Circle of Blue
JANUARY 26, 2022
In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. What’s Up With Water—January 24, 2022 – This week’s episode covers a strategically important dam in Syria that was the target of a U.S.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
2006 AB 32. 2022 AB 1279. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2018 SB100. 2023 SB 253.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
A 2022 study by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Sichuan University in China estimated that exposure to one form of PFAS (PFOS, for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid), may have played a role in the deaths of more than 6 million people in the United States between 1999 and 2018. But companies had a leisurely decade to meet commitments.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 6, 2023
Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . billion gallons — to build 7,000 homes. Keith Schneider.
Legal Planet
MAY 11, 2022
For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. The views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan?
Greenbuilding Law
APRIL 17, 2022
The enrolled bill, now a statute known as the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 , is premised on the idea that “the State has the ingenuity to reduce the threat of global warming and make GHG reductions a part of the State’s future” by, among other things, achieving net zero statewide GHG emissions by 2045. only days from now).
Greenbuilding Law
DECEMBER 11, 2022
The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”. Revised estimates of the social cost of GHG were released on November 11, 2022, by EPA. That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,
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