Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Shen , a transportation program policy analyst, to talk about the program’s new equitable mobility work. Will the law help transit agencies deal with their looming budget crises? Yes, premature death.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. You’ve likely heard that the big annual United Nations climate conference is about to get underway in Glasgow, with nations around the world gathering together to try to advance international climate cooperation. states or other subnational goverments.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Currently, despite its relatively small population of about fifty million, it’s the world’s twelfth largest economy — about the same size as Russia’s economy. The EIA reports that: “Fossil fuel sources accounted for about 69% of South Korea’s electricity generation in 2019, and the share of nuclear power accounted for 25%.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 5, 2021

law, Amplify is responsible for the costs of containment, cleanup and damages to natural resources, including lost uses such as fishing, surfing and swimming. This raises a red flag about the structural integrity of both this pipeline and other offshore oil infrastructure off America’s coasts. Hold the polluters responsible.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 23, 2021

Once again, Arnold & Porter was named as one of the "Best Law Firms for Women" by Working Mother magazine. The 2021 list recognizes 50 law firms that use best practices to recruit, retain, promote, and develop women lawyers. This marks the eighth time Arnold & Porter has been named to the annual list.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Before transitioning to Executive Director, Bomstein ran the Council's team of attorneys and law clerks, which is active in litigation and the regulatory process. Bomstein has a degree in mathematics from Cornell University and a law degree from Columbia Law School.

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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. Deforestation in the Amazon decreased significantly (by over 70%) during Lula’s last two terms, while it jumped (about 60%) under President Bolsonaro. candidate at Berkeley Law. And somehow historical.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On the other hand, government regulation is about making hard choices – and the structure of the Clean Air Act leaves us without a mechanism to make those hard choices. first appeared on Law and the Environment. Otherwise, the phrase “adequate margin of safety” would have little meaning. Still whistling in the wind , I fear.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2022

The report explains that the high emitters, the US and the European Union (EU) which are both pledging net-zero emissions by 2050, are only on a trajectory to reduce emissions based on 2015 levels by 27% by 2030. Of the 100 countries with net-zero carbon neutrality targets currently only 14 have net-zero targets signed into law.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Under existing law, municipalities are authorized to negotiate agreements for a host fee to be paid to the municipality. DEP also hosted a public hearing in July 2016 to take questions from residents about the application. In January 2018, all three agencies held a public meeting to share the results of the study with residents.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

The groundwater adjudication process, which is governed by SB 226 and AB 1390 (2015), determines how groundwater rights in a basin are allocated. Guest contributors Adrianne Davies, Owen McAleer, and Gabi Rosenfeld are UCLA Law students (2L). This ruling is an adjudication.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. The adjustment is about quantifying the statistical effect of, among other things, cloud formation on climate, within a plausible range.

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A “fiduciary duty” apples to a person who occupies a position of particular confidence towards another and requires a higher standard of behavior than in just about any other relationship. From 2011 to 2015 he arranged to hire companies owned by his close friend Robertson to perform post-frac drillout operations.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . It’s such a sensitive topic that Hughes cancelled a scheduled interview about the project and its water supply. . One example is Sterling Ranch near Littleton, Colorado.

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Acoel

MARCH 27, 2023

Like a predecessor rule in 2015 which attempted to broaden the definition of WOTUS, numerous states and industry groups have challenged the 2023 WOTUS rule. Texas, et al. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., 3:23-cv-00017, March 19, 2023. 3:23-cv-32 (D.N.D.), 44 and Kentucky v.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The four wells that are part of this announcement were list as abandoned by DEP since April 14, 2015.] This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 14, 2015 - report not available, but noting ‘no adverse event or action reported.] operates 110 conventional wells.] [The

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. There was lots of talk about a ‘transition’ at that time, but I didn’t know of anyone implementing it. When Canada’s federal government first started talking about legislation to support a just transition – I must admit, I was hopeful.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

And to the west, in Mendocino County, coastal towns fret about dry taps, while the Russian River is so depleted that state regulators have told grape growers not to withdraw any water from it. Thousands of wells in the state went dry in the previous drought , in 2014 and 2015, mostly in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Tammany zoning ordinance prohibiting hydraulic fracturing was preempted under State law. [4] Welsh , 2015-1152 (La. To learn more about carbon capture and sequestration and the Louisiana regulatory framework surrounding it, see A Primer on CCUS Regulation in Louisiana. Tammany Parish Government v. 3/9/16); 199 So.3d

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

Negrin is a graduate of Rutgers University School of Law. Al Dia quoted Negrin as saying about his nomination, “I am humbled that Governor-Elect Shapiro has entrusted me with the great responsibility of leading this Administration’s efforts to protect our Commonwealth’s air, land, and water. Click Here for her bio.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The topic has steadily gained traction in international climate negotiations since then, with “loss and damage” first appearing in a negotiated text at COP13 in 2007 and later forming the “third pillar” of climate action in the Paris Agreement in 2015. In 2015, prior to COP21 in Paris, John Kerry framed the U.S.’s In the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For several years, headlines about Amazon deforestation have all been bad. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. Q: What do these developments tell us about the role of elections in climate progress? percent compared to last August.

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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. We’ve recently learned about the need to have a public health system that’s strong enough to respond to abnormal threats, not just the everyday ones. Escalating impacts. Interestingly, nearly half of them were in Texas.)

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Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2023

This report, which forms part of the Sabin Center’s broader Climate Law and Finance Initiative , provides a toolkit to help academics, attorneys, insurance practitioners, and industry regulators model (re)insurer climate litigation risk. The report was authored by Martin Lockman, Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A determined woman with a keen mind, Taylor knows farming, environment, water, minerals, education, and a lot more about Lenawee County where she lives. After sounding the alarm in 2000 about water contamination and odor from new CAFOs in Lenawee County, she developed the water sampling program. . About half of the 1.3

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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. A rough estimate from the Public Policy Institute of California found that if groundwater levels decline at the same rate as in the last drought, about 2,700 wells could go dry in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

Disclosure of detailed information about their source, use, and impact is vital to investors’ decision-making and evaluation of companies’ exposure to climate risks. For investors concerned about climate change, it doesn’t get more material than that! Take the oil and gas industry.

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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). This step should take about a month. Palau and the Marshall Islands spearheaded a similar effort about a decade ago.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

About a third of the man’s left arm is dressed in blood-stained gauze. But as Mikaila walked in the direction of the herders to complain about the disturbance, several arrows rained down on him. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

Mongabay reports that between 2015 and 2022, more than 200 people have died from drownings, cave-ins, and landslides. According to Mongabay, “today, about 20 remain compared to over 100 ten years ago.” . Flush with Cash, State Lawmakers Consider Water Risks — Water is poised for prominence this year in state law and policy.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

I encounter such pessimism among the young about their future. Kahn, 2015. " Such reduced form papers provide insights about how future climate shocks will affect our economy and our quality of life if we fail to adapt. Such estimates are useful but they are not "laws of physics". With that preamble, let's begin.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

There were 2 violations in 2017; -- Howard Drilling : There was 1 violation in 2015; These companies also reported road spreading their oil and gas well wastewater. Read more here.] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported DEP has less than $15 per well available to plug the over 100,500 active conventional oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania.

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Law Columbia

MAY 4, 2023

Credit: Ilmi Granoff In September 2015, then Bank of England Governor Mark Carney gave a landmark speech on the “ Tragedy of the Horizon.” Capital investment today is therefore a financial decision the economics of which are predicated upon forecasts about a decade or so out.

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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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