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Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
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Environmental Europe
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Karmenu Vella (@KarmenuVella) December 7, 2016. Finalised in March 2016, this review largely found, again, that the directives were fit for purpose. Indeed, until a previous draft was leaked in June 2016, no public discussions were made of its findings.
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Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Flags of the 197 parties to the UNFCCC outside the blue zone at COP22. For the last two weeks, representatives of almost 200 countries have been in Marrakech for the 22 nd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP22.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, with the King of Morocco and President of the COP, at the High Level Segment on Tuesday.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 12, 2016
A Nissan LEAF electric car on display in the green zone. The first week of COP22 – the 22 nd meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Marrakech – is drawing to a close.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The Marrakech Pavilion where COP22 and CMA1 plenary sessions are held. As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently attending COP22 – the 22 nd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – in Marrakech.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
The ‘Little Sun’ solar lamp distributed to participants at COP22. Morocco isn’t often thought of as an environmental leader. But, having spent the last few days in Marrakech, I now realize that it should be.
Eco Lawyers
JUNE 23, 2016
At about 4:00 pm on June 23, 2016, an aggressive fire exploded near Lake Isabella in Kern County. Dubbed the Erskine Fire, up to 80 homes were destroyed within the first 4 hours of it burning with 2,500 acres being consumed.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
In a July 2016 report , the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs described climate change as the “single biggest threat to development.” Last week saw the opening of the 71 st session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Law Columbia
MARCH 25, 2016
The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ). Jessica Wentz. Associate Director and Fellow.
Eco Lawyers
JUNE 24, 2016
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Eco Lawyers
MAY 25, 2016
LONG BEACH, Calif. Today, the City of Long Beach, Gomez Trial Attorneys , and Baron & Budd filed the seventh lawsuit of its kind against Monsanto for PCB contamination of Long Beach’s city storm water and the Port of Long Beach.
Eco Lawyers
JANUARY 17, 2016
Gomez Environmental Law Represents Seattle and 5 Other Cities Against Monsanto for PCB Water Contamination. Gomez Environmental Law and Baron & Budd recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of the City of Seattle against Monsanto Company for PCB contamination of city storm water and urban run-off.
Environmental Europe
OCTOBER 27, 2016
After decades of debate on where – and whether – to expand airport capacity in south-eastern England, the UK government announced two days ago that it would favour building a third runway at Heathrow Airport. This option, highly criticised on environmental grounds (notably due to the air pollution caused by road transport to the airport) has been presented by Prime Minister Theresa May as key to show the world that the UK is ‘open for business’ after Brexit.
Law Columbia
JANUARY 8, 2016
6-27, 2016?. Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship. Columbia Law School. New York, New York. May 2 ?6-27, This 4th? Annual Sabin Colloquium will allow junior environmental law scholars to present early-stage work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior scholars and from each other. Eligible applicants are pre-tenure professors, fellows, visiting assistant professors, and other junior scholars in similar academic positions.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 12, 2016
2016 Report. The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Beth Bootz. In the face of these threats, the COP has taken action. At the end of COP21, decision. 1/CP.21.
Vermont Law
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. Most recently, on September 3, 2016 the United States and China honored their earlier agreement by depositing their instruments of ratification with the United Nations to.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 19, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Jenny Leech. Display at India’s COP Pavilion. This year, the COP demonstrated the priority of climate justice by recognizing the first official. Climate Justice Day. on the UNFCCC Programme.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Jonas Reagan. Haiti after Hurricane Matthew. Loss and Damage. L&D) includes the permanent loss of land, culture, and human life and will escalate existing tensions over increasingly scarce resources. This tension will ultimately incite conflict in many parts of the world.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Miranda Jensen. International aviation emissions are not explicitly addressed under the Paris Agreement, but their successful regulation nevertheless relies on the same elements of transparency and global stocktake as in Articles 13 and 14 of the Agreement. Jos Delbeke offers his perspective on ICAO’s CORSIA at COP22.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Roxana-Andreea Mastor. Julio Cordano on behalf of Chile emphasized the implementation gap now present in the Paris Agreement. Although the oceans are included in the. Paris Agreement. there has been no implementation endeavor.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Tori Scozzaro. The United Nations weather agency recently announced that the past five years have been the. hottest on record. with increasing evidence showing that this is man-made climate change. Thus, the urgency for solutions increases here at COP22 where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (. UNFCCC. )
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Hannah Solomon. One panelist’s presentation stood out in particular. Kittisak Rattanakrajangsri. , a panelist from the. Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation. AIPP), presented on holistic land use and the livelihoods of indigenous peoples. Kittisak told the story of the Pgakeuyaw people in Thailand.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Amy Pickering. Women disproportionately experience the. harmful effects. of climate change. The majority of the world’s poor are women, and more women rely on climate vulnerable natural resources for their livelihood.
