Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

This report (at page 13) notes that in 2017-18, California and the federal government conducted about 80,000 acres of prescribed burns in the state. More broadly, the state treated over one million acres of land for fire risk in 2023, an increase of 25% in terms of total treatment acreage from 2021.

2017

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

This process mirrors China’s broader governance style—flexible and adaptive rather than rigidly planned. For years, Beijing had relied on SOEs to manage their own overseas ventures, assuming its deluge of financial support for the projects ensured that host governments would implement them smoothly.

2011

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plants will also explore the growing role of carbon credit markets in incentivizing the plugging of orphaned and abandoned wells. DEP Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Well Plugging Grant Applications Due Dec.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2025

The drop, months in the making, prompted the aquifer’s governing body to impose its strictest level of water cuts. The most destructive hurricanes of the last two decades – Sandy (2012), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), Ida (2021), Ian (2022), Helene (2024) – arrived on or after Katrina’s initial landfall date of August 25.

Rainforest

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. Fishing is vital to the Cambodian economy, representing 7%-8% of the country’s GDP in 2021. According to a 2023 government report, 54.2% A young man with injuries from a landmine begs on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Government

A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2025

The role of Vanuatu The background for this week’s lawsuit dates back to September 2021. And it singled out the failure of governments to curb fossil fuel production and consumption as a wrongful act”, she said. The Court argued that action on climate change is the key to guaranteeing those rights.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

CETA was established in 2021. CETA is tasked with improving transmission planning coordination with neighboring states and RETA’s MOU with the federal government can assist with transmission permitting. CETA ’s role and authority is similar to RETA’s.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2025

In 2021, The Government of Canada made a bold and necessary commitment to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the oil and gas industry – the largest source of GHG pollution in Canada. It’s time for the new federal government to follow through on its promise and finalize the oil and gas emissions cap.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

These advisory opinions cap a remarkable four-year run of advances for the right to a healthy environment, beginning with its recognition in Resolution 48/13 of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in October 2021.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since its launch in 2021, the grant program has awarded nearly $21 million to 64 projects. The SRBC is seeking projects focused on reducing or offsetting CU and improving the sustainability of both streamflows and groundwater during critical low flow periods including-- -- Water storage and release projects (e.g.,

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

As a physician, it alarms me that a government regulator could be ignoring evidence. The 2021 final evaluation decision concluded risks were “acceptable.” “We need the health minister to send a clear signal that this is not acceptable, and order an independent review of the environmental harms from neonic insecticides.” “As

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Photo credit: Government of British Columbia Yes, taking action to mitigate and adapt to climate change requires spending now. The cost of BC’s 2021 season of climate disasters, which included the heat dome, rampant wildfires, widespread flooding and dangerous landslides, was estimated to have cost more than $17 billion.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. Fishing is vital to the Cambodian economy, representing 7%-8% of the country’s GDP in 2021. According to a 2023 government report, 54.2% A young man with injuries from a landmine begs on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Government

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

Thats why Prime Minister Trudeaus 2021 promise to deliver a net-zero electricity grid by 2035 was important. To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects. To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

This suggests that courts should afford substantial deference to agencies in the context of standalone NEPA claims that do not implicate the agency’s obligations under the substantive statutory framework governing the action. 1984; Knobe & Shapiro (2021). [4] 3] See Prosser & Keeton on Torts, 5th Ed.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Thank You to Our Partners and the Public As we celebrate 30 years, DEP thanks our fellow Commonwealth agencies, local governments, businesses, nonprofits, academic institutions, and residents who have joined in our work. billion to date for reclamation efforts.

Environmental Protection

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

The efforts made by the government to reduce the huge forest losses experienced since the 1970s appear to be paying off. The scientists voice concerns that we are alarmingly off track from the commitment signed by 140 world leaders in 2021 at the COP26 UN climate summit, which pledged to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030.

2024

Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. Now, with improved legal support, local governments may be more empowered to reconsider those building decarbonization ordinances.

