Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2024

The federal withdrawal takes place within Ontario’s ongoing case against the designation. Much better city-building and transportation alternatives are at our fingertips,” said Tim Gray, Executive Director, Environmental Defence. The federal government should commit to re-designating Highway 413 under the new Act.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

His most recent piece even goes so far to take a potshot at the federal National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and other “little NEPAs” in states across the US. His most recent piece even goes so far to take a potshot at the federal National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and other “little NEPAs” in states across the US.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Beyond this year’s measurements, it’s critical to consider what our snow levels mean for water management in a warming climate, and what needs to change so we can better prepare for the future. Thanks to this program, there are more than 260 places throughout the state where either manual or electronic snow surveys take place.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In Canada, a long-standing history of government and corporate negligence has created a reality where Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities are disproportionately exposed to polluting industries and other environmental hazards. These circumstances create conditions in this country that manifest as environmental racism.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

The signal of El Niño taking shape is visible in the Pacific Ocean. Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. The unrelenting heat has caused a dizzying number of air and ocean temperature records to be broken in recent weeks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, through creating better communication networks between voters, policy makers, and scientists, such hurdles can be overcome. These conversations helped to make connections between academic and activist perspectives, and highlighted how the expertise of both should be considered in each other’s work.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As noted previously, the bedrock of the Commission’s charge was to take the prospect of significant climate overshoot and the associated risks seriously – which other high-level international climate bodies have not – and to think through how serious consideration of that risk changes how you think about all climate responses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

I wanted to take this space to share some of my thoughts from the panel—and why I believe this wasn’t exactly the right question to ask. And yet, technological innovation is not what’s standing in the way of significant and necessary near-term climate progress. But we could be making enormous strides right now.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I felt if we really wanted to take care of our vulnerable populations, the legal system was very constraining in addressing those solutions. Land wealth disparities became something that I pursued a lot of coursework to better understand. Land wealth disparities became something that I pursued a lot of coursework to better understand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court decision—technically, a denial of certiorari—comes after 20 appellate judges from six circuit courts, and the US Solicitor General have all also rejected fossil fuel industry arguments that sought to prevent these cases from advancing in state courts where they were filed.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

As Gernot Wagner puts it in ‘ Geoengineering: the Gamble ’: “The decision is all about risk-risk tradeoffs” He urges us to put the risks of potentially pursuing solar geoengineering against “the risks of unmitigated climate change.” This makes such a conclusion much less clear cut.

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Acoel

APRIL 24, 2023

Readily available technologies like electric heat pumps and induction stoves are better for our health and the climate, far more efficient than their gas predecessors, and increasingly cost-effective. These kinds of regulations, authorized under both federal and state law, are also not impacted by the Berkeley decision.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 16, 2022

Dangerous precedent for federal decision-making at core of concerns . The lawsuit challenges the government’s decision to turn down the second request. The groups argue that the Minister Guilbeault’s decision was based not on evidence, but rather unreasonably deferred to the previous Minister’s decision.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The landmark motions, which were introduced by Supervisors Holly Mitchell and Sheila Kuehl, make Los Angeles County the first county in the U.S. STAND-L.A., Physicians for Social Responsibility–Los Angeles represents STAND-L.A.’s The effort to phase out oil and gas extraction in L.A.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Q: What do you make of the reduction in deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon and what else should we know? This vote also highlighted that citizens of Ecuador chose decisively to favor their forests and people, despite the tired debate that seeks to pit economic development against environmental protection.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2021

World leaders met in Glasgow for COP 26 where they did not agree to take actions consistent with maintaining less than 1.5C However, they promised to come back in 2022 with better plans. 2021 was a year dominated by environmental news. With this rebound came the increase in carbon emissions and effects of climate change.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. Electrification is a critical component of building decarbonization, and local governments are taking a leading role in this policy space. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley. In exploring what the CRA v.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. On the other hand, Argentina is taking this opportunity seriously with an open, foreign-friendly, and low-royalty approach.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It is often hard to make sense of what happens at the annual climate meetings, and easy to get cynical. And the middle one is a shifting informal hybrid, which I increasingly think is where the most important action takes place. For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Then things move on.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Right now, Peel Region is at risk of making the same mistake all over again. Although Peel council hasn’t made any final decisions, it is currently working its way through the process the province has designed. This is a guest blog by Jenni Le Forestier, a resident of Peel Region. It wasn’t much fun.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

