Ocean Conservancy

MAY 26, 2022

This blog was written by Claudia Cecilia Olimón, the Latin America GGGI Project Coordinator Consultant for Ocean Conservancy. She has more than 12 years working in ocean conservation. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Holds a MSc. in Ecosystem Management, a BSc. in Social Communication and a tech.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. ICS is not conservation in the household sense of simply using less. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue. million acres.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

And as all so-claimed “eco”-friendly things do, it gained significant popularity as a way to experience nature’s wonders while supporting conservation efforts. However, the Indian judiciary displays a proactive commitment to environmental conservation. In Nagarahole Budakattu Hakku Sthapana Samithi v. In Union of India v.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Environmentalists have successfully advocated for low fixed charges on the basis of conservation. The idea is that a volumetric rate based on marginal costs may be more economically efficient, but could create a price signal too weak to incentivize conservation, another important goal.

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Acoel

AUGUST 27, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The recent successes by plaintiffs in Pennsylvania and Montana may inspire similar efforts in other states, especially if the federal government continues to fall short in combating climate change.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

In 2018, the legislature allocated $2 million to DEQ’s Division of Water Infrastructure to help local governments extend water lines to properties affected by contamination caused by per? The project, restoration of Little Alamance Creek in Burlington, was completed in 2012-2013. fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) including GenX.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 12, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes. On May 4, 2016, environmental groups sued the U.S. See Appalachian Voices v. McCarthy , 989 F.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

Watershed Conservation Authority (2021) Cal.App.5th. Defendant Watershed Conservation Authority, a joint powers agency of the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers Mountain Conservancy and the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, is the lead agency for CEQA purposes. Save Our Access – San Gabriel Mountains v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In other words, who has standing to bring challenges to government action under the ERA. The ERA states: The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. By Paul Bruder, Jr., Commonwealth, 83 A.3d 3d 901 (Pa.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

The study which is being requested as part of this bill may help determine whether or not trophy hunting actually benefits endangered species conservation. After Cecil the Lion was killed last summer, the Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large Animal Trophies Act (H.R. By Elizabeth Smith. the CECIL Act.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supreme Court has agreed to hear and decide an important “regulatory takings” case from California that has major implications for federal, state and local governments nationwide. Finally, in the 2013 case of Koontz v. The case is Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, Docket No.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 21, 2016

A group of private landowners (“the Landowners”), who owned all of Unit 1, brought a lawsuit in 2013 for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the FWS, its director, the United States Department of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Interior. Tammany Parish (“Unit 1”).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

People and organizations from across the state attended PEC’s 2023 Western Pennsylvania Dinner May 3 to celebrate the three-term Allegheny County Executive, who accepted his award from Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR).

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

has prompted concerns that it will stifle the compensatory mitigation practices of environmental and natural resources permitting agencies. In both cases the Court emphasized that the government bears the burden of proving its exaction satisfies the standards. 2586 (2013). , Johns Water Management District. The form of.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They based their campaign on state law, the powerful Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA), which gives citizens the right to protect all natural resources from “conduct” that is “likely to result in pollution, impairment, or destruction” from any source. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 30, 2021

DoD understood the health risks posed by toxic PFAS for decades but failed to act to protect service members.” – Scott Faber, senior vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group. Since 2013, more than 12 billion gallons of water are estimated to have been stolen across the state. 725 MILLION .

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 12, 2023

Credit: Methodist Church Global Ministries/Kenneth Thompson Hamer’s lived experience with poverty and disregard by the United States government gave her a deep understanding of the importance of creating community-based methods of self-sufficiency. Hamer Representing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

This private-public partnership enlisted members representing nonprofit organizations, businesses and local, state, and federal government agencies. In 2013, Act 89 was passed increasing the funding for the Program from $5 Million to $35 Million annually in 2014-15. Read more here.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Bill of Rights protects rights of people against the government. Thus, section 19 probably constrains government action or requires affirmative government action, but it does not create a right of your neighbor to have you maintain your trees or to stop polluting. That right is part of Article I, the New York Bill of Rights.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Q: The federal government raised some threshold argument about standing and other issues. Before starting, here’s a little more background about the three cases: Texas v.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

initiative to establish Natural Capital Accounts and Secretary Deb Haaland about the first ever National Nature Assessment. These announcements are the start of a renewed commitment to and increased ambition on nature and people across the federal government. Martin Heinrich introduced legislation ( H.R. 7580 & S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. New Hampshire’s 2024 climate action plan: redux, revival or redo?

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Today, as a partner at Cascadia Law Group and a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington, Maia is a bridge between Tribal Nations, U.S. and Washington governments, and advocates of our precious environment. "It

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Department of Interior , No.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Advances in attribution science since the last report was issued in 2013 have allowed experts to connect individual events to climate change with more certainty. Chair : Sen.

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