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

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Balancing Environmental Protection with Economic Development: The Greenland Mining Dilemma By Suhana Roy The principle of sustainable development is a principle of international law that reconciles the right to development with the need to protect the environment.-

Environmental Protection

Circle of Blue

MAY 12, 2025

The supply of fresh water is essential to our quality of life and creates a competitive advantage for our region, said Howard Learner, executive director of the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center. The Great Lakes Commission, in 2021, published an Action Plan for Growing the Great Lakes Blue Economy. A month from now?

Politics

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

More recently in 2021, South Coast adopted an ISR that aims to reduce smog-forming emissions by 10-15 percent from warehouse-related sources, such as freight trucks and cargo-handling equipment.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act”) is the law that gives the President the authority to provide disaster response, recovery and preparedness assistance to state, local, tribal, or territorial (SLTT) governments. The Stafford Act (officially, the “Robert T.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

At a recent Columbia Law School colloquium, jointly sponsored by the Sabin Center and the Millstein Center, participants posed a foundational question: How do corporate law standards of fiduciary duty relate to what scientists call the climate emergency? [1] 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S. 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S.

Law

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

It does not seek to discuss every aspect of Trumps EOs, nor to answer every question about the lawfulness of various provisions, nor to set out the exact mechanics for whats to come. Among the EOs rescinded on Monday was President Bidens 2021 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (EO No.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SB 201 is an effort to overturn a state law regulating carbon dioxide pipelines. The initiative is an effort to roll back the state’s pathbreaking 2021 law, which established a statewide cap-and-trade program. South Dakota. Each side has spent in the neighborhood of $12 million in the battle over the initiative.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

This editorial first appeared in the Republican Herald (Schuylkill County), Citizens Voice (Luzerne County) and Scranton Times (Lackawanna County) on March 11, 2025-- Theres really no fine line between what constitutes a political rally and an open, honest discussion about issues on which reasonable people can disagree.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is despite the claim in API’s 2021 Climate Action Framework to “support cost-effective policies and direct regulation that achieve methane emission reductions.” API flexes formidable political muscle, with its policy submissions to the previous Trump administration entering the regulatory record practically verbatim.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Test Your Politics Knowledge With This Quiz -- WHYY: President Appoints Gov. Shapiro -- Spotlight PA: Is Josh Shapiro Keeping Campaign Promises? Ohio- $2.92 Ohio- $2.92 Firm Raises $250 Million, Deploys A.I.

Politics

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

As Canadians prepare to vote in the 2025 federal election, Carneys green credentialsonce a defining feature of his political risehave been tempered by economic realpolitik. Carney and his advisers would likely have identified that the Conservatives had used this as a political football, and they felt they had no choice.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

Billion, 441 Deaths From 2001 to 2021 [ PDF of Article ] -- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Weather Spikes Cause Concern For Our Future [ PDF of Article ] -- LancasterOnline: Penn State Study Shows Lancaster County Well Sampling Found PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ -- Delaware River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 6 Hearing, Sept. Ohio- $3.10

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The law is going to reduce economic growth, and in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia combined, it will wipe out about 45,000 jobs by 2030 and over 57,000 jobs by 2035, according to one analysis. Chart: Patrick Cicero, Former PA Consumer Advocate and Counsel to the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2025

Trump often complains that California sometimes reduces water deliveries to certain agricultural users in order not to harm protected natural resources as required, notably, by both federal and state law. But smart vegetation management, particularly removing non-native overgrowth, can help, which is why local law requires it.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Since the inauguration, I’ve found solace in slowly rewatching The West Wing, a good bedtime story for anyone who feels nostalgia for partisan politics of yesteryear. And there are lessons from previous environmental protests relevant to the current political moment, as others have noted. Anyone else doing this? In April when Sen.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2025

What the Grand Jury Report did was make a series of recommendations for strengthening very weak state laws regulating the oil and gas industry to prevent the kind of health and environmental impacts the jurors heard about during their deliberations. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) confirmed that in a 2021 statement. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

She went to Washington to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury in 2021-2022, and from there went on to join the MIT faculty. Whats your assessment of the law at this point? Which parts of the law have the greatest positive impacts?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

Another judge temporarily blocked the Department of Energy’s plans to cut $405 million in annual research funds from universities, and a third federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately resume disbursing funds from the 2022 climate law and the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.

Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a Senate committee prepares to question Rollins at her confirmation hearing this week, they should take a hard look at her record, which includes far more anti-science rhetoric, inflammatory political statements, and ties to polluting industry than demonstrated interest and expertise in agriculture or food policy.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

17 Hearing On Orchard BJK Company Warehouse Chapter 105 Permit In Monroe County -- Penn Today: New Program Brings Penn And William L. Davis Will Lead Democratic Lt.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

AUGUST 8, 2025

She has issued an Executive Order blocking the development of duplexes in Pacific Palisades , which SB 9 made by-right throughout the state: “The landmark 2021 law, passed in response to the state’s housing shortage, lets property owners divide single-family-home lots and build duplexes, triplexes or fourplexes.” And now this.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro Calls Supporters Of Ban On Transgender Athletes ‘Extremist Legislators,’ Declines To Say If He’d Veto Ban Legislation -- Reading Eagle: PA Bill Would Ban Law Enforcement From Wearing Masks In PA -- US Senate/House -- TribLive/AP: PA Republican Con.

Politics

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0 , in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first hundred days of President Trumps second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, which will roll out over the course of the next week, click here.

Regulations

Physics World

JULY 15, 2025

Europe, meanwhile, was recovering from the devastating First World War, and experiencing political and economic instability alongside flourishing artistic and intellectual movements. Photographer unknown) Bose’s derivation of Planck’s law impressed Einstein, who had also been trying to solve the problem.

Technology

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In Pennsylvania, where the constitution already recognizes environmental rights, the state Supreme Court has used the provision to strike down parts of state law. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2021. The post 2021 Election Preview: New York Considers Right to Clean Water appeared first on Circle of Blue.

2021

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The California Legislature has enacted and Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law SB 389 , an important water law reform measure authored by State Senator Ben Allen. SB 389 is part of a broader initiative by the Legislature–and public interest groups–to reform and update California’s water laws.

Law

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 28, 2021. They worry that scrapping the project after it was approved by state and federal regulators would set a bad precedent for the state and subject future permitting decisions to partisan politics. Proponents of the transmission line have spent more money on their campaign.

2021

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. So in August of 1977, when the nation’s coal mine cleanup law went into effect, it reflected the market’s optimism. To enforce cleanup, the law allowed states to revoke mining permits, a prized commodity. . A Political Quagmire. Photo © U.S.

Law

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the wake of the BRICS Summit in South Africa, China’s recently-promulgated Foreign Affairs Law is worth a closer look. China’s new Foreign Affairs Law, which went into force on July 1 st , formalizes its foreign policy practice, codifying the goals, priorities and guiding principles of its engagement with the world.

Law

Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Yesterday and today the European Parliament approved of the central backbone legislation of the European Green Deal, the so called European Climate Law. This blog entry takes a look at the main points of the proposed European Climate Law, the European Parliament`s take on it and the likely prospects of the law.

Law

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The hunger crisis worsened along with the country’s political deterioration, which culminated in the Taliban takeover in August. Four months later, in March 2021, federal lawmakers doubled down on the approach. The law requires that these support structures account for no more than 15 percent of the LIHWAP funds.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

They introduced a similar bill last session, and the legislation has the public support of more than 170 political scientists who submitted a public letter of support to the House of Representatives. And this public sentiment isnt off base: political scientists agree our democracy is backsliding. According to Reps.

Politics

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In a recent post , I analyzed the California Legislature’s recent passage and Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing into law of two important bills–SB 9 and SB 10–designed to confront California’s well-documented housing crisis. Davis School of Law faculty colleagues Chris Elmendorf and Darien Shanske.).

Law

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. By late 2021, after a decade of conservatives control of the executive branch, Australia was ranked last of sixty countries in terms of climate policy, below countries such as Saudia Arabia and Kazakhstan.

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