Circle of Blue
MAY 9, 2022
Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. Getting enough money from the state and federal governments to help maintain city services has become a struggle for many Michigan municipalities. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2015 SB350.
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Legal Planet
APRIL 13, 2023
The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.
Energy and Climate Law
DECEMBER 8, 2020
For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.
Environmental Europe
JANUARY 26, 2017
As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.
Legal Planet
JULY 13, 2021
By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Some of these appear both feasible and necessary to achieve important sustainability and human welfare objectives.
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