Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Illinois energy landscape Illinois passed the landmark Climate and Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) in September 2021. CEJA also expanded incentives for wind and solar power; however, the law did not include significant provisions for energy storage deployment. 2025 is also a pivotal year for CEJA implementation in Illinois.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Driving away from state climate targets Transportation has been the biggest sector contributing to climate change in Massachusetts practically every year since the earliest emissions inventory for 1990 and most recently has contributed 38% of state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021. Fast forward to 2021.

2018

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Additionally, the Supreme Court found that when considering whether an agency’s NEPA report complies with the law, reviewing courts should grant “substantial deference” to the agency. National Environmental Policy Act NEPA was signed into law on January 1, 1970. Case Background The plaintiffs in Seven Cty. Infrastructure Coal.

2013

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

million directly from the animal agriculture industry, according to his 2021 CV. Guest Contributor Alexander Wood is a rising 2L at UCLA School of Law. The CLEAR center was established in 2019 with a $2.9 million multi-year gift from the Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFeeder), the nonprofit arm of the AFIA.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 1 PA Bulletin announcing that Impecca is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By Ken Sansone and Valentina Marastoni-Bieser, SL Environmental Law Firm Farmers, the backbone of our food supply, could be facing an invisible enemy that lurks in their soil and water: PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals.” at the SL Environmental Law Firm in San Francisco. Upcoming Event -- Penn State Extension Hosts Dec.

Regulations

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As noted in a 2021 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report , these approaches have the potential for substantial carbon sequestration, but key questions remain about their efficacy, benefits, and risks. The post Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal first appeared on Climate Law Blog.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

DEP inspections include both scheduled and unscheduled on-site visits to permitted facilities, as well as document reviews to verify compliance with environmental laws and regulations. DEP also issued 495 compliance orders, consent agreements and took other enforcement actions against conventional operators.

2024

Circle of Blue

APRIL 16, 2025

The LEMA was locally designed but came with the force of law. Golden is working on an economic analysis for Wichita County, which established a LEMA in 2021. In 2013, they became the first group in the state to adopt a new conservation tool, called a Local Enhanced Management Area. Last year representatives from the office of Gov.

2013

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

Most of these NEPA decisions entail mixed questions of law and fact. That framework is consistent with the tort law principles noted above; however, as other legal scholars have noted , the majority’s application of those principles is somewhat incoherent and inconsistent with tort law application.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

JUNE 16, 2025

Tiny babies and a big idea Tian says the inspiration for this study, which is detailed in Nature Chemical Engineering , came from a visit he made to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in 2021. My colleagues and I envisioned a contact-free system capable of detecting disease-related molecules in air.

Cooling

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

billion to date for reclamation efforts.

Environmental Protection

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Such a database actually went online September 2021. These EISs are written at great expense and contain massive amounts of observational data about air and water quality, species abundance, soil conditions, traffic levels, and much else. Then theyre put on the physical or digital shelf, forgotten and basically impossible to research.

2003

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

” states Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director and Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association. The 2021 final evaluation decision concluded risks were “acceptable.” The PMRA proposed to end its use in agriculture to protect aquatic ecosystems but later backtracked on the proposed ban.

Regulations

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

the countyy is using attribution science alongside alleged violations of state law to hold oil companies responsible for the 69 deaths associated with heat wave events during 2021 and 2022 i n the county alone. In County of Multnomah v. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

Climate Change

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. In 2021, a landowner in South Dakota filed a lawsuit alleging that Swampbuster was a violation of the Commerce Clause. 5 U.S.C. § To determine whether the plaintiff in CTM Holdings, LLC v.

