Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The PUC was under no obligation to evaluate an energy project conceived of in 2012 the same way in 2022. This doctrine holds that the government has a special duty to consider the public interest when it makes decisions about key resources. Indeed, doing so would have betrayed its constitutional duty.” Lawsuits against oil companies.
Greenbuilding Law
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Many regulations will have to be promulgated to make all of this happen. The Maryland Department of the Environment has already begun drafting regulations and proposed regulations will first be circulated for public comment in winter 2023 with final regulations adopted in summer 2023.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 19, 2023
To address this financial deficit, governments, the private sector, and philanthropies announced the creation of a $1 billion fund to finance methane reduction initiatives in all sectors. Subnational governments of Brazil, Bolivia, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States are among the signatories of the coalition.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 17, 2021
Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 5, 2024
In 1998, the US government won a famous lawsuit against the tobacco companies. Government agencies, scientific journals, the media, and members of the public have a vital role to play in safeguarding scientific integrity and stopping the spread of disinformation.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. AB32 then provides an extensive list of factors that the board must consider in crafting regulation to implement the plan.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2023
Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability.
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