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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020.

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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

Circle of Blue

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. There’s a reason that farmers, notoriously resistant to government oversight, support the work of the Water Assessment Unit.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Electric Vehicle Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Enviromental Defense

The average range of battery-powered EVs tripled from 2010 to 2021. Environmental Defence has also recommended that the federal government should explore developing a certification process where the critical minerals sourced for EV batteries must meet minimum ethical standards. The federal government has a key role to play.

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California Supreme Court Holds In 5-2 Decision, Over Chief Justice’s Strong Dissent, That Federal Power Act Does Not Fully Preempt CEQA’s Application to FERC’s Licensing Process for State-Owned and Operated Hydroelectric Projects

CEQA Developments

That CEQA litigation consumed about four years in the state trial court; the SWRCB, in the meantime, relied on DWR’s EIR and FERC’s EIS to grant the CWA § 401 water quality certification in late 2010. North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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Taking Climate Change to the International Court of Justice: Legal and Procedural Issues

Law Columbia

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. For example, the court would hear about the Draft Articles on the Prevention of Transboundary Harm from Hazardous Activities, promulgated by the International Law Commission in 2001. It sits in the Hague.

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The Dusky Gopher Frog Causes Big Problems for Industrial and Commercial Development in Parts of St. Tammany Parish

The Energy Law

In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. This frog has historically lived in nine counties or parishes across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.