2013

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. Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat more effectively than carbon dioxide. CAFOs are significant methane emitters through their manure.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

However, the IACtHR went further in AO-32/25 , pushing the boundaries of international human rights law by articulating an expansive conception of the rights of Nature as implicit in, or linked to, the right to a healthy environment because of the vital importance of healthy ecosystems and biodiversity that “make life on the planet possible” (para.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

MAY 7, 2025

State Greenwashing Litigation: California Taking Steps Forward as Federal Enforcement Wanes By Matthew McGovern On September 23, 2024, the Attorney General of California sued ExxonMobil (Exxon) and its subsidiaries, alleging violations of misleading advertisement, misleading environmental marketing, and unfair competition laws.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

These efforts to hinder examination of the impacts of strict state abortion laws on pregnant people are a political play that only serves to put women and families at risk of even greater harm. Ambers death was attributed to delayed care, whereas Candi felt she could not seek medical care altogether due to fear of the states law.

Politics

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 12, 2025

Subsequent inquiries from the USDA Inspector General concluded that the relocations likely violated federal laws requiring Congressional approval. At ERS, by 2021, just 37% of employees had more than a decade of experience, down from 71% before the relocation. The damage from the relocation was swift.

2019

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

The webinar is the latest installment in the NALC’s “Western Water” Webinar Series, which highlights pressing water law issues in the Western United States. NALC Director Harrison Pittman said the “Western Water” Webinar Series plays an important role in sharing legal insight on water law across the country.

2013

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

After all, a framework document is not a rule or law, and it may seem broad and abstract. Even as were looking ahead to a new administration that may disregard this important document, its worth understanding what the Cumulative Impacts Framework is and why it matters. So what is it? The road to get here has been long. Why does it matter?

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. I’ll discuss these laws in chronological order. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included. These statutes will be difficult for Trump to repeal.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

That investigation initiated in 2021. More Background - Presumption Pennsylvania law provides , generally, an oil and gas well owner is presumed to be responsible for water supply contamination if the oil and gas well is within 1,000 feet of a water supply for a conventional well and 2,500 feet for an unconventional shale gas well.

2023

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Office of Attorney General also brought about a 2021 settlement with Chesapeake Energy for payment of royalties to landowners with shale gas leases that involved $5.3 million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

2014

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Industry Has No Interest In Changes In September 2021, environmental groups submitted rulemaking petitions to the Environmental Quality Board to increase well plugging bonding amounts for conventional and unconventional shale gas wells to what it costs taxpayers to plug oil and gas wells abandoned by their owners. Read more here.

2025

Vermont Law

MARCH 25, 2025

Some far more direct examples of climate-induced conflict exist, such as the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border clashes during 2021-22, in which a dispute over a climate-impacted, rain deprived reservoir that fed critical agriculture was the main source of dispute.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a law that establishes a statewide framework for advancing the long-term availability of the states groundwater resources. 2021-69012-35916] from the U.S. Read the Issue Brief and download the Supplemental Information. RD-84046301-0.

2014

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In June 2024, UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute Europe hosted its first inaugural conference, The Promise of International Law in the Face of Ecological Crises , shortly after the issuance of a highly anticipated advisory opinion from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

require a petition to meet three criteria in DEP’s initial review-- -- Petition must be complete; -- Petition requests an action that can be taken by the EQB [within its statutory authority]; and -- The action does not conflict with federal law. DEP’s determination means the petition has met these three criteria, at this stage.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

In December 2021, CNX Resources pleaded no contest to criminal charges brought by then Attorney General Shapiro to stop the practice. Read more here. [In Read more here. Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Natural Gas

ESA

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This meeting’s goal was to discuss the theoretical and practical framework of ecocide laws and to educate participants about their potential. A theoretical framework: criminal law vs. regulatory law Environmental laws exist, but most are regulatory in nature. Ecocide laws, ecocide terminology, ameliorates those issues.

Law

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Adding-- the use of O&G PWs on Program funded [Dirt & Gravel Road] projects is in opposition with not only the fundamental goals of the Program, but the law that created the Program. The guidelines were administered by DEP under the Clean Streams Law, Solid Waste Management Act and the Oil and Gas Act. Read more here.

Natural Gas