Law

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The US only exited the Paris Agreement days after Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential Election and swiftly joined it again once Biden was inaugurated in January 2021. However, he can make several technologies, such as solar, less economically viable by putting in place import tariffs and cancelling government incentives and programmes.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In Switzerland, an association of senior women filed a case against the government of Switzerland before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) based on the impacts of the heat waves on the health of these older women. The question we ask in this blog is what litigation can do in these situations. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

Climate Change

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A 2021 EPA report demonstrated that low income, minority, undereducated, and elderly people are disproportionately affected by climate change compared to people outside those groups. Despite the tremendous harm that CAFOs do, the federal government does not effectively regulate methane emissions from CAFOs.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2025

The Ontario government has taken the brakes off of waste reduction in the province to paint growing piles of garbage as inevitable. TAKE ACTION: Tell the Ontario government you oppose expanding the Brampton waste incinerator! TAKE ACTION: Tell the provincial government to save the Ontario alcohol deposit-return program!

Waste

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

Conclusion In the face of recent backtracking on climate commitments by governments (e.g. Yet in light of the profound threats to human and more-than-human life posed by the climate emergency, the IACtHR’s reasoning seems unassailable. Actions that jeopardize the future of life on Earth should be prohibited by law.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Information provided by the Georgia MMRC to ProPublica reporters determined that the deaths were preventable, yielding a backlash by the state government, which dismissed all members of the 32-person committee. Suppressing scientific investigation costs lives.

Politics

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 12, 2025

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report later confirmed that USDA did not follow best practices for evaluating the relocation, underestimated costs, and failed to account for the massive attrition and disruptions to agency operations. As of September 2024, ERS staffing levels remained 15% below pre-location levels.

2019

Circle of Blue

MAY 21, 2025

These areas have been targeted by both the American and Canadian governments, along with impacted local governments, for cleanup and restoration. As new industries and governments take shape, efforts to bring Thunder Bays shoreline back to a state of good health are even more critical. coli bacteria and industrial contamination.

Conservation

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Field preemption occurs when a state (or the federal government) occupies the regulation of a certain subject matter so extensively as to exclude local governments from regulating in that area. It is one type of preemption, the legal doctrine where a higher law displaces a lower-level law.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We can support states, local, and Sovereign Nation governments who want to adopt cumulative impacts analysis, and we can support the community advocacy to this end. Tribal , state, and local governments have been leading the way in cumulative impacts policies and method developments. The road to get here has been long.

Environmental Protection

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

States and local governments are required to take steps to attain the standards 5. Making air quality forecasts available to state and local governments and to communities across the country. Providing grants to governments and communities to help monitor and reduce air pollution and enforcing safeguards.

Ozone

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The MCWA applied for and received its first grant through the Lehigh Valley Greenways in 2021 to complete work in cooperation with Northampton County at Gertrude Fox Conservation Area in Hanover Township. This unique park follows the creek along Biery’s Bridge Road east of Center Street in north Bethlehem,” Cook explained.

Conservation

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Many fish populations have been negatively impacted by a changing climate and major episodic events like marine heatwaves, such as the disappearance of the Bering Sea snow crab in 2021. But what about the fish stocks that have increased in abundance as a result of changing ocean conditions?

Ocean

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

SGMAs framework provides local government with relative flexibility to manage its groundwater resources, but gives state agencies oversight authority and the right to intervene. 2021-69012-35916] from the U.S. Read the Issue Brief and download the Supplemental Information. Environmental Protection Agency, Assistance Agreement no.

2014

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.] Read more here.]

2014

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Recognizing these concerns, Greenland’s 2021 elections became widely known as the mining election, where the Inuit Ataqatigiit party campaigned against uranium mining. Upon taking power, the government fulfilled its promise by passing legislation banning uranium extraction, effectively halting the Kvanefjeld project.

Environmental Protection

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reforming Oceanic Governance: A Department of Oceans by Joseph Lepak Current federal ocean governance is spread across a myriad of federal agencies in different departments and the time has come to bring them all together. Governing this vast area, four agency mandates prioritize oceans, while other mandates involve oceans.

Ocean

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

ISRs are especially powerful because local air districts dont have very many effective ways to tackle pollution from mobile sources, which is typically the province of the federal government. With President Trump promising to roll back federal pollution standards, ISRs are on the verge of becoming the hot new thing in some policy circles.

Air Pollution