Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2021

CARLA relied on the state’s Housing Accountability Act (HAA), which limits the ability of a local government to reject housing projects that are consistent with the local government’s zoning rules. Instead, I want to discuss the question of whether the state can even constrain local government regulation of land-use in California.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. Getting enough money from the state and federal governments to help maintain city services has become a struggle for many Michigan municipalities. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

3] In the future, the Commission can introduce further repairability requirements for new products through the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. 2] Provisional agreement on the text of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation was reached by the EU Parliament and Council in December 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-level ozone that form soot and smog, and metals like lead in paint and drinking water, are regulated by the EPA to keep us safe. Alarmingly, the notion of scientific integrity itself, which people from all political affiliations should support, is also under fire.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

F]ull implementation will likely result in ten-fold increase in political hires. Political loyalists would take their place. As the Paper states: The Heritage Foundation’s Schedule F proposal would change the current system dramatically. This transition poses both legal and logistical challenges.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching implications for economic, social, and political stability.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 9, 2023

As news feeds overflow with videos of raw sewage gushing into UK rivers, the government here needs to step up with tougher regulation and more joined-up thinking

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2024

California regulators had an opportunity this year to be a global leader on requiring airplanes to use low-carbon jet fuel. But that is the whole point of this market-based program: regulated entities can either reduce the carbon in their products or pay someone else to do it. And in that absence, California has leeway to regulate.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 17, 2023

Late in the federal court hearings last week, in their lawsuit against plastics regulations , Big Plastic’s arguments went completely off the rails. The government doesn’t actually know how many turtles we’ve killed with our plastic, and what that number represents of the total number of turtles in the world. We’ve seen the pictures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions. These government efforts highlight Germany’s commitment to not just setting climate goals but also ensuring their practical realization through legal means.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Their omnipresent influence on national politics and international negotiations has trapped consumers in a fossil fuel-dependent system and threatens to delay climate action even further, with the most severe consequences for those already in the most vulnerable situations. What is an advisory opinion?

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

TAKE ACTION: Tell the Alberta government it’s time to turn the power back on for Alberta’s clean energy future! The Alberta government is opposing any meaningful policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that the federal government is attempting to implement. So, let’s take a crack at connecting these dots.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Its mission is to investigate state government operations and policy and, through reports and legislative proposals, make recommendations to the Governor and Legislature “to promote economy, efficiency and improved service in state operations.” CEQA imposes key responsibilities on all three branches of state government.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

But it’s rare indeed when such water rights violations are prosecuted criminally, especially by the United States government. That’s true for two reasons: first, the federal government plays only a modest role when it comes to administering and enforcing water rights laws. That’s because across the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

In much of the country, those wholesale transactions are under the control of regional transmission organizations established by federal power regulators, but that’s not true everywhere. In those states where rates are regulated, regulators can do some things to shift these incentives.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2024

The report finds that oil and gas companies and industry associations try to influence the government through persistent lobbying. In 2023, they had at least 1,255 lobby meetings with the federal government, which is the equivalent of meeting nearly five times per workday.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year, the California Legislature enacted SB 9 , which required local governments to allow duplexes (and with ADUs, sometimes triplexes and quadraplexes) in single-family zones. But localities can deal with their own regulations.). As former Secretary of State George Shultz said of American politics: It’s Never Over.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 19, 2023

But government regulators with ties to offshore wind developers are downplaying the danger to the marine ecosystem and fishermen’s livelihoods. Read the full story from ProPublica. Turbines the height of 70-story skyscrapers will soon tower over East Coast fishing grounds.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2023, they had at least 1,255 lobby meetings with the federal government. Some of the key takeaways from the report include: Fossil fuel companies and their main industry associations had at least 1,255 meetings with the federal government in 2023. That means Big Oil lobbied Parliament nearly five times per working day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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. And yes, they really were that hyperbolic.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2024

The plan is already being challenged in court by the expected mix of outer-borough and neighboring state representatives who call the plan an unfair tax on commuters and right-wing groups that oppose regulation and transit in equal measure. It is a monumental step, regardless of the outcome of these cases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines. State government roles, economic considerations, and local interests all must be recognized.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

That means virtually every regulation on private action intended to serve the public good will be delayed, delayed, and delayed. Aside from the political consequences, if a president and their appointees are immune from consequences for inappropriate, even illegal, meddling in agency actions has any accountability gone by the board?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

and EU regulations on methane emissions strengthen calls for a binding international agreement to curb the climate pollution.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs? Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So too have the overpumped groundwater aquifers in California’s San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys that belatedly prompted state political leaders to enact California’s first-ever groundwater regulatory program in 2014. aquifers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At a time when we are experiencing increased reliance on and benefits from advancements in science, alongside the need to regulate emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence , we need STEM students and professionals to be politically engaged.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This means that the Impact Assessment Act can easily be amended to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision without undermining the federal government’s ability to move forward with a full and thorough impact assessment of Highway 413. We call on Minister Stephen Guilbeault and all federal MPs to deliver an urgent legislative fix.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2024

Siting and zoning considerations will also be discussed, along with common concerns for landowners and local governments. They have had the opportunity to provide training for industry, elected officials, businesses, investors, regulators, and landowners and have been able to speak throughout the country and around the world.

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