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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

The goal of conferring rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive and whose rights are not violated. The Supreme Court declared that the Colombia Amazon accordingly was entitled to protection, conservation, maintenance and restoration. State of Colorado.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. The plaintiffs assert, among other arguments, that the environmental review for NWP 12 failed consider climate impacts. Chao , No. 1:19-cv-02826 (D.D.C.).

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