Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As governments in California and across the United States wrestle with how to address soaring housing costs, a significant flashpoint has been the issue of local control. Most land-use regulation in the United States is done by local governments: cities, counties, towns, villages.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The emergence of these two substantial new electric loads is unprecedented, and policymakers must address this dual … Continue reading Turning Data Centers into Grid and Regional Assets: Considerations and Recommendations for the Federal Government, State Policymakers, and Utility Regulators

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

On 5 February 2024, the European Parliament and Council of the EU announced that they had reached a provisional political agreement on the text of the ESG Ratings Regulation (the Regulation). The agreed text was subsequently published on 14 February 2024. Refer to this Latham blog post for previous commentary on the proposal.

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Law and Environment

JULY 12, 2021

My concern here is the extent to which we in the United States are making policy intended to address climate change – which is not even a national problem, but a global problem – at a broad range of levels of government. Moreover, all of these moves were based on the exercise of traditional police powers by local governments.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Yesterday, Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer issued a report detailing how “to implement the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing the climate crisis.” The post New Report Details Massachusetts Whole-of-Government Approach to Climate Crisis first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Environmental Defence, Équiterre, Ecology Action Centre and the David Suzuki Foundation are responding with a joint statement welcoming the regulations as a strong step towards reducing emissions and the cost of living for Canadians. . We need the government to commit to finalizing this reg in the next six months.

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Scientific American

JUNE 25, 2024

The Supreme Court is considering the fate of Chevron deference, a 40-year legal principle that has shaped the role of government agencies. The outcome could affect medication approval, pollution regulation, and more

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Even if the resolution is adopted, it would not be binding in the same way as a formal international agreement, but it could still impact how countries regulate marine CDR. seaweed) for carbon storage.

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National Law Center

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2023, lawsuits were filed against state governments in Indiana, Arkansas, Virginia, and Alaska alleging that state hemp laws and regulations. The post Legal Challenges to State Hemp Laws and Regulations appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2024

Briefly, the Sheetz case arose out of El Dorado County’s 2004 adoption of a new General Plan to govern the county’s land use planning and to manage the county’s future growth. A key provision of the General Plan requires that those proposing new development projects in the county–- housing subdivisions, commercial projects, etc.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. Voters in parts of Cochise and Graham counties will decide whether to join the state’s more populated districts and regulate groundwater extraction. Local Regulation. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In August, the California Air Resources Board finalized regulations that will phase out the sale of new internal combustion engine automobiles by 2035. The regulations (known as Advanced Clean Cars II) deliver on a commitment Governor Newsom made in a 2020 executive order and build on decades of emissions reduction programs from CARB.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2021

Supreme Court today held unconstitutional a longstanding California regulation allowing labor unions intermittent access to agricultural workplaces for labor organizing purposes. Briefly, Cedar Point Nursery involves an agricultural industry challenge to a regulation enacted by California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. The Alberta Energy Regulator has shown us over and over that it is willfully neglecting to keep us safe from toxic waste and pollution. One of the incidents spilled 5.3 million litres of industrial waste.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 8, 2024

Instead of informing downstream communities, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) helped Imperial cover up the spill for over nine months. Shockingly, this was the first time local Indigenous nations, the federal government and the public were informed about the leak! Where rules do exist, they aren’t enforced.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

On October 7, the Ohio River Valley Institute released the results of a new poll which found 90% of Pennsylvania voters support stricter regulations on the fracking industry, according to the poll conducted by Upswing Research for the Ohio River Valley Institute. Click Here for poll results narrative. Click Here for presentation slides.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. State regulations have strict inducements, so the degree to which EPA aligns with such parameters is important. Limits on mal-maintenance/tampering.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Montréal/Tiohtià:ke | Traditional, unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation, a gathering place for many First Nations, including the Anishinaabeg – We are disappointed that the Government of Alberta is attacking the federal government’s attempts to clamp down on greenwashing.

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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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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. But the water crisis is global, and it can be solved only with transformational thinking and new governance. Women in Rajasthan, a state in northern India, gather water.

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National Law Center

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On Monday, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (“AMS”) released a proposed rule governing competition in the livestock and poultry industries. The post Proposed Regulation: Competition and Market Integrity appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The proposed changes demonstrate the Government of Ontario’s persistence in prioritizing harmful projects over protection of even the very rarest of species and ecosystems. The MECP’s proposal makes clear that the Ontario government cares little about the unpayable costs of biodiversity loss.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As the health consequences of vaping emerge from the fog, governments across the world are regulating e-cigarettes in different ways – and it won’t take long to see which works best

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Recent polling demonstrates that the public wants action on sustainable finance — financial activities that take into account social, environmental, and governance factors. The desire for mandatory regulations is driven by skepticism that financial institutions would respect voluntary regulations.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yesterday, the Biden announced a new Sustainable Products and Services procurement rule, which requires federal government buyers to prioritize sustainable products and services, and expands the categories of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ecolabel standards for federal purchasing to a series of new sectors.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

As state governments begin to grapple with the serious impacts of climate change on a range of local industries and economic actors, it will be vital for leaders and investors to have access to comparable, high-quality risk disclosure. Download as PDF.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We got some bad news this month: a federal court judge ruled in favour of Big Plastic’s self-serving arguments and against the government’s approach to regulating plastic pollution. But what does this mean for regulating plastics in Canada? Are single-use plastics still being banned in Canada? Well, it’s a bit complicated.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 20, 2023

The David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence, Wilderness Committee, Ecojustice, Friends of the Earth and Prevent Cancer Now say the changes announced today are a positive first step towards more robust regulation of pesticides. It’s long past time to end the overuse of under-regulated pest products.”

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 27, 2023

“Government enforcement is increasing across the globe.” ” Since the return to in-person work, we’ve seen governments around the world increase their resources and focus on fraud enforcement. Is your company protected?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

First, lawyers work at all levels of government on environmental matters. They help write regulations, bring lawsuits, and ensure that governments themselves comply with environmental laws. But lawyers doing environmental work are scattered across the federal government. And not just the federal government.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 12, 2022

The government finally posted draft regulations to ban six single-use plastics over the holidays. As written, the regulations wouldn’t rid Canada of the harmful products until sometime in 2024 at the earliest, an absurd timeline that undermines the government’s own promises to reign in plastic pollution.

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