Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 9, 2023
A new proposed rule from the Biden administration would cut emissions from new federal buildings 90 percent from 2003 levels in the next two years. Under the proposed rule, new or renovated federal buildings would be required to reduce emissions from the 2003 baseline by 90 percent beginning in 2025.
Legal Planet
MARCH 19, 2023
Remarkably, however, and despite the fact that the federal government negotiated two important 19th century treaties with the Navajo Nation, the U.S. government has never seen fit to expressly provide federal water rights to the Nation to make its expansive reservation fully habitable. Navajo Nation and U.S. Navajo Nation.
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Nanotech
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The Biden Administration announced on November 9, 2023, that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) issued final revisions to Circular A-4, the government-wide guidance on regulatory analysis.
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 1, 2023
In its current form, the draft legislation would restore Greenbelt protection to the fifteen key areas of farmland and natural heritage the government stripped of protection in December 2022. ” The full submission to the Ontario government is available here.
Legal Planet
JULY 4, 2022
This is followed by an expression of the social compact theory, that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” And the percentage of Republicans believing that global warming is caused by human carbon emissions fell from 65% to 32% from 2003 to 2021 – an example of massive willed ignorance.
Legal Planet
APRIL 13, 2023
The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
But the Ninth Circuit, in a 2022 ruling, said that the federal government should draw up a plan to incorporate the Nation’s implied rights to water in its management of the river. The Navajo Nation argues, in the lawsuit that originated in 2003, that this is a breach of the federal government’s duty.
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