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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

As a result, the country lost half of its mature forest between 1940 and 1980, according to a 2016 report from the REDD+ initiative. As a result, Costa Rica began to implement stricter environmental regulations, new conservation policies and changes in the agricultural market. These initiatives must be executed before 2026.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. The 2028 deadline proposed in the less stringent alternative is more realistic, and is consistent with timelines under other federal regulations.

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Five Important Points About the “SAFE Vehicle Rule”

Law Columbia

transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ). The study makes clear, however, that much of this increase is attributable to the cost of complying with state regulations (i.e., That is equivalent to nearly 40 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions from the entire U.S. California’s Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate).

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Third District Affirms Judgment Upholding State Lands Commission’s Supplemental EIR For Desalination Plant Lease Modification, Rejects CEQA Claims That Commission Piecemealed Review And Should Have Assumed Lead Agency Status And Prepared A Subsequent EIR

CEQA Developments

The Commission initially authorized a 49-year lease of the site to Southern California Edison (SCE) in 1957, then approved an assignment from SCE and a subsequent 20-year lease to another entity (AES) expiring in 2026; in 2010, it approved a lease amendment adding real party Poseidon to the AES. City of Sacramento (2016) 5 Cal.App.5th

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

Herzog (former Emmett/Frankel Fellow at UCLA School of Law 2012-2016) and Sean H. There are no emissions-reduction requirements for other types of industrial emitters until May 2026 or later, and those future requirements, too, reflect proven controls already in use in many regions across the country. coal plants.

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Arizona’s Future Water Shock

Circle of Blue

Since 2016, GRIC has played a central role in storing over 370,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Mead, plus 130,000 more acre-feet this year to keep lake levels high enough to prevent a water shortage declaration more dire than the one the federal government issued last August. The earliest all of this could occur, Nabity says, is 2026.

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The New Methane Emissions Charge: One (Limited but Important) Stick in the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

The stick takes the form of a “methane emissions charge,” which EPA must collect from certain entities in the oil and natural gas sector, unless and until stringent regulations controlling the sector’s methane emissions are implemented. That sector is also affected by an important new “stick” created by the IRA.