Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If the Trump Administration tries to revoke todays waiver, it will be doing so by ignoring the plain language of the Clean Air Act and will be telling California that the state cant comply with standards the federal government itself sets. And the reason it cant meet the standards? Transportation emissions are simply too big to ignore.

Clean Air Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. In the United States, coal production actually did peak in 2008 at 1.2 One target is Michigan’s climate law that requires 100 percent clean energy electrical generation for utilities by 2040.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

At a recent Columbia Law School colloquium, jointly sponsored by the Sabin Center and the Millstein Center, participants posed a foundational question: How do corporate law standards of fiduciary duty relate to what scientists call the climate emergency? [1] 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S. 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S.

Law

Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

The Constitution typically empowers (though doesn’t require) Congress to preempt state law in areas where the federal government has and exercises prime authority. Simultaneously barring states from taking action in the vacated arena is comically misaligned with our federal system and basic principles of government.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

With coal declining as a fuel for electricity, so is the amount of ash, which fell to 70 million tons in 2024, down from a peak of more than 130 million tons in 2008, according to the American Coal Ash Association. In recent years, about half has been directed to “beneficial uses,” including the making of concrete and wall board.

2015

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Since it was established in 2008, REAP has helped farmers and rural small businesses with grants and loan guarantees that help them improve energy efficiency and energy independence through projects like energy efficient irrigation systems and solar panels. The IRA also appropriated $820.25

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Additionally, they propose ending a multitude of protections under Title IX, a federal statute (signed into law by Richard Nixon) that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools and educational programs that receive federal funds. Indeed, the U.S. In 2017, Federal Pell grants and other federal financial aid grants accounted for 17.1%

2025

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Responsible for implementing the authorities of the PA Conservation District Law of May 15,1945, Paul credits the vision and foresight of the individuals responsible for the enactment of this statue and with enabling and guiding him throughout his soil and water conservation career.

Conservation

Nature

JUNE 17, 2025

Although our correlation study cannot prove that our suggested mechanism is correct, and we agree that Fialko and Kaneko make some reasonable points, here we explain why geometric locking may be an influential factor governing earthquake processes. Slip instability and state variable friction laws. 36 , 531–567 (2008).

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

trillion is eerily about the same amount of money that the Federal Reserve lent, spent or pledged to save the banking system after the 2008 financial collapse, according to Bloomberg News.) “The Bush respectively signed into law the Clean Water Act and the North American Wetlands Conservation Act in 1989. Photos by Derrick Z.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Here are 149 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

Proposition 2 is the original California ballot initiative, passed in 2008, imposing specific space requirements for pregnant sows, veal calves and laying hens. While numerous other states had previously passed similar farm animal confinement laws affecting sows and calves, this was the first state to also include laying hens.

Law

Physics World

JULY 15, 2025

Amid worldwide cultural and sociopolitical change, another revolution was unfolding in science, particularly in our understanding of physical phenomena that cannot be explained by the classical laws of physics. Photographer unknown) Bose’s derivation of Planck’s law impressed Einstein, who had also been trying to solve the problem.

Technology

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030.

Nuclear Power

Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois. As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution.

2008

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Gluesenkamp Perez and Golden, one of the major reasons Congress needs to consider reforms is because of the growing number of people who say they dont trust their government and who question the health of our democracy. The cube root law suggests that the number of representatives should grow at a slower rate than the general population.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). Climate change is no longer seen as a problem that only governments can address, partly due to past and present political failures to reach an agreement on climate solutions and party due to innovations coming from the private sector.

Climate Change

Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. December 2008: TCEQ remands the application for more modeling. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter.

2011

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan responded in 2008 by requiring farmers to register any new well capable of pumping at least 100,000 gallons a day and forming a team of state regulators to issue or deny new registrations. There’s a reason that farmers, notoriously resistant to government oversight, support the work of the Water Assessment Unit.

2009

Circle of Blue

MAY 28, 2025

The states strategy irks environmentalists who have long criticized Great Lakes governments for refusing to regulate farm pollution while instead leaning on voluntary programs that arent working. Others blame the missed deadline on regional governments refusal to force farmers to curb fertilizer pollution. Will it be enough?

Regulations

Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you have ever wondered how many ways a cocktail of stupidity*, treachery and feckless government can inflict financial harm on the undeserving, including the citizens the feckless government leaders are supposed to serve, see City of Dallas v. The applications were filed correctly and in accordance with applicable laws.

2008

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. In the U.S.,

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. from Lewis & Clark Law School, with a certificate in environmental and natural resources law, and a B.A. The Emmett Institute is co-sponsoring the meeting. Jason received his J.D.

Deforestation

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. Therefore, even if the current Chilean Government wanted to take over lithium production, that won’t happen soon.

Government

Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. What countries have declared rights of nature?

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The legislation would prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set protective standards on the development of natural gas that “imposes a standard or condition on well development that conflicts with or exceeds those contained” in state law. Read more here. Cecil Township is in Sen. Bartolotta’s district.

Natural Gas

CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Terminal is long-term leased by Chinese government-owned entities (“China Shipping”) from the City entities and handles about 17% of the Port’s total cargo. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Predictably, this led to CEQA litigation.

2008

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2025

To pick two examples: A used 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV can be had in many parts of the country for under $20,000; current law allows many families a tax credit of up to $4,000 for buying a used EV. As EV technology has continued to improve, automakers have brought more affordable models to market and used-vehicle inventory has grown.

Electricity

A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The court found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. There were three separate claims, brought by (1) Friends of the Earth, (2) ClientEarth, and (3) Good Law Project and environmental campaigner Joanna Wheatley. 14 of the Climate Change Act 2008 ( CCA ).

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process.

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

France) , the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized the legally binding nature of such a unilateral declaration under international law, where the statement clearly indicates an intention for that state to be bound. For further elaboration on this idea, see LRI’s legal assistance paper, Unilateral Declarations.

Paris Agreement

Manning Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

On this day, Manning Environmental Law honours the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. apologies by the government. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Our practice is focussed on environmental law, energy law and aboriginal law.

2008

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

Waste