Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. Critically, the Juliana case relied on federal law. legal history. The August 14th Held v.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Is it simply a lack of political will? ( *side eye fossil fuel industry) You don’t have to look any further than the oil and gas lobbyists in government offices every day of the month crying wolf about how unfair and destabilizing climate policy would be to their profits. What were they able to achieve?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Million -- TribLive: Fetterman Says He Is ‘Not A Progressive’ Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Threads PA Environment Digest Feed Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: December 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest Haddock -- EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

Capitol Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: January 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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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.”. In 2023 the issue of increasing population in China is “out” and increasing population in India is “in.” Stuart Kaplow.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

2023 Pennsylvania Botany Symposium Oct. 19 Special Election -- Inquirer Editorial: PA Voters Would Benefit From Open Primary System -- City & State PA: Where PA Politicos Drink And Dine In Harrisburg -- Inquirer Guest Essay: PA Gun Laws Have Devastated My Community, There’s Little I Can Do - Sen. COVID Vaccine Requirements?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Capitol Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million To Delaware Estuary Program, Including Support For Mussel Hatchery At Philadelphia's Bartram's Gardens [PaEN] -- Dept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

But even putting aside this uncertainty, the ISOR overstates the climate benefits of using soybean oil-based fuels because it ignores the fact that use of this fuel in the United States is already mandated by the RFS, so if California uses less, another state will use more. Reality is running well ahead of CARB projections.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

This is the first of a series of posts previewing the Emmett Institute’s 2023 Symposium , coming up on April 12. And with divided government at the federal level, these laws may well be the last nationwide legislative actions on climate change for years. RSVP here ! secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As I noted in my introductory post on the Commission, I served as an advisor to the Secretariat and my students in the UCLA International Climate Law and Policy Clinic provided research and analytic support to the Secretariat. It is thus consistent with large body of prior international law.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Two weeks ago, the Zambezi River Authority ordered the operators of Kariba Dam to halt hydropower generation through at least January 2023, worsening electricity shortages in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Legal scholars called the targeting of essential infrastructure a violation of international law. Disasters are horrific and noteworthy.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2022

Our new book, Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture , aims to fill this information gap and provides the first comprehensive overview of the law and policy of agricultural emissions in the United States. FARMING FOR OUR FUTURE, CH. Policy opportunities abound. Gerrard and John C.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

Commission Office, 1601 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa Global Witness PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:39 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

This political rollercoaster ride was also unfolding across last year’s Danger Season , stressing the urgency of the need to act big, and act now. And just as suddenly, on August 16, 2022, the bill became law: the largest-ever one-time federal investment in climate action that humanity has ever seen. It was simply awesome.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

April 4, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Also split by the Ontario-Quebec border, and the state of New York just to the east, Akwesasne’s sovereignty faces numerous legal and political obstacles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog post was co-authored by Martha Kinsella, former senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023. Oklahoma and Idaho have repealed their ethics laws entirely. It was more like a toxic soup.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

saying there was no basis for challenging a August 16, 2023 DEP administrative order. Great Cacapon Enterprises)-- but the application was withdrawn in 2023. Medina was issued at least 10 NOVs for well abandonment in 2023. The second appeal remains active [ Docket# 2023075 ]. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. How did we get here? Why aren’t there more ways to get around my community?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

Billion Over 4 Years -- Independent Fiscal Office: Budget Impact Of New Union Contract FY 24-25 - $696 Million -- The Center Square: In-State Tuition At Penn State, University Of Pittsburgh Among Costliest Nationwide -- York Dispatch: Dr. Oz Repaid Himself $1.2

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People- A coalition of environmental, health, and social justice groups are calling on Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to ban the export of thermal coal from Canadian ports by 2023 and to release a roadmap of this ban on Earth Day.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

After weeks of hints and leaks, yesterday morning (May 11, 2023), EPA proposed a new rule regulating emissions from power plants. Yet because of the politics of climate change, the rule will almost certainly be subject to a similar challenge. Emphasis added.] For more on West Virginia v. EPA , see our previous post here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

On October 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm (CT) Diane will lead a global hunger strike against Formosa Plastics, her fourth hunger strike. On October 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm (CT) Diane will lead a global hunger strike against Formosa Plastics, her fourth hunger strike. billion complex in St. She hopes to bring justice to the Vietnamese fisherman.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question. It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. His reply ?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

This legislative session, state lawmakers in the Sunshine State focused on erasing climate change from their laws, killing offshore wind, and banning local heat protection ordinances that are meant to keep people safe in the hottest state in the nation. In June 2023, Texas Gov. But it’s not just heat denial.

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