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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2016 SB 32. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. 451962/2016 (N.Y. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker , Nos. 14-35806, 14-35811 (9th Cir. opinion Oct. Pritzker , Nos. 16-35380, 16-35382 (9th Cir.

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Nature Directives ‘Fit for Purpose’: a turning point for EU policy dismantling?

Environmental Europe

Karmenu Vella (@KarmenuVella) December 7, 2016. Additionally, increasing the importance of ‘modernising’ existing legislation over producing new legislation, raised alarm among civil society , afraid that the better regulation/modernisation agenda was in fact a way to pursue policy dismantling.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. Although politics is a new world for her, she has been involved in a number of different capacities for some time. All this comes amid a broader national debate over the creation of the country’s new constitution.

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Recent INTERPOL Reforms Provide Insight Into Strategies for Challenging Improper Red Notices

Arnold Porter

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]] 19, 2016). ]].

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Politically powerful farm lobbies, preferring voluntary measures to curb nutrient pollution, have held off oversight under the Clean Water Act and other statutes.

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