Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The problem is that focusing on the challenges of litigation risks overlooking the second RoN strategy, one that may prove much more important in the USA over time — RoN through Governance. Instead, national legislation has created a governance structure for a forest, river, and lagoon. But, even here, the challenge remains.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In Facilitating Equity-Oriented Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Investments , we examine three process strategies that governments and community stakeholders can employ to design equity-oriented EV infrastructure investments, including community oversight councils, participatory budgeting, and Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs).

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Real Climate

MARCH 12, 2025

The youngest employees are the future of any organization, government or otherwise, and bring with them unique energy, skills, and ideas. Every government organization should strive to become more efficient, and must be subjected to careful oversight, since taxpayer funding is precious and entrusted to the government by the people.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

Academics, civil society, and government officials were divided into groups focusing on science, health, labor, and the built environment. Even if there is government relief, it can take three to four months to come in, but a member needs immediate funds to get back on her feet and restart her livelihood.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Globally, the circulation of the atmosphere, which governs where weather patterns set up, would change in intensity. The scientists call on the leaders of these countries to use their international standing to push world governments to take drastic steps to cut the release of heat-trapping emissions and stay close to the 1.5-degree

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Statement by Tim Gray, Executive Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat Ontarians are being let down by the federal governments decision to not put back in place a federal impact assessment for Highway 413. That order is due on January 25th, 2025.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2035 target sets a marker to guide the next decade of climate action for all levels of government, industry, and Canadians. This new target represents a failure on the part of the Government of Canada to see that Canada does its global fair share. Provincial governments share the blame.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The global community expects this type of authoritative scientific assessment on global existential threats from its international bodies; an example is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was created to provide governments and the public with regular scientific assessments on climate change, risks posed, and solutions.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

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Yale E360

APRIL 9, 2025

With the dam now up for relicensing, they are urging the government to consider their own flow-release plan, which aims to restore the rivers health. Indigenous communities that rely on the natural flow of the Xingu River have long fought the Belo Monte dam in northern Brazil. Read more on E360

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Last year, following Environmental Defence’s initial reporting of these numbers, the Government of Canada had clarified that the fossil fuel lobbyists were included in Alberta’s list of delegates, which the federal government has no control over. We have yet to receive a similar clarification this year.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Three years after Ontarios government committed to building more homes faster, the number of homes built in Ontario is dramatically down and government sources show that without radical change fewer than half of the 1.5 Why not just get government out of the way by cutting taxes, fees, and red-tape for all new housing?

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New Scientist

APRIL 25, 2025

The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, even as misleading information runs rampant on social media

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2025

Missing from the conversation is the fact that the project would threaten the water of tens of thousands of Albertans, including farmers, yet the Alberta government has refused to conduct an environmental assessment. Yet the Government of Alberta refused to conduct an environmental assessment of the massive Pathways hub last year.

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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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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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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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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2024

An assessment would have given decision-makers and the public a chance to better understand how this project would impact the climate, environment, and Indigenous rights before the government had to make a final decision on whether or not it could go ahead.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Given that you’ll regularly find kids chewing on a mitten or a coat collar, these types of PFAS exposures require immediate attention and action—action from the companies that make these products and from the federal government that should be setting stronger rules to protect us. People in Canada need federal leadership on PFAS.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2025

At its core, the ongoing Greenbelt scandal is about the government stripping away permanent protection from Greenbelt land at the request of sprawl developers, all while falsely representing the removals (and other opening of farmland, forests and wetlands to sprawl) as part of a strategy to increase housing supply.

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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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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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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

APRIL 8, 2025

New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. open-source data platforms and international collaborations will be essential in making integrated satellite monitoring a truly global tool for environmental governance.

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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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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Accountability: The process forces governments to report back on their progress against their “Nationally Determined Contributions”, which are their domestic plans to reduce emissions. And that’s why Canadian civil society groups like Environmental Defence go there: to hold Canadian government representatives accountable!

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Ontario government is trying to recklessly push forward with Highway 413 in a way that harms species at risk and considers Indigenous consultation an afterthought.” These new records further validate long held concerns about this highway,” said Tim Gray, executive director at Environmental Defence.

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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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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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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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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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