Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The new rules would oblige companies to integrate their human rights and environmental impact into their management systems. The CSDDD’s key aim is to enhance the protection of the environment and human rights globally. Davies , Michael D. The rules would apply from 2027 at the earliest.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Energy law used to be an obscure niche subject. It was devoted to subjects like oil and gas leases, the proper inflation adjustments in utility rates, and depreciation schedules for power plant. These facts make energy law central to one of the biggest issues now facing humanity. Only specialists really paid much attention.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 14, 2022

They identified small mammal remains from the Anthropocene and archaeological Holocene along a geographical area with varying degrees of human impact and examined diversity across these sites and time periods. Excellent study subjects. “We Small mammals, such as rats and shrews, are ideal subjects for spatiotemporal studies.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

From hydras to humans, this short book by two marine biologists explores the peculiar process of regeneration, showing that it is a far bigger subject than it might at first seem

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Scientists investigating whether this happens in teams which combine work by robots and humans found that humans carrying out quality assurance tasks spotted fewer errors when they had been told that robots had already checked a piece, suggesting they relied on the robots and paid less attention to the work. Safety at risk?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Human health and wildlife are threatened. . In its impact assessment, the federal agency concluded the water transfer project, which will operate through the Central Arizona Project, will not have a significant effect on the human environment. The American West is experiencing its most severe drought in 1,200 years.

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Law and Environment

JULY 15, 2021

If this becomes just another in a long line of screeds on the subject that all Superfund cleanups take too long, it will accomplish nothing for cleanups in general or EJ communities in particular. More importantly, if implemented appropriately, it could help reduce the risks posed by Superfund sites in overburdened EJ communities. .

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Although seasonality in animal sleep is well known, for the past 25 years we’ve assumed humans are different. In our study we show that human sleep architecture varies substantially across seasons in an adult population living in an urban environment.” Whether we’re night owls or morning larks, our body clocks are set by the sun.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 20, 2022

Most traditional fashion programs now offer sustainability courses but approach the subject inside silos — students take biology and broad offerings on “ecology and environmental problems” — while issues of neocolonialism and human rights go unexplored. Read the full story at The Cut.

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Frontiers

JUNE 24, 2021

Two distinctly different stories have been created to explain how fearsome, wild wolves were first domesticated by humans, according to Prof James A Serpell of the University of Pennsylvania. Despite being considered mankind’s best friend, the ancestors of modern dogs were a lot less welcoming to human owners.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to acknowledging society’s impact on climate, environment, and human security, water is the next frontier for comprehensive accounting and adaptation strategies — for industry, municipalities, governments, and individuals, all of which have made impressive commitments and progress to track carbon pollution. Provocative?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2023

Nevertheless, his life is a useful lens through which to reflect on the hopes and the fears of the new nuclear age as well as the question— left unresolved—of whether human civilization will survive the destructive forces we have set into motion. Christopher Nolan adds to this body of work with his latest film, Oppenheimer.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Microbial communities, or microbiomes, are essential for safeguarding human and environmental health through the most widely used biotechnological process on our planet: biological wastewater treatment. Read the full story from the University of Luxembourg.

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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 5, 2023

However, human bodies are not naturally suited to the sea; entering or crossing it means challenging one’s own capacities in the face of the power of water. From his writings the main point to note is that the sea is not subject to an individual’s dominion and, therefore, is also not subject to Roman governance.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 28, 2021

First, EPA published its human health toxicity assessment for “GenX chemicals,” also known as hexafluoropropylene oxide (“HFPO”) dimer acid (and don’t forget its ammonium salt!). Adding the PFAS compounds to Appendix VIII subjects them to potential corrective action requirements. There were two important items this week.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 4, 2023

On World Mental Health Day 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mental health a fundamental human right that should be accessible to everyone, regardless of location or background. In support of WHO’s mission, we have compiled a list of leading article collections advancing mental health research.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Mary Roach has a way of writing that makes any subject both interesting and fun. Her new book, Fuzz, about human-wildlife conflict is no exception

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Earlier this month, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) published the findings of a seven-year investigation documenting the connection between the deliberate actions of the world’s largest carbon emitters and climate-related human rights abuses in the Philippines. Movement in US Courts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Many public health and other medical agencies have clearly declared climate change as the number one health threat in humanity’s immediate future, and because power plants burning fossil fuels are one of the leading contributors to climate change in the U.S., I care greatly about this subject.

