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How the ICC is Using International Criminal Law to Prosecute Suspects of Eco Crimes

Legal Planet

One new set of tools that legal experts are proposing we consider are those available under international criminal law. I was part of the UCLA Law student group, along with Hannah Reynolds (J.D. ‘26) 26) and Selina Novak (Doctoral Program in Law Exchange Student Researcher).

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Reflections on a Century of “Regulatory Takings” Law

Legal Planet

Credit: ABA for Law Students. Supreme Court issued a radical constitutional decision that over the last century has proven enormously consequential in a host of environmental, natural resources and public health contexts. One hundred years ago this month, the U.S. In the December 1922 decision Pennsylvania Coal Company v.

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Project 2025 Envisions Eliminating Civil Service Protection for Thousands

Legal Planet

UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” which has received attention in the Presidential election campaign.

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Joliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow?

Inside Climate News

As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution. A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois.

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Early American history and modern American environmental law

Environment, Law, and History

These two institutions shaped the exceptional stringency of 1970s American environmental laws and the powerful backlash against these laws that continues today. American colonies ensured broad private rights to use land and natural resources for profit.

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War and the Environment

Legal Planet

From the contamination of land and the destruction of forests to the plunder of natural resources and the collapse of management systems, the environmental consequences of war are often widespread and devastating.” General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict.

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New Government Information Shows Alberta’s Tailings Ponds Increased in 2020 Despite Decrease in Oil Sands Production

Enviromental Defense

This is despite numerous assurances from industry, and repeated promises from the government of Alberta, that these ponds full of toxic waste from industry operations will be cleaned up. She added, “We can smell the toxins in the air, they’re in our water and have been for years, but no one in government cares.

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