanthropy and governments can provide. This can happen through stringent government regulation, reputation, private certification, or some combination of these. The need could not be more critical.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 6, 2025

by Allison Stanger, Middlebury The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has secured unprecedented access to at least seven sensitive federal databases, including those of the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration. This access has sparked fears about cybersecurity vulnerabilities and privacy violations.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Government agencies, researchers, and others can provide guidance and educational outreach to help diverters understand measurement and reporting requirements and technical options. Researchers and government agencies can examine similarities and differences in different parties’ data needs and how well available data are meeting those needs.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

million homes by 2031, governments need to eliminate minimum parking requirements, reform building codes and legalize six-storey apartments on the avenues and major streets in existing neighbourhoods throughout Ontario. To deliver 1.5 million new homes the province will need by 2031. The buck stops at Queen’s Park.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These initiatives are designed to empower local governments and communities with the tools and funding necessary to build long-term climate resilience. However, an implementation gap remains between ICARP’s vision for a resilient California and the resources available to achieve the State’s priorities.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

While the Ontario government has unleashed housing sprawl on agricultural lands, including trying to undermine the Greenbelt – it has slammed the door shut on ground-mounted solar in all agricultural lands including Ontarios marginal farmland. Proposing a ban on Chinese components from all future energy purchases in Ontario.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2025

Federal, state, and local governments have the power to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the costs of climate change impacts.And they should. To-date, taxpayers and victims have been footing the bill for worsening wildfires. However, UCSs new analysis quantifies the contribution of fossil fuel companies to fire conditions.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency removed a map of future climate hazards from its website, researchers built their own version

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

Governments representing more than a quarter of the US population have filed lawsuits against major corporations including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP, seeking justice for the harm caused by their lies about the dangers of their products. In short, climate litigation is actively shaping climate action today. (UCS

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

During the Hangzhou plenary, governments had the opportunity to review and adjust the draft outlines developed at earlier expert meetings. This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

It is unlikely that the government will last long once Parliament resumes. At the top of the list of key climate regulations that need to be finalized before March 24th is the governments cap on pollution from the oil and gas industry. The Government of Canada promised the new rules by the end of 2024, but they missed their deadline.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. But this American Dream has come at a steep cost. miles per day ).

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are disappointed to see the Ontario government make unsupported claims about the proposed federal clean electricity regulations. Ontario is going the wrong way when it comes to clean electricity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The danger of stereotyping resides when someone in a position of power, such as a government agent, business person, consultant, academic researcher, or nonprofit administrator, expects a Native person not skilled in environmental areas to offer information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Installations of commercial solarsystems on businesses, schools, and government buildings, for examplewere potentially 13% higher in 2024, per Wood Mackenzie. 2024s growth was led by Texas, Florida, and California. And it included MISO’s approval of massive investments in transmission within its territory.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. It was a surprise that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The facts are quite unusual. Neither of those is in effect today. Thus, the relevance of any ruling to future agency actions is unclear.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The goal: To get governments to commit to a new economic vision that is truly sustainable. As he prepares to host the G20 summit, Brazil’s president is championing initiatives to promote a “bioeconomy” in the Amazon that protects biodiversity and helps Indigenous residents. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

JANUARY 24, 2023

But now the government is clamping down on scientists who are questioning official claims that the country’s endangered orangutan and rhino populations are increasing. Under President Joko Widodo, Indonesia has gained international praise for its conservation policies. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 6, 2022

High-profile initiatives to plant millions of trees are being touted by governments around the world as major contributions to fighting climate change. But scientists say many of these projects are ill-conceived and poorly managed and often fail to grow any forests at all. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

MAY 6, 2024

Is it unconstitutional for the government to build a levee that reduces the risk of urban flooding but diverts the water to nearby farmlands? The answer could be yes, unless the government pays for flood easements on the rural lands. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers are citing the health impacts on downstream villages, but the government has yet to act to stem the widespread use of the highly toxic chemical. A boom in small-scale gold mining in Bolivia has raised concerns about pollution from mercury used in the mining process. Read more on E360 →.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

This verdict is yet another example of the fossil fuel industrys agenda being enacted by multiple levels and branches of government. In todays dollars the total cost to the US government in lost revenue alone would be approximately $222.7 This is more than an outrage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

During the Hangzhou plenary, governments had the opportunity to review and adjust the draft outlines developed at earlier expert meetings. This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To expand and modernize the nation’s electric infrastructure, the federal government recently announced new funding. This continues a 100-year-old tradition of government shaping the electric grid.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

government science itself faces an uncertain future. NOAA scientists and affiliated researchers have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Critically, AB 3233 clarifies and confirms local government authority to regulate, and even prohibit outright, oil and gas operations. In so doing, the law acknowledges the traditional role of local governments in exercising land use controls to protect the public health and safety of their residents.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Not only did the government fail to “engage with key experts to identify the [potential public health] hazards, like flooding”, it failed to look at key information about “natural hazards”. The information packages it used also omitted key information about “infrastructure capacity and servicing ….

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Despite this, there is still great room (and need) for hope – deforestation continues to be a focus of many national and subnational governments across the tropics, with important reductions made over the last several years as I have discussed in a previous post.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Since attorney and activist Tiza Mafira cofounded PlasticDiet Indonesia in 2013, the group has helped more than 100 local governments pass single-use plastic bag bans and is now tackling straws, cutlery, and sachets. Next up: slashing subsidies for petrochemical companies. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The city of Linhares, Brazil, has granted legal personhood to the waves at the mouth of the Dolce River, the first instance in which a government has conferred rights upon part of the ocean. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

JANUARY 8, 2024

Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon was down 50 percent, year on year, in 2023, according to government figures. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

These include: Data collection and data deserts The impact of climate change and infrastructure resilience Jurisdictional overlap and gaps While these issues do not represent the entirety of the challenges and opportunities facing Indian country, I think they highlight the three most common transportation issues across Tribal governments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2015, the Dutch environmental organization Urgenda Foundation with nearly 900 co-plaintiffs took the Dutch government to court. They argued that the government was failing to take sufficient action to combat climate change, which was, in their view, a violation of its duty to protect its citizens’ well-being. In the Leghari v.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Across the GTA, Liberal support would fall from 20 per cent to 11 per cent if the government decides to let Highway 413 proceed without an independent federal impact assessment. There are 29 federally listed species at risk of extinction along the 413 highway corridor, and at least 24 navigable waterways.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon is down 70 percent, year on year, through the first nine months of 2023, the government estimates. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

By denying the reality of climate change, the UCP government ignores one of the main economic drivers for energy transition. Background The UCP Governance and Policy Resolutions for debate can be found at [link] and by clicking on “Resolutions for Debate” For information on the global scientific consensus on climate change, visit [link].

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