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

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

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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

Government dysfunction has multiplied drought risks. Water levels behind Impofu Dam — which forms the second-largest reservoir in Nelson Mandela Bay district — dropped too low for extraction on June 13, according to data released by the local government. The national government has taken over in a last-minute bid to avert disaster.

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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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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Growing scrutiny from responsible business practices from shareholders, regulators and other stakeholders is driving a boom in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. The post Integrate Your Supply Chain to Meet ESG Objectives appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2021

Federal government declares, for the first time, a Tier 1 shortage due to low water at Lake Mead. The federal government acknowledged changing conditions in the drying American Southwest on Monday, declaring a Tier 1 shortage for the lower Colorado River basin. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Yale E360

MARCH 22, 2022

But fear of the country’s authoritarian government has silenced the project’s critics. A massive hydroelectric dam under construction in Tanzania threatens to flood part of a famed game reserve and deprive villages and mangrove forests of the water they depend on, experts warn. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2023

On Thursday, March 2, 2023, California’s principal energy agencies – the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) – held a first-of-its-kind, joint en banc hearing at Cal Poly Humboldt with Tribal government leaders and all 10 commissioners of the CEC and CPUC.

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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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

New Jersey has formed a commission to create recommendations for solar panel recycling, and North Carolina directed their Department of Environmental Quality to adopt rules for governing panels’ end-of-life management in utility-scale projects. The federal government has a role to play, too. The US could create similar rules here.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. But because the trend lines do not look promising, government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. It is trying to reach people who might be leery of government intervention.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

Since acquiring Golder Associates, WSP has been able to take advantage of increasing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) trends and achieve exceptional strategic growth to fulfill the rising need for environmental services and sustainably sound infrastructure development.

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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2021

Having built over 30 houses in the past few decades, the notices said, the Mah Meri had illegally infringed upon government land. The eviction notices arrived in late April, and gave families 30 days to move out, Mongabay reports. If found guilty, the residents would be subject to a five-year jail term or $118,000 fine, or both.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2022

European Union governments and lawmakers reached a deal Sunday about key elements of the 27-nation bloc’s green deal, reforming the EU’s trading system for greenhouse gas emissions. The post EU Reforms Elements of the Green Deal appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 10, 2024

He did so without ever notifying federal officials of those diversions, much less paying the federal government for the millions of dollars worth of water Falaschi ordered stolen from the CVP. for sports and concert tickets, private slot machines, etc. At that point, Falaschi resigned from his position as general manager of the District.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2023

State government units. Moreover, agencies can apparently give greater responsibility to local government units (which aren’t covered by subsection (G)) and to state governments for actions that are federally regulated but not federally funded. This seemingly simple language will not be quite so simple to implement.

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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. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 2, 2023

Allegiant Travel Company has released its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report that details the company's efforts to reduce its climate impact and enhance the communities where employees live and work. The post Allegiant Teams with Schneider Electric to Tackle ESG Goals appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

Probably the more serious barrier to adaptation is that Nigeria has what is politely referred to as a governance problem. US AID is pretty blunt about this: “There are roadblocks to a strong democracy in Nigeria at all levels of government. If that continues, it will be hard-pressed to find the resources to adapt to climate change.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 4, 2023

With billions of dollars in government funding becoming widely available to scale renewables and climate tech solutions, the American energy and utility market will undergo extreme changes for years to come.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

There’s no logical connection between a belief in authoritarian government, upholding traditional hierarchies, and views about protecting the environment or the reality of climate change. The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Residents of Pir Koh staged several protests last week, demanding that the government declare a national emergency and fix the town’s ailing infrastructure. “We Water shortages forced residents to turn to cholera-contaminated ponds for drinking water, health officials say. It needs immediate action to prevent crop, livestock losses.

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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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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Now, the new Brazilian government is confronting a health crisis and moving to evict the miners. The onslaught of illegal miners into Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon has destroyed forest, polluted rivers, and brought disease and malnutrition to the Yanomami people. Read more on E360 →

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Source: Olamide Martins Ogunlade The conference brought together representatives from local communities, grassroots leaders, civil society organizations, government officials, women’s groups, youth movements, environmental advocates, and international allies, toward the goals of advancing a just energy transition and building climate resilience.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It galvanized the environmental movement and it pushed the federal government and Congress to carry out scientific research on pesticide contamination and to act on that research. Carson also explicitly called out the hypocrisy inherent in government agencies at the time.

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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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Yale E360

AUGUST 28, 2023

Critics are concerned the deals will not benefit Africans and will just help foreign governments perpetuate high emissions. A company established by a Dubai sheikh is finalizing agreements with African nations to manage vast tracts of their forests and sell the carbon credits. Read more on E360 →

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 29, 2023

Up to 60 grant awards are open to states, territories, Tribal governments, municipalities and eligible nonprofit recipients, as well as coalitions led by an eligible lead applicant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

So, what do we do to protect science-based government decisionmaking processes from political interference at the state level? Decisions by state governments impact the health and safety of all their residents so we should push them to use the best available science and not politicize it. Our report offers many recommendations.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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