Enviromental Defense
MARCH 17, 2023
Late in the federal court hearings last week, in their lawsuit against plastics regulations , Big Plastic’s arguments went completely off the rails. It’s called the Precautionary Principle and it’s widely accepted in environmental law in Canada and well beyond. They say that federal regulation of plastics is merely political.
Legal Planet
MARCH 8, 2024
SRM has long generated concerns that, as a powerful lever on the Earth system, it could have unwanted side-effects and generate political and ethical risks, as well as lowering temperatures. At any rate, avoiding steps towards regulation would leave them free to develop norms and policy on SRM as they see fit.
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Environmental Europe
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
America’s environmental agenda will be guided by true specialists in conservation, not those with radical political agendas. Ronald Reagan made removing environmental ‘over-regulation’ one of his key campaign objectives in the 1980s. 2] Examples of such principled opposition include calling for the respect for property rights (v.
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants. 13] California regulators in 2020 over-estimated the contribution they could reasonably expect from renewables. The situation could have been avoided,” said the CEO of CAISO.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
States Filed Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Changes to the Endangered Species Act Regulations. Seventeen states, the District of Columbia, and New York City filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Northern District of California challenging amendments to the regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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