Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After a landmark 2022—a record $54 billion committed to climate spending and legislation that codified the state’s goals of carbon neutrality by 2045 and 90 percent clean electricity by 2035—a significantly gloomier budget forecast gave rise to fears that California’s climate programs would take a hit.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As many as 2 million children attend elementary schools near farms where pesticides are likely applied, as federal legislators aim to gut state and local health protections.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

On the last day of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session, state legislators had a real case of the Mondays: They failed to deliver on climate and energy policies that would have accelerated renewable energy enough to forge a clear path to carbon-free electricity and set the state on track to meet science-based emission reduction targets.

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NRDC

APRIL 28, 2023

Senators Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV) and Jim Risch (R-ID) have introduced legislation that makes it easier for mining companies and others to acquire rights to federal land and to be able to use them as dumping grounds and worse.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Juliana was a valiant effort by a group of young people to force the federal government to plan for stringent reductions in U.S. law over past decades, some of the basic foundations they needed weren’t there or were very shaky. Lack of legislated support. There is also no legislation in the U.S. carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

But it deserves to be remembered as a milestone in federal policy. On April 20, 1832, Andrew Jackson signed legislation to set the springs and surrounding mountains from development. That ruling cleared the way for active federal management of the land by the Interior Department. 698 (1875). The land is now a National Park.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. Vattenfall viewed this as expropriation and, together with other companies, took its case to the German Federal Constitutional Court.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

This situation underscores the urgent need for legislative action to protect both utilities and consumers from undue financial strain. The PUC stands ready to work collaboratively with federal lawmakers and stakeholders to enact meaningful legislation that addresses this pressing issue.

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

Problems with the current Impact Assessment Act always meant the current assessment designation of Highway 413 would eventually need to be discontinued and re-instituted under an updated version of the law.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We convened legislative leaders, agency leaders and financial experts to share the recommendation and further refine it. We then drafted state legislation to require disclosure of climate change-related financial risks, which was introduced by California State Senator Henry Stern as SB 449 (Stern) in the 2021-2022 session.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Michigan legislators recently passed a series of energy-related bills that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign into law tomorrow. That criteria should be applied to other significant utility filings, including rate cases, but they were scaled back in the final legislation.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

Statement by Aliénor Rougeot, Program Manager, Climate and Energy It is good news for workers and communities that the Sustainable Jobs Act is one step closer to becoming law. This legislation is essential for preparing Canadians to succeed in the green economy.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. candidate at Berkeley Law.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

(Credit: Bet Hannon Business) While there’s a great deal that’s dysfunctional and downright wrong about water law and policy in California, occasionally there are positive developments to report. California law allows public agencies to seek formal judicial approval of final agency actions.)

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The UCLA Law Tribal Legal Development Clinic published a white paper on the need for confidentiality within tribal cultural resource protection , which was recently highlighted in a panel held by the UCLA Native Nations Law & Policy Center. FOIA Exemptions 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 have the potential to prove useful to tribes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

State laws and practices manage the grid as a monopoly and regulate the siting and construction of new transmission. While the majority of states have clean energy portfolio laws, there are fewer that have taken on the task of expanding the grid to enable the clean energy transition and retirement of fossil fuel powerplants.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

It was only once that shift was made that we could begin to think of contaminated rivers, smog, and clearcutting as part of the same body of law. In other words, it was only then that we could in terms of “environmental law” rather than distinct bodies of rules governing a scattering of different situations.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications. How much global technological innovation will be spurred by these investments?

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A federal appeals court has affirmed that a “greenwashing” lawsuit by the District of Columbia against several major energy companies should not be heard in federal court. Part I of this blog covers some basics about state and federal courts, explaining why the jurisdictional question of where a case will be decided is often contested.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The legislation will require the creation of several funds to support its policies. The initial funding will likely be sourced from state surplus funds and federal aid. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. Plaintiffs argued that the federal Clean Air Act (CAA), the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA), and the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) preempt Rule 2305.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2023

A recent analysis  by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that federal agencies focused on agriculture and health invested an average of only $16.2 This mammoth piece of legislation covers everything from conservation to nutrition to crop insurance. But that could all change with the next food and farm bill.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

Last week, the Newsom administration announced a budget trailer bill package it said was designed to facilitate the deployment of historic federal infrastructure funding for climate-friendly projects. But the package also makes a major change to California species protection law.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. The book also analyses the domestic laws governing ocean CDR in Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the U.K.,

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 4, 2023

The federal government recently released its proposed Sustainable Jobs Act , following up on its promise to pass just transition legislation. There is however a problem with the proposed legislation – it leaves a lot of room for greenwashing, delayed climate action and disregard for Indigenous rights.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Candidate at UCLA Law (2L) Last week, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula introduced AB 2623 , a bill designed to guard California communities against the dangers of transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines. There are some federal regulations, but they leave much to be desired. Guest contributor Jennifer Imm is a J.D.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

Tom Wolf signed legislation designating the Eastern hellbender as Pennsylvania’s official state amphibian. Army and plans to apply to law school in the fall. During the hellbender campaign, the students studied hellbenders extensively, they met with state legislators, and installed nesting boxes in several Pennsylvania streams.

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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2021

Late last month, the Washington Legislature passed the “ Climate Commitment Act ”, a piece of sweeping climate legislation that includes, among other provisions, an economy-wide cap-and-trade system. What is the world of climate regulation going to look like when the states and the federal government have all the key policies in place?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. This Private Member’s Bill is only necessary because the federal government has failed to keep its own promise.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

This legislation would allow states and tribes to set aside a portion of the abandoned mine land funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Job Act to treat AMD specifically, reducing long-term water pollution and investing in the economic health of their communities. The infrastructure law provides an additional $11.3 Mike Braun.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The potential new law would reignite the Ontario government’s sprawl and land speculation scandal in three main ways : The bill being considered would backtrack on last year’s reversal of the corrupt settlement boundary expansions that were imposed on Golden Horseshoe regions in 2022.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

City of New York , a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment and other building owners seeking to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the City’s largest buildings. The court holds that the CLCPA does not preempt Local Law 97.

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National Law Center

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. Judicial: Federal-question.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. We spent years fighting for much-needed legislation to strengthen Canada’s environmental laws and fix the broken project review process. Remember Bill C-69?

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2022

by Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law School The new Inflation Reduction Act is being justly celebrated as the most significant piece of federal legislation to address the climate crisis to date. It includes about US$370 billion in incentives for everything from solar panels to electric vehicles.

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