Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If Photographs by J.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2025

It makes utilities, like state government, liable for taking or damaging private property. If youre wondering about the terminology, condemnation takes place where the government sures to take property; inverse condemnation is when landowners sue because the government has already taken the property.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

EPA isn’t a college and doesn’t regulate with the goal of increasing diversity. Under current law, if a regulation refers to race in any way, the government must show that the regulation is narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest. This is a very difficult standard to meet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We at the UCS Center for Science and Democracy work to make sure that government decisions are informed by the best possible science and evidence, free from political interference, and responsive to diverse community voices. You can find more information about the process of submitting public comments here.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Municipal drinking water failures like the crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, are also threats to government legitimacy. Teodoro, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Circle of Blue that tap water in the United States is the “most intimate relationship between a government and its people.”

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

Treaty 6 Territory | Edmonton – After two years of tireless work by Indigenous communities, environmental organizations, and the public demanding governments hold Imperial Oil accountable for its egregious behaviour, the AER has finally laid charges against the company. Background: The Imperial Oil tailings disaster allowed 5.3

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But what makes the case important is the courts use of hard look judicial review, which environmentalists have often used to attack bad regulations. It helped create the framework for regulating pesticides and upheld the use of a precautionary approach rather than requiring EPA to have definitive evidence. v.EPA (1975). EPA (2012 ).

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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

MAY 9, 2022

Continual reform is necessary so that emissions trading systems do not become merely symbolic regulation, or even worse create harmful negative consequences for climate policy – by for example subsidizing fossil fuel use or preempting useful complementary regulations. Implications for China. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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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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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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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. The report is intended to help policymakers harness satellite data to improve their climate policies, enforce emissions regulations, and accelerate methane reduction efforts.

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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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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sabin Center has previously discussed the regulation of OAE here and here. A new Sabin Center report continues the conversation by focusing on the regulation of OAE in Washington State. OAE projects conducted in near-shore areas off the Washington coast may be subject to regulation at the federal, state, tribal and local levels.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

But the federal government in the United States has failed to address it so far. Aviation is a significant and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. Opponents will undoubtedly argue that such state-based initiatives conflict with federal law.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

This may seem like a setback for climate progress in Canada, but it simply underscores the limits of voluntary initiatives and the need for the government to enforce climate-aligned financial regulations. Surely, according to their own logic, their withdrawal from this alliance indicates that it is the perfect time for regulation?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board. Yet would anyone say that the government should therefore ignore the risk of a lab accident. Other agencies may have jurisdiction over disease control.

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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. If a policy isnt finalized before March 24th, its unlikely to ever be. Time is ticking!

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Joshua Kail (R-Beaver) said he thought it was outrageous DEP has a process where any citizen can petition the agency for a change in its regulations. EQB regulations at 25 Pa. Any regulation would still have to follow the regulatory process. Kail-- So we would have to approve this regulation, this rule that would go into effect?

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels. The ADF&G regulates seaweed cultivation, providing aquatic farm operation permits. for human consumption).

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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. Coverage of agency regulations. Content of the agency regulations.

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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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Huntington Beach: No Middle-Class Please After patiently requesting, begging, insisting, pleading, and incentivizing local governments to plan for more affordable housing, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, armed with new powers from the state legislature, has had enough.

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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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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Klein Chair, who has long studied public utility regulation, electricity market design, and renewable energy finance. I’m excited to work alongside Emmett Institute faculty like William Boyd, faculty co-director and Michael J.

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 11, 2022

A new report says carbon capture and storage will keep growing, especially with a focus on heavy industries and government regulations. The post Heavy Industries Help Drive Steady Carbon Capture Market Growth appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s the government’s job to protect us and the environment from harmful chemicals in plastic…and they need to get on it While the plastics industry claims its products are sanitary and safe, the truth is much more complicated. Governments around the world, including in Canada, are caught up in the powerful plastics industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is presently no federal law or regulation regarding residential or utility-scale solar panel reuse or end-of-life management. Meanwhile, a California law reclassified PV modules as “universal waste” as opposed to “hazardous waste,” which involves less stringent handling regulations. Use regulation to increase solar panel reuse.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the Paper states: The Heritage Foundation’s Schedule F proposal would change the current system dramatically.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

Joining The Meeting The meeting will be held in Room 60 East Wing starting at 10:00 a.m.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

What public participation requirements that do apply came either from other statutes that might apply to an agency action such as the Administrative Procedure Act or from the regulations implementing NEPA by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Public participation is not an unalloyed good, however.

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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. When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Thats why I believe the Climate Accountability Act is a critical step for Wisconsin, especially given all the ways the federal government is trying to move us backward on addressing climate change. the federal government is trying to move us backwards on addressing climate change. Madison is our home.

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