National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 04 Jun NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

A 2015 survey by UCS and the international climate disclosure organization CDP found that few companies were willing to disclose their memberships or discuss whether their public stance on climate change aligned with the groups they funded (associations are not required by law to disclose their members or boards of directors).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S. California Governor Jerry Brown in Bonn for the 2018 climate summit. states or other subnational goverments.

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National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. Share: Recent Posts Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. 5 U.S.C. §

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 requires federal agencies to adjust.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But people across the Colorado legal community, the broader Western water community, and a far-flung network that includes Berkeley Law staff, faculty, and alumni. Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. Justice Hobbs’ connections with Berkeley Law run deep. He got his JD here in 1971. I was lucky enough to be one of them. .

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Technically this shall be included in an amendment to the proposed Climate Law. According to the Communication, buildings and power generation can make the largest and most cost-efficient emissions reductions, in the order of 60% and more compared to 2015, to reach the 55% greenhouse gas emissions reduction target (p.8).

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Environmental Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 12 Jun The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 11, from June 12, 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Gavin Newsom quickly signed the bills into law, and companies will begin reporting in 2026. A recent analysis found that 75 percent of firms in the Fortune 500 will be subject to the California laws, and their size indicates most of them also would be covered by the proposed SEC rule.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Let’s dig into each bill and explore why California needs them to become law and how the bills could improve the water rights system. This bill would only affect those who violate existing law and does not introduce new restrictions on legal water rights holders. It also increases financial penalties to better discourage water theft.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

During the 2015-2016 El Nio cycle, it reported 200 cases of heat-related illnesses, including 2 fatalities. Climate litigation follows a similar path of accountability objectives, urging governments to fulfill their international climate law pledges, among other commitments. Other laws around the world do the same.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

2015 Accelerating Cost-Effective Green Stormwater Infrastructure: Learning From Local Implementation. Wheeler Institute for Water Law & Policy, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, p. And for further related work from our team see: Green Nylen N. & & Kiparsky M. Download as PDF.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Planning law has proven to be a useful tool for climate activists seeking to block or challenge new fossil fuel developments. Ireland has been a particular victim of this latter problem, with developers citing concerns over current planning laws as a reason for delays in constructing onshore wind farms, among other facilities.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

The role of traditional leadership in disaster management and disaster risk governance: A case of Ugu District Municipality by-laws. References 1. Coppola, D. Participants Governmental Disaster Management Agencies. Coppola, Introduction to International Disaster Management (Third Edition) (pp. Dube, E., & Munsaka, E. Emerald Insights.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. Since 2015, South Korea has had an emissions trading system that covers the power sector and industrial sources. Last year, South Korea promised to halt financing for coal projects in other countries immediately.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. This “supranational status” means that these treaties are above the “regular” laws in the legal hierarchy.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Act 101, the landmark 1988 recycling law that made Pennsylvania a leader in 1988, needs multiple updates to meet the demands of today’s economy. percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons in 2015 to 8.59 million tons in 2015 to 3.22 percent between 2015 to 2021-- 21.4 million tons to 15.6 million tons.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million For Drill Pad Landslide In Greene County [November 2015] -- Sunoco Pipeline Fined $59,000 For Pipeline Wetlands Violations By DEP [November 2015] -- DEP Assesses $374,000 In Penalties For Methane Gas Migration Violations [August 2015] -- DEP Assesses $8.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2019, 70 percent of Seattle residents lived within walking distance of a bus or train service running at least every ten minutes—up from 25 percent in 2015. Another important action is influencing how transportation funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is spent. State and federal policy supported these local initiatives.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A 2015 law, AB197, requires that the scoping plan discuss the following for each emission reduction measure: (a) The range of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions that result from the measure. AB32 then provides an extensive list of factors that the board must consider in crafting regulation to implement the plan.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

laws governing atmospheric methane removal (AMR) via soil amendments. Rapid and sustained reductions in human-driven methane emissions, which account for about 60% of the total, are critical to limiting warming in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement. law, especially federal environmental law.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

But from 2015-2020, the average was 16 per year. Houston also had so-called 500-year floods in 2015 and 2016. Lisa Grow Sun and I discuss the implications in a new paper , but here are a few of the key takeaways. Escalating impacts. From 1980 to 2020, there were an average of 7 billion-dollar events per year. It was a 500-year flood.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Though increasingly climate migrants to other countries are described as “ climate refugees ”, displacement by disasters and climate change is yet to be included in the definition of a refugee as established under international law. After that, he was deported to Kiribati in 2015 with his wife and children.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Not to be outdone, 19 Republican state attorneys general also joined the fray in August, falsely claiming that “woke” asset managers are politicizing their investments by adopting ESG criteria instead of focusing solely on financial returns, as required by law, at the expense of their state pension funds. (No

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

One water utility, Southern Water, was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping wastewater into waterways from 2010 to 2015. The pollution has sparked criticism from the public, prompting stricter laws from the government and promises from utilities to lower pollution. Sewage pollution is rampant in U.K. ON THE RADAR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The plants’ operating costs have been consistently higher than the average PJM market price of energy and capacity, and this difference accumulated to a loss of more than $900 million between 2015-2019 (see Table 4 here ). This law was at the center of likely the largest corruption and bribery scandal in Ohio’s history.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

When this photo was taken, in April 2015, the well at their nearby home had been dry for 18 months and they visited the depot twice a week for water. Could a state groundwater regulation law passed in 2014 prevent farmers who are cut off from surface water from pumping so much groundwater that household wells go dry?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While this reactor was initially intended to transition to mixed oxide (MOX) fuel by 2015, delays in development led China to continue relying on Russian fuel. Russian export laws and bilateral agreements with China explicitly prohibit the use of supplied materials for military purposes. The cooperation was extended in December 2016.

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Energy & the Law

MAY 24, 2023

In 2015, Apache failed to drill 20,000 feet in the North Block of the lease. The question for the Court: Did the North Block expire on December 31, 2015, or January 1, 2016? The Court applied the common-law default rule for describing time when parties use the words “from” or “after.” Your musical interlude.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2023

According to national averages between the years 2015 and 2017, among farming, fishing, and forestry workers, 19 percent are SNAP recipients. Food workers are the people who make sure food gets to our plates: they farm, process, transport, and package our food, then prepare it and sell it to us.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

And while the most recent satellite data showed that Corcoran has sunk only about four feet in some areas since 2015, a water management agency estimates the city will sink another six to 11 feet over the next 19 years. In just two sales in 2015 and 2016, one Fresno County water district bought 43,000 acre-feet of Boswell water for $43.6

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 1, 2022

February 2015: Contents of production tanks removed but tank bottoms containing sand, oil, and saltwater residue remain, leaving a noticeable area of stained soil. Here, the landowners agreed that no activity on the land could have caused contamination after February 2015, so the injury occurred then at the latest.

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New Scientist

JUNE 29, 2023

The most significant US climate funding law ever passed, the Inflation Reduction Act, is already having a impact, but it won't be enough for the nation to meet its targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement

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