Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

He is pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord , a collaborative international agreement to slow global climate change. In the 21 st century new provisions in law and incentives designed to slow climate change have yielded a clean energy and clean vehicles production industry that is generating new jobs.

Earth Day

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

Due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations set by the Obama administration in 2015, and by the Biden administration in 2024, the coal ash disposal site at the Cayuga station was closed, and the ash removed. Yet across Indiana several other ash disposal sites remain operational, including F.B.

2015

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate. The scientific, legal, and political turmoil is weighing on Bayers top executives.

Biotechnology

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

Prior to the 2015 agreement, the Obama administration estimated that it could take as little as two to three months for Iran to produce enough uranium enriched to 90% to build a nuclear weapon. The attacks have undermined the rule of law and international diplomacy as key tools for nonproliferation and disarmament.

2003

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

As Canadians prepare to vote in the 2025 federal election, Carneys green credentialsonce a defining feature of his political risehave been tempered by economic realpolitik. Carney and his advisers would likely have identified that the Conservatives had used this as a political football, and they felt they had no choice.

2025

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Many activities involve multiple agencies, and that’s true for activities with support across the political spectrum. In 2015, Congress enacted FAST-41 to require federal agencies to more closely coordinate on EISs (and permitting more generally) for large projects in certain priority categories. Download as PDF

Regulations

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

Another judge temporarily blocked the Department of Energy’s plans to cut $405 million in annual research funds from universities, and a third federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately resume disbursing funds from the 2022 climate law and the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.

Earth Day

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Consider the story of Emma Rose Shore, a UCLA Law student and summer law fellow at the Emmett Institute. Which is why Dan McCarthy at Canary Media calls it “a law not of creation but of destruction.” “I think this reduction in staff is going to have echoes for years to come,” Dreyfus said. It’s future ones too.

Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

119-21 ) into law. The budget reconciliation process, an optional budget procedure that can alter spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit, was first established in the late 1970s and has been used dozens of times by both political parties since 1980. What exactly is the suspension of permanent law?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Gov. Shapiro Sued To Limit Future Electric Bill Hikes -- Inquirer: Shapiro Ready To Work With New Republican Administration As Long As It Doesnt Compromise Fundamental Freedoms -- Gov. Ohio- $2.98 Ohio- $2.98

Politics

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 4, 2025

The budget reconciliation process, an optional procedure that can alter spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit, was first established in the late 1970s and has been used dozens of times by both political parties since 1980. The expiration of that window is what prompts a new farm bill.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015. .

Regulations

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. They are often left to deal with climate effects on the ground, from wildfires to sea level rise to drought, and they can provide a political bulwark of sorts even as U.S.

Climate Change

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.

Nuclear Power

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

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Should we expect a political showdown and stormy fight on the floor ? 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.

2022

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.

Climate Change

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.

Paris Agreement

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.

Nuclear Power

Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Kahn & Kyle Barron, 2015. " The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs ," NBER Working Papers 21208, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. I do not believe that the answer here is a higher minimum wage or strict rent control laws.

2015

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It is rare that a law professor gets to say with some justification, “I told you so.” Or, more precisely, Mark Wu and I predicted the current conflict pitting the United States against the rest of the world in our 2015 Northwestern Law Review piece, “ Next Generation Trade and Environment Conflicts.”

Renewable Energy

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). That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition. But a lot has changed since then.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. as a vehicle to call for a sweeping transformation of politics, economics, and lifestyles to tackle environmental degradation and climate change. there is an urgent need for politics and economics to enter into a frank dialogue in the service of life, especially human life.” encyclical.

2015

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. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

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2015

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Riparian rights were inherited and adapted from British common law and are primarily used in rainy eastern states. California’s antiquated water rights system is not ready for climate change A 2015 study estimated that post-1914 appropriative water right allocations were approximately five times the state’s average annual runoff.

Government

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

Paris Agreement

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And the company maintains positions on just about every ag and water related board and commission in Kings, giving it considerable political heft. . million in 2015 and 2016 and another 35,000 acre feet of river water for an undisclosed amount in 2019. The company is run from its Pasadena offices by James W. No,” he said.

2009

A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

In addition, many of the world’s top car companies are German – think Volkswagen, BMW etc which have lobbied heavily against ambitious climate laws and a slow down to the transition to electric and hybrid mobility. It goes without saying that their number one priority should be getting out of coal as soon as possible. .

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is too early to know what specific policies are driving these reductions, but a return to implementing existing laws, supporting conservation efforts, and ensuring better protection and enforcement around Indigenous territories and protected areas all seem to be having a role in the results.

Deforestation

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

There arecurrently carbon standards in place for new power plants , which were set back in 2015; however, there are no standards for existing plants as neither the 2015 Clean Power Plan nor the 2019 Affordable Clean Energy Rule —both of which targeted existing facilities—remain in place.

Clean Air Act

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

A review of the literature by John Morrison Download report as a PDF Advocates of hate speech laws believe that because speech is a precursor to action, this in itself is proof of the relationship of cause and effect between hate speech and violence. If left unaddressed, it can lead to acts of violence and conflict on a wider scale.

2017

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Kingdom of Belgium & Others is a climate lawsuit brought in Belgium in 2015 modelled on the famous Dutch Urgenda case. In Urgenda , the Dutch courts considered that the unusual political consequences of their decisions should not prevent them from providing an effective remedy to the violation of citizens’ fundamental rights.

Climate Change

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Blog Posts New Addition to Foreign Ownership Law Trend: West Virginia Enacts Restriction on Foreign-Controlled Entities Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional FDA Updates: June 2025 Who Gets to Say? Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from June 2025.

Endangered Species Act

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

Renewable Energy

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP21 Observer Delegation. However, the facts about climate change are not being translated into political action. Finally, a 2015 study published in the. By Sara Barnowski. along with many.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Greenworks Law & Consulting LLC The following article first appeared on LinkedIn November 19, 2022 -- On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf quietly signed into law resurrecting the prospect of liquified natural gas ("LNG") export facilities at the Port of Philadelphia. By Lauren M. Williams, Esq., Williams, Esq.

Natural Gas