Vermont Law
JULY 25, 2016
the data trespass laws in February, 2016 to limit their scope to private lands. On July 6, 2016, the U.S. Summary. : In 2015, the Wyoming Legislature passed two new laws creating criminal and civil causes of action for trespassing to collect resource data. Over the last year, the laws have undergone intense public scrutiny, culminating with several NGOs suing Wyoming to have the laws repealed on First Amendment grounds for restricting environment-based speech. By Hannah Solomon.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Beth Bootz. Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press. Earlier [in October], Hurricane Matthew left a path of destruction, ravaging Haiti and the southeastern coast of the United States. In Haiti, the. death toll. is uncertain, with some estimates in the hundreds or thousands of people.
Vermont Law
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Summary. Good samaritan food laws across the country provide liability protection for those who donate food. Unfortunately, families who depend on such donations pay a dramatic cost if they become ill because of simple negligence. Sarah Munger. In 2010, the United States wasted an estimated 133 billion pounds of post-harvest food. Of that, 43 billion pounds of waste occurred in the retail sector and 90 billion pounds occurred at the consumer level.
Vermont Law
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Summary. While many law students graduate and become litigators, judges, or an attorney who plays another role in the judicial branch, some law students set their sights on the other two branches of government – the legislative and executive branches. We need lobbyists and policy advisors to assist our legislators so that the science necessary to make effective environmental rules and regulations can be codified. By Elizabeth Smith.
Vermont Law
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Summary. : If there is one thing the fossil fuel industry, the government, and climate change activists might agree on it is this: in the end it all comes down to money. Oil, gas and coal companies, and their investors, are terrified of leaving fossil fuels in the ground. As to issue of climate change as a whole, the industry is providing a product utilized by everyone, and companies like Exxon posit that they, and their investors, will be paying the full burden when all comes to bear.
Vermont Law
JULY 14, 2016
On March 16, 2016, the Senate rejected the DARK Act. By Bonnie Smith. On the evening of July 7—one week after Vermont celebrated its labeling law for genetically engineered (GE) foods going into effect—the U.S. Senate voted 63-30 to approve a federal GE food “labeling” bill. Today, the House of Representatives voted 306-117 to approve the bill.
Vermont Law
AUGUST 23, 2016
Summary. : In 2011, the city of Munroe Falls, Ohio sought to prevent Beck Energy Corporation from drilling until the company complied with the city’s relevant municipal ordinances. The citizens voted to create an ordinance that would ban hydraulic fracturing from the city’s territory. Subsequent cases challenged such ordinances, and such cases attempted to answer whether the city’s ordinances were a valid exercise of the city’s home-rule power.
Vermont Law
AUGUST 10, 2016
By Gabriela Steier and Madhvvi Mehta. What are Eco-Labels? Eco-labels are soft-policy examples of progressive environmental policy with a consumer-empowering component. In fact, eco-labels illustrate powerful tools of consumer-driven environmental protection and show that green-washing can be stopped through soft law approaches. ISO standards. ,
Vermont Law
MAY 3, 2016
on April 18, 2016. Summary. This post originally appeared in the. Oxford Human Rights Blog. The systemic collapse of the U.S. coal extraction industry has scarcely been of benefit to the subordinated Appalachian citizenry. However, tangible socio-legal progress may be achieved in the Appalachian region vis-à-vis a critical human rights approach to environmental justice issues. By Nicholas F. Stump. .
