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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2011, the first lawsuit using the Rights of Nature provision was filed by the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature (GARN) and others against a construction company for building a road across Ecuador’s Vilcabamba River and dumping rubble into the river. Argentina : Asociación Civil por la Justicia Ambiental v. Can we reach this goal?

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Irrigation water used per bushel of corn has declined by nearly half since 1980, while greenhouse gases declined 31 percent. [19]

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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