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Facilities subject to Subtitle C have cleanup obligations if there is a release of hazardous waste at a Subtitle C facility. A RCRA unit at a facility that had a release of hazardous waste is subject to RCRA Closure. Subtitle C applies to facilities that transfer, store, and dispose of hazardous waste (referred to as TSDFs).

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Nanotech

MAY 23, 2023

A second session, scheduled for June 6, 2023 , will focus on activities of agencies with regulatory responsibilities or that engage in interagency or international collaborations on the subject of micro- and nanoplastics. government agencies in tackling the challenge of plastic waste in the environment.

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Frontiers

JUNE 7, 2023

I believe that by bridging disciplinary gaps, we can gain an understanding of the human mind and its interaction with the world. When cognition is seen as a simple input-output process in the brain, it overlooks the embodied complexities of human experience and the biases embedded in AI design.

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Frontiers

MARCH 13, 2023

By Lee G Irons , Norfolk Institute, and Morgan A Irons , Cornell University Photo of Lee and Morgan, Credit: Lee Irons and Morgan Irons Is human migration into space inevitable? Is it based on facts, or is it based upon a belief in human exceptionalism? Accomplishing the development of such capability is known as terraforming.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

An ecological trap either attracts wildlife to or fails to repel wildlife from a mostly human–made situation or activity where the probability of being killed is substantially increased. Books have been written on this subject of bird declines. One very common trap is when wildlife food and cover are on opposite sides of a road.

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Energy & the Law

APRIL 29, 2021

Higher CO2 levels are good for plant life but higher temperatures have fewer benefits and subject humans to higher risks. Perhaps humans can adapt to higher temperatures with technological innovations.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Not only has the subject gotten a lot more interesting because of new legal issues relating to renewable energy, but it’s been a growth area in terms of jobs. Land use law is another subject that may be transformed by climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 14, 2023

Plastic Production Harms Human Health and Human Rights Two of Canada’s three Big Plastic producers – the ones who are suing the government for regulating plastics – have plants in Chemical Valley: Imperial Oil (which also mines the Alberta tar sands and refines crude oil) and Nova Chemicals. We need to make and use less plastic.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Mathematics and physics were considered safe choices for Jews who wished to excel academically, because these subjects were viewed at that time as being relatively harmless and reasonably well rewarded. He was a cheerful man, an optimist who loved money and believed firmly in human progress. 2021 Allen Lane £20hb 368pp.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Next week’s judgments from the European Court of Human Rights in its first climate cases will be another significant factor to shape this field – so watch this space for more analysis to come! Such large scale reliance creates a high risk of future non-deployment, and significant implications for human rights and ecological integrity.

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Frontiers

MAY 31, 2022

In the new study, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , Laeng and colleagues show that the ‘expanding hole’ illusion is so good at deceiving our brain that it even prompts a dilation reflex of the pupils to let in more light, just as would happen if we were really moving into a dark area.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2024

Through bioaccumulation, those contaminants could make their way through the ecosystem and into human food. Clair and Lake Erie watershed could consume chemical contaminants leached from the dump. Residents of Dresden would also be significantly impacted by the proposed development as the site is located just 1 kilometer from town.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Human subjects were asked to compare two vibrations and say which is at the higher frequency. Indeed, they found that at certain amplitudes, the subjects believed that vibrations at two different frequencies were at the same frequency – an effect called metamerism. Vibrational metamerism.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the scientific literature, the definition of PFAS has been a subject of rich and sometimes confusing debate, but the most widely used and inclusive definition is one developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2021. The working definition excluded certain refrigerants and PFAS gases.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In our legal system, international agreements — whether in the form of human rights treaties or climate agreements — are usually not subject to enforcement by courts unless Congress has passed implementing legislation. The Supreme Court also pays little attention to rulings by foreign courts.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On December 8, 2021, the US Department of State (State) and the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) issued new restrictions on exports to Cambodia in an effort to address human right abuses and corruption concerns.[[N:86 Cambodia is now subject to a more restricted licensing policy for National Security-controlled items. N:86 C.F.R.

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Physics World

AUGUST 4, 2021

In April, a separate group of Swiss researchers published the first results showing the tracer was effective in human Alzheimer’s disease tissue samples. for cognitively impaired subjects and 77.7 Edison and colleagues have been studying 11 C-BU99008 since it was synthesized in 2012. Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/ in healthy patients.

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