Vermont Law
JUNE 28, 2016
Summary. Food waste is a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. By encouraging food donation and streamlining food-recovery policies the federal government can build a national framework to combat the massive accumulation of food waste and begin to change people’s food-waste habits. By Bonnie Smith. Every year Americans punt enough food to fill 730 football. stadiums. Imagine 730 football stadiums brimming with rotting food.
Vermont Law
JUNE 15, 2016
Summary. With climate change looming in the background of all international affairs, issues involving economic justice are often not given appropriate consideration. Climate refugees are a reality and will increase in volume as the climatic changes continue to reshape our planet. The intersection of human rights and environmental law must be considered if international governmental bodies wish to effectively address these issues. By Mahmudul Hasan.
Vermont Law
JUNE 1, 2016
Summary. Women have emerged as the most influential figures in the UN’s Convention on climate change. Female diplomats from Saudi Arabia and New Zealand have been elected to co-chair the fledgling APA, which develop guidelines pursuant to the recent Paris Agreement. By Bonnie Smith. Significantly, Christiana Figueres, affectionately nicknamed the “Climate Queen” at SB44, stepped down from her six-year tenure as Executive Secretariat of the UNFCCC and . welcomed Patricia Espinosa.
Vermont Law
JUNE 1, 2016
Summary. Parties to the UNFCCC gathered over the last two weeks for their mid-year meeting in Bonn, Germany to attempt to translate the recent treaties into substantive government policies. At center stage, was the recent Paris Agreement and its future effects as the parties begin to merge its elements with the UNFCCC’s Kyoto protocol and other pre-2020 pledges. By Tracy Bach. The Paris Agreement seized the center stage for at least a third of SB44’s agenda, given the number of.
Vermont Law
MAY 17, 2016
Summary. Conscious consumption is each individual’s responsibility. Understanding what we consume and how we facilitate the commoditization of life is a necessity if we are to promote the modification of social values to include holistic stewardship of our planetary resources. By Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD.
Vermont Law
APRIL 18, 2016
Summary. Wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is not well-regulated in the United States, even though regulations exist at federal and state/local levels. This author recently published an article in which he argues the need for a federal commission, similar to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to regulate fracking wastewater (link provided in the text below). The following is a taste of the author’s arguments from his article. By Curtis Morrison.
Vermont Law
APRIL 4, 2016
Summary. Cyberattacks pose obvious threats to infrastructure and financial institutions, but they also create major environmental threats. Any dam, chemical plant, or nuclear power plant that uses computers is a savvy hacker away from being an environmental disaster. By Mark Latham. Cyberattacks occur today with alarming frequency. They can happen anywhere a computer performs some function, which today means any and everywhere.
Vermont Law
MARCH 22, 2016
Summary: Prior to the Conference of Parties in Paris, this blog shared weekly stories about the intricacies of the compact that would come from the Conference. The environmental law world buzzed with optimism as late November neared. Less than four months from the release of the Paris agreement, Professor Mark Latham does not share the optimism expressed by others.
Vermont Law
MARCH 2, 2016
Summary: . After Cecil the Lion was killed during a trophy hunt last summer, Congress proposed the CECIL Act. The CECIL Act has the potential to create a new layer of protection for candidate species. The study which is being requested as part of this bill may help determine whether or not trophy hunting actually benefits endangered species conservation. By Elizabeth Smith.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Summary: An Ohio jury awards $1.6 million after finding DuPont liable for dumping toxic chemicals into drinking water near its Washington Works Plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The Environmental Protection Agency has yet to set a definitive standard allowable for the chemical, C8, in drinking water even though it is hazardous to human health, making it difficult to hold companies responsible for their actions. By Lauren Gates. On October 7, 2015, an Ohio jury awarded Carla Marie Bartlett $1.6
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