A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

Graph showing the rapid increase in forest loss between 2023 and 2024. Wildfires leave their mark on the Spanish wine industry The GLAD data shows that tropical primary forests were lost at a rate of 18 football fields per minute, a doubling compared to 2023 data. In 2024, fires burned five times the amount of forest they did in 2023.

2024

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

The subsequent 2023-2024 El Nio event proved even deadlier, with 5 fatalities out of 127 reported cases of heat-related illnesses. While no provision prohibits litigation related to the Act, it does create obstacles to using litigation as a means of government accountability. Malaysia regularly experiences high temperatures.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

This means that when it comes to renewables replacing gas, there has always been resistance, whether its in terms of under-the-table politics or influencing decision makers. The government has also been guilty of overregulation, with three or four approvals needed to install solar systems.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Here are 107 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

But this is more political opportunism than productive problem solving. UCS and other groups have been calling for the state to develop a petroleum phaseout plan since 2022 , and the government has responded, created new regulatory authorities and a planning process at the California Energy Commission (CEC) and other state agencies.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In the past year, weve seen significant victories that inspire hope, like the Swiss KlimaSeniorinnen case, which called for an improved government climate action plan; Held v. This tensionbetween exciting breakthroughs and persistent delaysunderscores the complexity of litigation’s role in climate governance.

2025

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. drop in Amazon deforestation between 2023 and 2024.

2025

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. The committee decided to not review cases from 2022 and 2023 to be more contemporary.

Politics

Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on States obligations regarding climate change. Several domestic cases brought by Indigenous groups make similar claims.

Climate Change

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

EPAs answer to this EO was their 2022 Equity Action Plan , where they set out an ambitious goal to release a Cumulative Impacts Framework document by September 23, 2023. In April 2023, Executive Order 14096 , Revitalizing Our Nations Commitment to Environmental Justice for All included the phrase cumulative impact nine times.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These obstacles include governance structures, political economy, decision-making dynamics and environmental justice concerns. From April 2022 to July 2023, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as deputy general counsel for energy efficiency and clean energy demonstrations at the U.S.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

As chair of the California Air Resources Board for nearly 20 years, I attended the annual conferences from Bali in 2007 to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in 2023. While some national political leaders are backing off their climate commitments , these subnational governments know they have to live with increasing fires , floods and deadly heat waves.

Rainforest

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

On the one hand, global greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, and the temperature for 2023 is the highest ever recorded. EPA’s Super Emitter Program –a program that we hope will survive the current political turbulence. On the other hand, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the U.S.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

(Waters has a fan following who turned her mirthless repetition of the phrase, reclaiming my time in the face of non-responsive testimony from former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin into one of the most viral political memes of the first Trump Administration.) Credit: Investigation Report by the U.S.

2015

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

DEP reported last year that 86% of conventional well owners failed to submit 2023 production and waste reports covering 33,505 wells. DEP reported last year that 89% of conventional well owners failed to submit 2023 well integrity reports covering 34,455 wells. That we are still leaving this up to taxpayers and political whims.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

At this moment, the last thing federal, state and local governments need is to divert precious resources to debunk baseless conspiracy theories and disinformation. FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) is the federal government’s primary source of funding for disaster response, recovery and preparedness. What is the Disaster Relief Fund?

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

The Trump government wants to dismantle the climate and weather science conducted by NOAA because evidence of a warming world resulting from burning their products is a pesky reality for the fossil fuel industry that gave millions to his campaign. This is not speculation. This is very, very harmful. million times.

2010

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Political stunts aren’t helping Levee breached in Pajaro River in 2023. This political stunt not only did not help anyone in Southern California fight fires but also wasted water that could have been stored for the summer. The political theater didnt stop there. No one benefited not farmers, not fish, not cities.

Politics

Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2025

Photo by nader saremi on Unsplash Texas Third Court of Appeals will hear arguments tomorrow, April 23, 2025, in a case that cuts to the core of how state and local governments coexist. Galled by the breadth of the Act and convinced it blows up local governments authority in nearly total ways, critics have termed the law the Death Star.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2025

These seeds are vital for the country’s food security and cultural heritage, especially given the ongoing civil unrest since 2023. It is operated by The Norwegian government, the Crop Trust , and the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen). At -18 degrees C, it is 1,300 km from the North Pole on the remote Norwegian archipelago.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

The 2023 Congressional amendments to NEPA entrenched in the statute a requirement for public comment on the scope of an EIS. Even more broadly, advocates defend environmental review on the grounds that it is an important form of democratic governance.

Regulations

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen John Kerry, the former US Secretary of State and Special Envoy on Climate Change, an army veteran and veteran of US politics now aged 80, took the stage in London today as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Soft Power Index. David Haigh in conversation with John Kerry. Photo credit: Brand Finance.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

3] Best interests of the corporation is further defined to include the following factors: (a) the interests of shareholders, employees, retirees and pensioners, creditors, consumers, and governments; (b) the environment ; and (c) the long-term interests of the corporation. [4] 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

A coalition of environmental nonprofit groups brings a class action lawsuit against the US government and fossil fuel companies, on the basis that they had long failed to act on warnings from scientists (including the companies own) that something must be done.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

In 2015, after weighing the evidence it had, the Obama White House and the EPA broke through political impediments and finally established the first federal rules to close particularly menacing dumps and dispose of ash in modern, lined landfills.

2015

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It examines the implications of the 2010 earthquake on toxic waste management, and how the nations ongoing political crisis exacerbates the challenges of waste regulation. The Haitian government and relevant stakeholders must prioritize these issues and others affecting the Haitian people and the environment. million people.[3]

Waste

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Let’s take a hike through three jurisdictions, each with a conservative-leaning government, and see how they are approaching this issue. Not all conservative-leaning governments treat the development of renewable energy the same. But there is reason to hope. MT in 2020, or 13.5 per cent of all the emissions in the US. (

Government

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. The government’s real mission was to build Arctic capabilities so it could both operate and listen from somewhere much closer to the Soviet Union.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2025

Utahs action, coming after months of political and scientific debate, puts the state at the center of a far-reaching and increasingly aggressive confrontation between grassroots activists and government about the role public agencies should take in deciding what many citizens view as private health decisions. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy Jr.,

2002

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate. The scientific, legal, and political turmoil is weighing on Bayers top executives.

Biotechnology

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” which is weirdly what Zeldin says he’s doing, is not a way to govern. Like so many of this administration’s policy rollbacks, this one looks strategic but is short-sighted.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro Says Presidents Tariff Plan Makes No Sense; Only Means Higher Prices For Pennsylvanians; Why Did He Do It? -- Post-Gazette: Shapiro, Fetterman Responses To President Spotlight Political Differences, Challenges For Democrats -- Gov. Ohio- $2.80

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Over the past few months, we have witnessed a massive dismantling of science and scientific processes in the federal government, and especially at the U.S. Government Accountability Offices (GAO) High-Risk Series. Despite these politically motivated threats, the science remains clear and consistent.

Toxic Substances Control Act

A Greener Life

JANUARY 26, 2025

Doubling capacity In 2024, the US power sector added 27 GW of new solar capacity, doubling what was added in 2023. The EIA said that in 2025, utilities in the US are expected to add 26 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, with another 22 GW in 2026.

Electricity

Law Columbia

APRIL 28, 2025

Data collected across the four administrations are helpful to illuminate trends in federal climate change regulation over time but also to ensure that the public is made aware of the scope of action, whether good or bad, especially in the current political climate.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Here are 192 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation