Legal Planet
AUGUST 15, 2023
Montana represents a sweeping victory for lead plaintiff Rikki Held and her 15 co-plaintiffs–all minors when the case was filed in 2020. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v. legal history.
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. It must be dismantled and rebuilt with a co-governing body, where downstream impacted Indigenous communities have policy-making authority and leadership roles,” said Jesse Cardinal, Executive Director at Keepers of the Water.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 19, 2022
The regulations (known as Advanced Clean Cars II) deliver on a commitment Governor Newsom made in a 2020 executive order and build on decades of emissions reduction programs from CARB. Many local governments are already developing comprehensive zero-emission transportation plans, but only some–like Oakland –are prioritizing equity throughout.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 5, 2023
Aerial view of Melsisi village in Vanuatu on April 13, 2020, a week after Tropical Cyclone Harold made landfall on the island nation. Vanuatu , vulnerable to the effects of climate change and global warming, brings the question of other governments’ climate inaction to the world’s highest court. billion natural gas project.
Circle of Blue
MAY 3, 2023
Amidst drought, farmers in southern Taiwan are being paid not to grow crops as the government reserves water for semiconductor production. Faced with a decision, the government is prioritizing factories over farmers, and subsidizing the latter to not grow crops, NPR reports.
MGKF Law
MARCH 29, 2023
In September 2020, I wrote a Litigation Blog post about the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Nanouk v. 2020), which considered whether the so-called discretionary function exception barred tort claims against the government in connection with its lengthy, haphazard cleanup of a PCB hotspot near a Cold War-era military installation in Alaska.
Smith Enviorment
DECEMBER 14, 2023
December 14, 2023. General Assembly returned to a very aggressive effort to influence environmental rules in 2023. Farm Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 582) and the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023 (House Bill 600) all contained provisions weakening existing environmental protections and in some cases preventing adoption of new standards.
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