Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The post Plastic Taxes Incentivize Recycling and Boost Government Revenue appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Yet there is reasonable hope that will change, as countries like the UK, Spain, and Ghana roll out widespread plastic tax legislation.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2023

The post Federal Government Advances Big Water Projects appeared first on Circle of Blue. “It means that every utility now really, really, really needs to go and get earmarks because they can’t count on the SRF funding in the state to be high enough,” she said.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Following meetings between President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada’s government pledges increased spending on the Great Lakes. Jurisdiction of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) territory of Akwesasne is shared three ways — a council elected by the Canadian government, a council elected by the U.S. Find all the work here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2021

First, the bad: The federal scientific workforce—in other words, the scientists and experts who work for the government on behalf of the public—needs help. Here at the Union of Concerned Scientists, we have bad news and good news. That workforce is aging quickly. It’s not as diverse as it should be. And federal agencies have […].

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Green , and James Bee On 18 December 2023, the UK government announced a proposal for a new carbon border adjustment mechanism (UK CBAM). The government intends the UK CBAM to work alongside the UK ETS to mitigate the risk of carbon leakage. Davies , Michael D.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Municipal drinking water failures like the crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, are also threats to government legitimacy. Teodoro, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Circle of Blue that tap water in the United States is the “most intimate relationship between a government and its people.”

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The post Governments of Canada and Ontario Invest $11.3M CHAR’s high temperature pyrolysis (HTP) process converts woody biomass to simultaneously produce two highly profitable green outputs ready for industrial application without generating greenhouse gases. in Woody Biomass Facility appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 23, 2023

It’s been an eventful last few years for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), as increasing stakeholder demand for companies to improve their sustainability transparency has transformed the business world, pushing ESG discussions into places they’d never been.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In a recently published paper , we explore the emerging possibilities of green infrastructure through a governance lens, focusing on large scale implementation. Our findings suggest that LSGI projects face intertwined governance challenges that flow from their core strength: LSGI’s multi-benefit nature. Cano Pecharroman et al.

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sean Kirkpatrick looked into the skies and deep into government archives for extraterrestrials. What he found is, to him, more concerning than little green men.

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New Scientist

MARCH 12, 2024

Now, the US government wants to tackle the problem The computers that secure cryptocurrencies like bitcoin consume large amounts of power, pushing up electricity prices and potentially contributing to climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Ontario government has failed to comply with its legislative obligation to respond to this request and has also failed to respond to an Information and Privacy Commissioner Order. The government is now under criminal investigation by the RCMP. This case is important to upholding the integrity of the access to information system. “We’re

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The conservative government in Ontario is pushing for changes to the province’s wetlands policy that would loosen protections for “provincially significant wetlands.”. “If Even though the government wants to offset losses by building replacement wetlands, ecologists say that it’s not a one-to-one trade. Ohio ’s governor announces $2.4

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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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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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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Seeking to offset rising energy costs, governments spent more than $1 trillion on subsidies for the consumption of fossil fuels last year, an all-time high. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In that case, Our Children’s Trust represented a group of Oregon youths who sued the federal government, seeking redress for what the children claimed was the government’s failure to protect them from the environmental, health and economic damage wreaked by climate change. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Why would the government be ending it now with little notice?” Canadians are just now learning about heat pumps, the industry is booming, yet the government is pulling the rug out? The groups are calling on the Federal government to not only continue this program but to also expand the incentives to retrofit low-income homes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The United States government has questions about China’s goals and intentions, and about how to respond at a time when US-China relations are deteriorating. China is becoming an active international conflict mediator. More importantly, they said that countries welcome this value neutral approach.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6

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Yale E360

AUGUST 25, 2023

After Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted to ban new oil wells in a prized national park, the government challenged the legitimacy of the referendum and said it would continue drilling. Read more on E360 →

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

The Ontario public’s expectation is that Highway 413 will be re-designated fast enough to ensure that the provincial government does not have time to destroy key habitats or waterways during a gap in protections.

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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. It must be dismantled and rebuilt with a co-governing body, where downstream impacted Indigenous communities have policy-making authority and leadership roles,” said Jesse Cardinal, Executive Director at Keepers of the Water.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite assurances that the legislation is a government priority, it has not yet been scheduled for a third reading. It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise. The impacts of the energy transition are already being felt across the country. Waiting any longer could be too late for some workers and their families.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 19, 2023

from the UK Government appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. With support from the FIF, Entopy and Fujitsu will explore how Atamai Freight can be expanded to include other modes of transport The post Atamai Freight Solution to Receive $8.7M

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

The post Governing Emissions Trading in California and China appeared first on Legal Planet. Later this summer, our team will release a second report on California’s experience on emissions trading with further analysis of the California carbon ETS, the RECLAIM trading system, and China’s national carbon ETS. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Azerbaijan’s government said that Armenia’s mining and deforestation has irreversibly damaged the region’s natural waterways. The post The Stream, February 1, 2023: US Government Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass Forest appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Mayors must deliver a resounding “no” to this corrupt, anti-democratic push that would subject boundary decisions to the same corrupting forces that led the provincial government to force sprawl on their communities in the first place. We trust they have the intelligence and integrity not to fall for it.”

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Law and Environment

JUNE 3, 2022

In an effort to “redress inequities in [Federal] policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity,” the Biden administration has set forth an agenda to identify areas of improvement and advance equity across the Federal Government. Reporting agency results is vital in tracking agency progress and creating public transparency.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 7, 2022

Following that announcement, an INPE researcher said the government would stop monitoring deforestation in the Cerrado, owing to a lack of funds. Read more on E360 ?.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Guiding the summit’s discussions was the newly released “Global Indigenous Agenda for the Governance of Indigenous Lands, Territories, Waters, Coastal Seas and Natural Resources,” authored by the IUCN Indigenous partner organizations. A measure of success from this summit would be a change in the tune of future government decisions.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

Supreme Court gave state and local governments a big–if preliminary–legal win against the fossil fuel industry. This climate change litigation template was quickly embraced and replicated by state and local governments across the United States, who followed suit by filing their own, similar cases against the fossil fuel industry.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Our goal is to meet local governments where they are in their EV planning processes, build momentum, and ensure these communities are the focus of policymakers’ efforts to decarbonize transportation. The post How Can Local Governments Plan for Equity in EV Infrastructure? Download as PDF. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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