Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To address this challenge and identify solutions, Berkeley Laws Center for Law, Energy and the Environment ( CLEE ) and ClimateWorks Foundation founded in 2022 the Global Forum for Sustainable Batteries , a worldwide network of nonprofit leaders, experts, and advocates committed to transportation electrification and mining justice.

Law

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. In October 2022, Sen.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

Most significantly, the court held that—at least in principle—companies responsible for large-scale emissions can be held liable under German civil law for the climate-related harms they contribute to. A judicial site visit to Huaraz took place in 2022, and evidentiary hearings were held in 2025. For example, in Milieudefensie v.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In early 2024, the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) at UC Berkeley released evaluations of two state grant programs—the Adaptation Planning Grant Program (APGP) and the Regional Resilience Planning and Implementation Grant Program (RRGP).

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

These effects were further recognized in the 2022 Global Methane Assessment from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Guest Contributor Alexander Wood is a rising 2L at UCLA School of Law. Gt CO₂ per year. There is no doubt the benefits in reducing animal agriculture rival those in reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

Echoing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its Advisory Opinion 32/25 , on July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) unanimously held that this right constitutes a binding norm of international law. First, what are States’ obligations, under international law, to protect the climate system for present and future generations?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law. 2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law. First recommended in December 2022.] 753 well owners covering 81,396 wells did report.

Waste

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The groups allege that more than 500 or more than 17 per cent of certain types of oil and gas facilities owned by CNRL failed to report to the NPRI in 2022. No company, including multi-billion-dollar ones, should be given a free pass when they break the law.

Government

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

But its laws prohibit labour-efficient multi-family housing on almost all existing low-rise neighbourhood streets, limiting apartment buildings to tiny high-rise pockets where family-sized homes arent viable. Stop the wasting of construction capacity, by reversing all designations of rural land for sprawl development since 2022.

Waste

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.

2013

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. million to ensure compliance with state environmental laws and regulations. million-- a nearly $100 million decrease from $178.9 Read more here.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

At issue in the case is whether New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019 , the Citys building performance standards aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its largest buildings, is preempted by New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). Glen Oaks Village Owners v. City of New York , 96 N.Y.2d

Law

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

But in-ocean research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the London Convention and London Protocol require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea.

Carbon Dioxide

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

asylum law, and the broader international community’s responsibilities. Unprecedented flooding in Barbados and Brazil in May 2024 displaced thousands, while floods in Pakistan in 2022 displaced approximately 8 million people. History of Asylum Law in the United States U.S. History of Asylum Law in the United States U.S.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The legislation would prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set protective standards on the development of natural gas that “imposes a standard or condition on well development that conflicts with or exceeds those contained” in state law. In October 2022, Sen. Read more here. Bartolotta’s district.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2022 across southern Pennsylvania and into several states, while also contaminating nearby ground and waters. Bloomberg News called the Rager Mountain gas leak the worst US climate disaster in 2022. Read more here.] Equitrans was purchased by EQT Corporation in July 2024.]

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy in the Green Mountain State Written by Kathryn Keener and Diana Csank Cannabis laws are loosening, and recent legislative measures in some U.S. Both became classified Schedule I substances when President Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law in 1970. Today, cannabis is poised for rescheduling.

Law

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

Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2025

These and other challenges were highlighted during an event hosted by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law on May 12, 2025. On April 14, 2022, the New York State Department of Public Service (DPS) had set a new goal of 10 GW of distributed solar by 2030. It’s not all bad news, though.

Renewable Energy

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

However, this federal scrutiny is clearer when considering Vermonts status as home to one of the nations leading environmental law schools, which trains attorneys to advocate for stronger environmental oversight. Vermont Law School cited numerous concerns with how ANR issued and enforced discharge permits to prevent water pollution.

Clean Water Act

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

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

While the Alberta Energy Regulator has the ability, and responsibility, to hold companies that break the law to account, it has repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to enforce its own laws when it comes to industry rulebreakers — leaving Albertans to bear the costs and clean up the mess. million in this case, but they opted not to.

Regulations

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2025

Filed in November 2022, the case was referred to the Supreme Court by the Nacka District Court in April 2024 for a preliminary assessment of justiciability. The applicants called for annual reductions of 6.4-9.4 million tons of CO 2 -equivalent between 2019 and 2030, including 2.2-3.1 million tons reduced domestically.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), Avoiding contamination and protecting public health needs massive infrastructure investment, like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and needs the EPA to be able to do its jobNOT rolling back key permitting provisions of the Clean Water Act.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

million, down over $100 million from the record revenue in 2022 of $278.9 million to ensure compliance with state environmental laws and regulations. In June, the IFO projected another drop in Act 13 impact revenue of $114 million to from $165 to $170 million for calendar year 2024. Read more here. In 2023, impact fee revenue was $179.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Pennsylvania American Water Company has started construction on a new public water line for Dimock residents – the result of a settlement of criminal charges secured by then-Attorney General Shapiro after Coterra Energy [formerly Cabot Oil & Gas] was found to be in violation of the Clean Streams Law for contaminating residents’ well water.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

Industry structure is a barrier to accessibility A final barrier to DERs in BIPOC and low income communities is baked into the structure of the utility industry itself, as explained in a 2022 article in Stanford Technology Law Review.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 26 Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M.

Natural Gas

HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The role of traditional leadership in disaster management and disaster risk governance: A case of Ugu District Municipality by-laws. Leal Filho, W., Simpson, N. Musiyiwa, K., Kalangu, J. Adelekan, I., Donkor, F. Balogun, A.-L., Mucova, S. R., & Ayal, D. Trisos, C.

Climate Change

SPR Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

These regulations implement amendments that the New York State Legislature enacted in 2022 to Article 24 of the Environmental Conservation Law (ECL)the States Freshwater Wetlands Act… The post NYSDEC Issues Final Revised Freshwater Wetlands Regulations appeared first on Sive Paget & Riesel PC.

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

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

That’s 99% of an enormous industry—retail sales of beef alone represented 143 billion dollars in 2022. Oregon can celebrate a victory here: in the 2023 legislative session, a new law prohibiting CAFOs from getting discharge permits in groundwater … Continue reading "CAFOs: Harming People Now, Later, and Forever"

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Working across the globe, EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to turn solutions into action. It was a primary advocate for the overhaul of Americas chemical safety laws in 2016 and the passage of historic climate investments in 2022. With more than 3.5

Natural Gas

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. While the plaintiff argued that a letter issued to it by NRCS in 2022 notifying the plaintiff on how to request review of the 2010 wetlands determination was a final agency action, the court disagreed.

2013

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Industries claim that this Board lacks the authority to act on this petition is not supported by these laws. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

As the Supreme Court of Brazil (Supremo Tribunal Federal) warned in 2022 (see here ), “there are no human rights on a dead or sick planet.” Actions that jeopardize the future of life on Earth should be prohibited by law. Conclusion In the face of recent backtracking on climate commitments by governments (e.g.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

In subsequent media reports, ExxonMobil has said it has not been involved in or aware of any hacking activities, while DCI Group has said: We direct all our employees and consultants to comply with the law (Satter and Bing 2024). But the US governments recent filing suggests it is in possession of evidence to the contrary against DCI Group.

Fossil Fuels