Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The state court on the cutting edge of environmental law is a long way from the major population and media centers, which may be one reason it doesn’t get much attention. The Hawaiian Supreme Court has been forging new paths in environmental law that may lead the way for other courts in years to come. It deserves more.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Electrified vehicles constituted nearly a quarter of all new sales in 2023, but publicly accessible chargers still far fall short of the millions needed by 2030 and 2035.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s proxy season, that time of year when investors have a chance to influence corporate policies and make direct asks to corporate decisionmakers, and in 2023 an unwelcome guest is making its presence felt in the boardroom. However, fossil fuel companies are frequent donors to these networks.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The State of Maine is expected to release the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap in early 2023, and the global offshore wind industry should be watching. What can we expect to see when the final Roadmap is released in early 2023? Formally establish state procurement commitments. Act regionally to maximize benefits and lower costs.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . The Government of Canada estimates that this policy will redirect $2.5 billion in fossil financing towards accelerating the urgent implementation of climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This week, summer 2023 comes to a close on our calendars but will be remembered for its record-shattering extremes, notably, heat—until, that is, the next record-shattering summer supplants it, quite possibly in 2024. Heat Associated Deaths in Maricopa County, 2023, by Living Situation. 1379 / H.R.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

State of Montana , against their state government. Of note, there are state constitution based climate change lawsuits against state governments pending in early stages of pleading in Hawaii , Utah , and Virginia. What would the impact be when the conservative Montana legislative branch sides with the executive branch?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

“The state failed to show that the MEPA limitation serves a compelling government interest,” the decision reads. ” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. That’s not unique to Montana , even though this case focused on state laws.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Upcoming research from my colleague Dave Cooke shows that electric delivery trucks can reduce climate-warming emissions from driving by up to 92 percent and reduce lifecycle public health impacts by up to 85 percent compared to today’s average fossil-fueled delivery trucks. on routes between 250 and 450 miles.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

The joint statement from the recent G7 environment and energy ministers’ conference in Japan suggests there is ambition for action in some areas – on climate-related finance and investments and on eliminating toxic chemicals, for example – but less on eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and very little on eliminating plastic pollution.

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2023

As the frequency and number of climate change cases continue to rise, a robust body of legal precedent is forming, shaping a well-defined field of climate law. Domestic Enforcement: Climate change litigation increasingly challenges the domestic enforcement or non-enforcement of climate-related laws. Read the full Report here.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Bill C-50 is a necessary tool to set Canadian workers up for success in a low-carbon economy Countries around the world are choosing to ditch fossil fuels, like oil, gas and coal, to use renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of homes, cars and factories. Fossil fuel workers are also far from the only ones impacted.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The leaders of Canada’s largest environmental organizations wrote to the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers reiterating that for Canada to meet its climate targets, introducing an emissions cap by the end of 2023 is essential. Support in Alberta is strongest – at 76 per cent – among youth.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, Canada is failing to address a key root of the climate crisis — the continued flow of capital by Canadian financial institutions into fossil fuel development and extraction. Canada’s financial institutions are among the largest funders of fossil fuels in the world, and continue to underinvest in clean energy.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Climate change needs government scale intervention. That’s clear and it’s why we work to hold the government accountable. We have the technology and know-how to embrace the solutions at our fingertips and start urgently scaling-up their implementation, so what’s holding the government back? What were they able to achieve?

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. I had to figure out how to bridge the silos that existed in our society – between the renewable energy sector, climate organizations, government policy-makers, project financers, utilities, labour, engineers – the list goes on.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 24, 2023

Canada’s current plans are promising, but insufficient In 2019, the current federal government was elected on a promise of passing a Just Transition law that would prepare workers and communities for the transition. After four years of inaction on this topic, it released in late February 2023 its Sustainable Jobs Action Plan.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. In the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To address the challenge, the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) at Berkeley Law and the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA Law are today releasing a new report, Supercharging Electrolyzers: Boosting Zero-Emission Hydrogen Production and Deployment in California.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. City of Berkeley. In exploring what the CRA v.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

Every five years or so, Congress reauthorizes a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar law that has a major impact not only on farmers and ranchers—who make up less than 2 percent of the US population—but also on the environment, public health, and the economy. Between 2019 and 2023, the agribusiness sector contributed $3.4 million to Rep.

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Acoel

APRIL 24, 2023

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Kristen Boyles Total U.S. Source: EPA) As Seth Jaffe posted last week, the 9th Circuit recently struck down the City of Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation electrification ordinance that prohibited the installation of gas infrastructure in new buildings, finding the ordinance preempted by federal law.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 17, 2023

(It’s no April fool’s day prank) Our lobby bot marked oil and gas industry lobbyists had over 90 meetings with government officials in April. Now that outright climate change denial is no longer popular with the public, CAPP has switched up their top tactic to urging governments to dilute and delay climate action.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2023

On December 15, 2023, IRS published Notice 2024-06 , a brief but important guidance on Section 40B, the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”). The guidance establishes a safe harbor for SAF that generates RINs under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard program (“RFS”).

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In doing so, the court found itself “in accord with the other courts of appeals, which have unanimously found there is no federal jurisdiction where state or local governments have brought state-law actions against energy companies for conduct relating to climate change.” 19, 2023) (“ D.C. District of Columbia v. 22-7163 (Dec.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

The certainty that GHG reduction is the environmental issue of 2023 is more than a Magic 8 Ball prediction, although we do regularly consult one of the 1960s era plastic spheres I keep on my desk.”. And that was in advance of proposed future mandates of government even going into effect. Stuart Kaplow.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

We just got the data for January 2023 about the amount Canada’s oil and gas industry lobbied the federal government. The oil and gas industry’s lobbyists met with federal government officials a minimum of 94 times in December. At the start of the new year, not much changed, with the lobbying continuing at a rapid pace.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As one of the world’s top funders of fossil fuels, taking over HSBC’s Canadian operations, at a time when its parent company was already taking concrete action to lower its financed emissions, is a significant step backwards on climate. They all have asked the Federal Government to kill the deal.

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Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, 2023, the Sabin Center launched its latest report, Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers. However, other categories of litigation arise from corporate failures to adapt to climate change, or climate change-related violations of the law. The economic impact of climate litigation can be enormous.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Because of fossil-fuel subsidies, it is currently cheaper to make plastics from crude oil than from recycled plastic. In 2022, the 20 biggest economies in the world provided fossil-fuel subsidies amounting to U.S. trillion despite committing to phasing out fossil fuel two years ago.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England. It provides essential services that can be a matter of life or death for millions of people.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Busy with our own lives, we’ve simply given agency over to others, counting on the federal government, for example, to save the planet. And it’s still rising. degrees C.

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