Historically Excluded From Colorado River Policy, Tribes Want a Say In How the Dwindling Resource Is Used Access to Clean Water Is a Start. This article was produced by Colorado Public Radio. The project was made possible by a grant from the Water Foundation with additional support from INN. For earlier stories in the Tapped Out series, click here.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

To make their contribution, utilities will have to pull against strong currents. Decades of energy policy decisions have left the U.S. utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Photo © Richard Webb / Wikimedia Commons. million metric tons. How It Works.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The draft text released on Tuesday morning by the time the talks were scheduled to complete was no better and brought the COP climate talks to the brink of collapse for the first time in its 28-year history. The decision at #COP28 to finally recognize that the climate crisis is, at its heart, a fossil fuel crisis is an important milestone.

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Stack Environment

MARCH 17, 2021

When you learn that another entity has requested a zoning change from the local government, you may have limited time to unify your neighbors and take action. The more you know about the zoning laws and the process for changing them, the better you will be able to communicate your concerns to the decision makers.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I came to Yale University as a faculty member in physics to take on a very different leadership role: to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across the arts and sciences. I never experienced self-doubt about either of those decisions, and a great many people encouraged me. Courtesy: Larry Gladney).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Today, settled into his new home further inland, the memory of Anderso’s life in the Flats makes his heart ache. “I Dean Anderson remembers selling his home as one of the hardest decision he ever made. Dean Anderson remembers selling his home as one of the hardest decision he ever made. I miss it still,” he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document. I recently sat down with Sadai to better understand her research, passion for her work, and the role of science in climate accountability, from the local lawsuits to international climate negotiations.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

This post takes a preliminary look at the decision and unpacks a few of the questions left behind by the panel’s opinion. I want to use this space to sketch out a few of those questions and preliminary thoughts on why they may create problems if this opinion stands. Photo from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Many of you joined the call with us and urged leaders to take ocean-based climate action. In the streets of Glasgow that call-to-action permeated the air: You could sense the cries from people around the world who want a better future for their communities, coasts and ocean. Never miss an update. It was great to finally see the U.S.

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Stack Environment

MARCH 17, 2021

When you learn that another entity has requested a zoning change from the local government, you may have limited time to unify your neighbors and take action. The more you know about the zoning laws and the process for changing them, the better you will be able to communicate your concerns to the decision makers.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities. If you haven’t heard of the CER, you are not alone. C pathway.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

by Patricia Albano / Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Patricia stands with remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during an expedition to explore the deep waters off the West Florida Shelf. Image: Patricia Albano. What inspired you to become a researcher? For me, it wasn’t a phase.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 13, 2020

for lack of Article III standing. The Court’s main argument indicates that Congress and the Executive branch would be better mediums for these young Plaintiffs to advocate for the constitutional relief they seek. means that the eleven-member bench will be asked to make a final decision on January’s highly controversial ruling.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

In a 5-2 opinion filed August 1, 2022, a divided California Supreme Court held the Federal Power Act (“FPA”; 16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.) Department of Water Resources (2022) Cal.5th 5th , Case No. 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).). North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 21, 2021

The myth that plastic pollution would end if we just stopped littering and did a better job of sorting our waste is seriously hard to debunk. It takes the heat off them. . For forty years, we tried valiantly to make recycling work. Now, in the 21st century, Big Plastic has taken a harder stand.

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Frontiers

JUNE 12, 2023

As a special treat, my dad would take us out snorkeling. My aunt, who was a big part of our childhood, used to take us to her village and remote inland river areas. In honor of both SDG 14 and World Ocean Day this month, I spoke to Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai, principal consultant and research scientist at Talanoa Consulting.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Taking on narrow elk trails in the Ellsworth Creek Preserve was an adventure I won’t soon forget. A: Stephanie Schmid This summer I was fortunate enough to witness the TNC Science Team working hard on impactful research projects that inform conservation management decisions in a variety of different ecosystems and places.

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