Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

(Klamath River Dam removal project [credit: Los Angeles Times]) Most of the environmental law and policy matters discussed on Legal Planet–especially over the past few months–have dealt with natural resource crises, environmental rollbacks, hostile political actors and actions in Washington, D.C., Download as PDF

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Importantly, a lack of political parties and competition is not news to the American public. At the same time, a second report from the Pew Research Center found that in 2023, nearly 70% of Americans under the age of 50 expressed a desire for more political parties. Without a degree of competition, American democracy teeters.

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Politics Government 2023 Law 329

Circle of Blue

MAY 7, 2025

The basins politics today are perhaps even more fraught. A wet winter in 2023 temporarily pulled the basin out of its tailspin, while up to $4 billion in federal funding for water conservation eased the path to using less.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Through political shifts and economic tides, the organization has stayed the course. Protecting our blue planet isn’t just a matter of politics; it is our duty—to ourselves, to future generations and to the planet we call home. No matter who is in power, we will continue this work with unrelenting determination.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy. This research is suggestive, but my impression is that there is a lot we still don’t know about political psychology. The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Activities include a full day of panels, presentations and speeches from policy experts, municipal leaders, transit stakeholders, transit rider advocates, and representatives from federal political parties, with lunch included. The event will be fully bilingual with simultaneous translation provided. to reserve your spot!

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As scientists rapidly improve their ability to decipher past climate upheaval through ice cores and other "proxies,” historians are re-examining previous political and social turmoil and linking it to volcanic eruptions, prolonged droughts, and other disturbances in the natural world. Read more on E360 ?.

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Politics 364

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What’s needed is “systemic adaptation” that fundamentally changes our economy, our politics, and our priorities in ways that put community and the planet first. Adapting to climate change does not address the societal systems and values that spawned the current crisis. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There are significant political movements aligned around rejecting researching and discussing these interventions, let alone doing them. Modeling and predicting the climate is a lot more feasible than doing the same for the weather. Second, no one is doing anything like these proposed interventions now. Download as PDF

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Climate Change Greenhouse Politics 2008 279

Yale E360

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The challenges are daunting, but the politics will change when the economic benefits are widely felt. The key to shifting away from fossil fuels is for consumers to begin replacing their home appliances, heating systems, and cars with electric versions powered by clean electricity. Read more on E360 ?.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity Politics 353

Scientific American

MAY 14, 2025

The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy

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Politics 111

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Why would a UN-commissioned study be important? As long as countries possess nuclear weapons, nuclear war is a possibility. Nuclear war does not respect national boundaries, and countries not party to the conflict may be affected, potentially catastrophically.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

They introduced a similar bill last session, and the legislation has the public support of more than 170 political scientists who submitted a public letter of support to the House of Representatives. And this public sentiment isnt off base: political scientists agree our democracy is backsliding. According to Reps.

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Politics 2008 2021 Law 307

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While lawmakers of all political stripes have for years said they support mid-rise housing, zoning enacted under the Planning Act still prohibits buildings of five storeys or higher on almost all of Ontario’s existing residential lots. million new homes the province will need by 2031.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The program has been so successful in replacing high carbon petroleum-based fuels with lower emissions vehicle fuels that interest groups from all sides of the political spectrum have come forward to demand radical changes that they argue will fix problems.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

Politics matters. Politics matters. This assertion might strike as the epitome of obviousness, but when it comes to Earth Day, there is a tendency to get away from the hard work of blocking and tackling and more toward thinking about Our Relationship With The Earth on a conceptual level. At this point, I’m sick of concepts.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ahead of a high-profile UN conference, political forecasters issue water warnings. The World Economic Forum acknowledged once again that ecological shocks such as these reverberate mightily in politics and society. Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, recently published its risk watch-list for 2023. Water still matters.

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The Applied Ecologist

APRIL 30, 2025

Populations of large carnivores have been declining in Ethiopia for many years due to a range of factors including reduced prey populations, pressure from neighbouring human settlements, habitat fragmentation and loss, and low political interest in conservation. Yet large carnivores, including the African wild dog, cheetah, …

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Politics Conservation 118

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The legal, political, social, and environmental conditions in an area shape water measurement and reporting practices and whether those practices produce adequate information about water diversion and use to support a water market. ” Here are four key takeaways: 1. Institutional context affects water measurement and reporting.

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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. Schedule F will reach well into agency middle management and impact many experienced and knowledgeable career civil servants with management, science, technical and other specialized expertise. [F]ull

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions. Scientists must remain engaged, ensuring the reports reflect the best available evidence, not just what is politically convenient. With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

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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. Scientists have held US political office from national to local levels.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Ah yes – he is a former right-wing state legislator from another part of the state , who when he lost his Congressional race, moved to Orange County to begin a new political career. He’s basically never held a real job in the private sector that he extols so much.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

Delay can also mean that changes in economic or political circumstances make projects no longer feasible. Imperfect in the sense that agencies may be willing to accept the risk of litigation or delay without doing outreach or consultation to try and avoid conflict, depending on the nature of the project and the political context.

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Politics Natural Resources Government 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Also like a sine graph, Union of Concerned Scientists will keep moving forward no matter what (and backward technically, but I am political science major and way out of my depth here, so let’s pretend they only move forward, give me kudos for an awesome simile, and get to the recap!). Much like a sine graph , this year had highs and lows.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2025

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2025 Politics Conservation 109

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

But for the first time since the Cold War ended, those numbers are starting to rise, and some political forces in the United States are using fears about China to justify a major expansion of the US nuclear arsenal. In prior wars, peace meant a return to normal. The war machine, having fulfilled its purpose, was dismantled.

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Politics Atmosphere Government Waste 346

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

They have neither employers to provide benefits nor political parties to represent their interests. Indeed, 93% of the Indian labor force are so-called informal workers, comprising everything from small farmers and vegetable sellers to piece-work stitching and waste recyclers.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

Perhaps more importantly there is also a massive imbalance of power and resources between climate justice activists and the political and commercial interests resisting transformative climate action. Climate justice activism has been met with continued political resistance, and in several countries, by moves to suppress and criminalize it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

The use of radiative forcing to understand emissions trajectories was then paired with varied political pathways to generate Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). Radiative forcing is the change in energy balance in the Earths atmosphere due to heat trapping emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Climate action is limited by political will (not technology) In this pivotal moment of history, where the imperative to avert the worst impacts of climate change is clear, the world stands at the cusp of a transformative shift toward a renewable energy paradigm. What’s lacking is political will.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The political momentum for water law reform continued apace in 2023, as evidenced by the Legislature’s passage of SB 389. But it’s not the end of the road to water reform; rather, it’s a key step in a larger and longer water reform movement–one that has considerable political momentum behind it.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 30, 2025

Many of the towns and villages that would fall under this regulation are so small they dont have many civil service, legal and planning experts beyond the mayors political appointees to advise them on development applications. In some cases, they may have no in-house lawyers or professional land-use planning experts at all.

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Government Law Politics Regulations 96

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

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