Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. So in August of 1977, when the nation’s coal mine cleanup law went into effect, it reflected the market’s optimism. To enforce cleanup, the law allowed states to revoke mining permits, a prized commodity. . In the eastern U.S., Photo © U.S.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.
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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.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 12, 2023
2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars. 2017 Trump announces U.S. EPA approves waiver for California to regulate CO2 from new cars. 2014 Supreme Court decides UARG v.
CEQA Developments
AUGUST 23, 2021
As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. The proposed amendments relied on the 1999 MNDs and 2012 addendum, with no additional CEQA review or mitigation deemed necessary by the County. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.”
Legal Planet
JUNE 14, 2021
And according to an MIT/Hoover website , by 2012 Pentagon spending “on energy research, development, testing, and demonstration alone was $1 billion—though even this was but 1 percent of its total innovation budget.”. Each of these programs received at least a $31 million plus-up over FY 2017.”.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
California seeks to create a fund to pay for recovery from extreme events and for mitigation and adaptation efforts (without supplanting the climate damage lawsuits filed by eight California communities against the fossil fuel industry since 2017). It is not clear exactly what influence ExxonMobil had over the IPCC at that time.
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