Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible. That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. Despite current inaction, constitutional law in Colombia now recognizes the Atrato River as a living entity with rights. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 Not so in the modern day, however.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. We can safely assume that a reasonable public is not voting for the overthrow of the American government and the invasion and conquering of India and China for the sake of roughly 1.2ºC (from their respective emissions).

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. We can safely assume that a reasonable public is not voting for the overthrow of the American government and the invasion and conquering of India and China for the sake of roughly 1.2ºC (from their respective emissions).

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. A panel of the U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 6, 2016

Texas, however, has enacted a state law expressly preempting local authority over a number of drilling activities. In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. In 2014, St. Tammany Parish Government v. Welsh , 15-1152 (La.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, eco-labels illustrate powerful tools of consumer-driven environmental protection and show that green-washing can be stopped through soft law approaches. From 1990 to 2014, the contribution towards climate protection made by recycling paper, cardboard and cartons was upsized by a factor of 7.5, ISO standards. , Ecomark. ‘.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Arctic Law & Policy Institute, explains why. _. Certain states, including Alaska, wrote individualized versions the public trust into their constitutions, laws, and court decisions. The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. Adam Murray, of the U.W.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. And political power with it.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers. in Environmental Law. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Percival Effective March 1, 2023, the Chinese government abruptly lifted travel restrictions imposed to combat the COVID pandemic. During my sabbatical in 2008 I lived in Beijing and taught for a semester at the China University of Political Science and Law. Posted on September 25, 2023 by Robert V.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Long recognized in both American and English common law, the defense rests on the claim that an otherwise illegal act is legally excusable as necessary to avoid a greater harm. Upcoming cases will provide U.S. The Valve Turners blocked 15% of U.S. Can it work?

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So too have the overpumped groundwater aquifers in California’s San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys that belatedly prompted state political leaders to enact California’s first-ever groundwater regulatory program in 2014. aquifers.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Notwithstanding the assured political battles, one way to increase the price of carbon is through an economy wide carbon tax. federal government.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. On January 9, 2014, a chemical tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston, West Virginia, leaked into the Elk River. At first glance, though, existing laws would seem applicable to the spill at Freedom Industries.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 17, 2022

In February, Russian forces destroyed a dam that Ukrainians had built to restrict the flow of water in the canal after Russia overtook Crimea in 2014. The newly added incidents reveal the geographic and political dimensions of water-related violence in an era of social turmoil and ecological upheaval.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. In fact, there are important aspects of these recent price shocks that stem directly from the choices governments have made about how to price energy. Ras Laffan LNG terminal in Qatar. No Ordinary Markets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2014, CAISO launched the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM), a real-time energy market for the West that as of 2022 included 19 participants. This is especially useful when dealing with transmission across state lines that can often face political and financial obstacles. Governance would expand beyond state borders.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 22, 2022

That dam was blocking water from a Soviet-era canal that flows into Crimea, which Russia had wrested from its neighbor in 2014. The newly added incidents reveal the geographic and political dimensions of water-related violence in an era of social turmoil and ecological upheaval. In Ukraine, however, peace has already been shattered.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Later the company was exposed for using another tool called “Greyball” to evade police and government officials as well as unwanted customers. The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. Exxon Mobil Corp.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The British coal-mining industry, which in the 1980s comprised 175 working pits, had been judged by the then-Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, to be uneconomic. The resulting closures caused great unemployment and hardship in coal-mining areas, together with much social and political violence and unrest in 1984-5.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Later the company was exposed for using another tool called “Greyball” to evade police and government officials as well as unwanted customers. The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the wake of the BRICS Summit in South Africa, China’s recently-promulgated Foreign Affairs Law is worth a closer look. China’s new Foreign Affairs Law, which went into force on July 1 st , formalizes its foreign policy practice, codifying the goals, priorities and guiding principles of its engagement with the world.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2022

The nearly 23,000-member Gila River Indian Community is modernizing: adding to its group of casinos, preparing to expand its irrigated farm acres, and elevating its influence in Arizona’s politics and economy. GRIC received $274 per acre-foot from the state and federal governments. But another important waiver was included.

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