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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Prior to that decision, oil industry plaintiffs had already sued Los Angeles’ oil production phase-out ordinance; in early September, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kin held that ordinance was preempted by state law as well. Coalition, Communities for a Better Environment, and others who have advocated for tighter restrictions on drilling.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

The post New California Laws Ban Sale of Textiles, Cosmetics Containing PFAS appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The legislation outlaws offering products with the chemicals by 2025.

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MARCH 17, 2022

Paddy Meets Modern Environmental Law appeared first on Legal Planet. We invite you to meet with us within the next week in order to discuss possible remedies for your actions. Failure to do so may result in serious criminal or civil penalties. Your truly, Minister Eamon Ryan. Download as PDF. The post St.

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MAY 1, 2024

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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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

In preparing to teach a course on climate law, I was really struck by how broad and rich the field has become. Back in the day, it was nearly all international law, but nowadays there’s a huge amount of U.S. domestic law. and international law. and international law. climate policy. Here goes: I. Cross-cutting A.

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MAY 18, 2023

New York has enacted what may be the country’s most stringent environmental justice law. The law is so broadly worded, however, that it may have the potential to prevent economic development that would aid those communities, or even new facilities like hospitals that are urgently needed by the community.

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MAY 19, 2023

Monterey County Oil Field (credit: Monterey County Weekly) For the first two decades of this century, and under the able leadership of former Chief Justices Ronald George and Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the California Supreme Court was quite active in interpreting and shaping California environmental law. Well, break’s over.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Countries that rely too heavily on carbon removal in their climate plans could violate international law, warns a new paper. Read more on E360 →

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EU battery law seeks to increase circularity through a plethora of measures that the US can replicate. The law also requires the increased sharing of information about the battery type and use, making repurposing and recycling more efficient. Essentially, it is decoupling economic activity from resource extraction.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The symbols and mathematical operations used in the laws of physics follow a pattern that could reveal something fundamental about the universe

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Daniele Oriti’s pursuit of a theory of quantum gravity has led him to the startling conclusion that the laws of nature don’t exist independently of us – a perspective shift that could yield fresh breakthroughs

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

In June 2024, UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute Europe hosted its first inaugural conference, The Promise of International Law in the Face of Ecological Crises , shortly after the issuance of a highly anticipated advisory opinion from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

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AUGUST 31, 2023

That means a lot of energy law profs to teach them — many more than we have today. Law schools are waking up to the need to hire in the area. So if you’re thinking of law teaching, it could be worthwhile to dive into this field. About 10% were in the broad area of environmental law, but that was still only 11 people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2024

In a historic development, a recent opinion by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) recognizes global warming emissions as a marine pollutant. Moving forward, nations must begin to incorporate the directives from this decision into their own national laws and regulations.

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JULY 8, 2024

The principle states that, when the language of a law is ambiguous, experts at federal agencies can interpret it to create rules to implement and enforce the law. In SEC v Jarkesy, a 6-3 majority undermined federal agencies’ ability to enforce laws by issuing fines to individuals or organizations that break those laws.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

The root of the problem is the way different parts of California law fit together. There’s a definition of fish elsewhere in that law that sweeps pretty broadly. There’s a complicated history of disputes about whether invertebrates are protected by California law. The CESA is part of the Fish and Game Code.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This guidance has been solicited from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Interamerican Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), and International Court of Justice (ICJ). Advisory opinions provide a court or judge’s interpretation of a law, and are delivered in response to a question from an official, agency, or government.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Davis Law Review will host a most timely conference examining an environmental crisis facing many of the American West’s iconic “terminal lakes.” Davis School of Law (a.k.a. Davis Law Review organizers at ucd.lawrev.symp@gmail.com. ” That term refers to lakes that have no natural outlet. salt content).

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AUGUST 21, 2024

A decade ago, California stood out–and not in a good way–as the only Western state without comprehensive state laws monitoring and regulating groundwater pumping and use. In the fall of 2014, the Legislature enacted and Governor Brown signed into law the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2024

During the sessions, Robert Volterra, a representative for Barbados and an expert in international law, argued persuasively that states contributing to climate change owe compensation to those that suffer its adverse effects disproportionately.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. the EPA or FDA), staffed with experts, to interpret and implement laws within their purview effectively.

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MAY 8, 2024

Wells Environmental Law Clinic , I had the opportunity to support advocacy by the nonprofit Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) to help ensure that the Working Group consider and recommend robust protections for mobile home dwellers as part of its work. Candidate at UCLA Law (2025) specializing in environmental law.

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MAY 16, 2023

In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. This March, Australia adopted a follow-up law to implement these targets. The law built on the Safeguard Mechanisms. This seems like Trumpian hyperbole.

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JULY 27, 2023

The statutory provision upholding the pipeline was part of the 2023 debt ceiling law. Although I’m sympathetic to their arguments, in the end I think the law is clearly against them. The most debatable part of the 2023 law eliminated the jurisdiction of the courts to hear any challenge to the MVP. It was terrible public policy.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Once enacted by the Governor, these two bills will set a new national standard for greenhouse gas emissions reporting and for disclosure of climate-related financial risks consistent with the framework established by the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

The Vanuatu-led effort, which was initiated several years ago by law students at the University of the South Pacific, is now coming to fruition. If successful, the vote will invite the ICJ to issue an advisory opinion to clarify how existing international laws can be applied to strengthen action on climate change.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

This critical legislation was originally expected to be signed into law by the fall of 2023, but a chaotic schedule—and an often dysfunctional Congress—got in the way. One of these was for Congress to codify, or permanently authorize in law, the national network of climate hubs, and to provide $50 million in annual funding for them.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. That the firm’s activity is probably not breaking any laws is closely related to its tiny scale. Multiple domestic laws and international treaties are “relevant” to the activity, but it does not fall under their specific concrete controls.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

Streamgaging Network (credit: USGS.gov) Recently I’ve posted stories about efforts to enforce California’s water laws in the face of efforts by some diverters to evade and ignore limits on their ability to privatize public water resources–especially in times of critical drought.

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Yale E360

MARCH 28, 2023

EU countries have approved an end to the sale of gas-powered cars in 2035, allowing the law to enter into force. Read more on E360 →

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. The law authorized the creation of new transmission to serve “renewable energy zones” and a process to identify and select such zones. Nevada adopted a law called SB 448 in 2021, directing utilities to build transmission that meets state goals.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 20, 2023

We seem to be dealing with opinions rather than statements that are provably false, so libel law shouldn’t apply in the first place. In fact, one of the useful things I teach is libel law. The industry’s lawyers might have avoided filing such a defective case if they had only taken my class as beginning law students.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. As one example , the successful populist leader in the Netherlands “said that climate action was an ‘unaffordable madness’ and that – once in office – the party would put the national climate law and the Paris Agreement ‘straight through the shredder.’”

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APRIL 10, 2024

This victory sets a precedent for future climate litigation, affirming that climate action is a legal duty of states under human rights law. At the Science Hub for Climate Litigation , we stand at the nexus of science and the law. C, a threshold beyond which the dangers to humanity grow sharply.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. Reports informing decisions Minnesota passed a cumulative impacts law in 2008 that implemented a method that required facilities to include a report on potential health impacts when applying for a permit.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

The series will dive into the material, financial, and equity concerns prompting the law, the practical design challenges for its implementation, and the ideological divisions between its supporters and critics. The Legislature’s stated intent in shifting a portion of rates from volumetric charges (i.e., So, who will pay how much?

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