Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). In 2022, the parties agreed to evaluate those four approaches, and how they should be governed. LICG has been meeting regularly to advance governance discussions. seaweed) for carbon storage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Below I reflect on my predictions before venturing into the uncharted territory of 2024. There was a glimmer of hope in Hawaii, however, when a state Supreme Court ruling opened the door for a potentially historic trial against oil companies set for 2024. Predictions for 2024 Now for the fun part.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Bill 212 will also carves the Ontario government’s preferred Highway route out of the provincial Greenbelt Plan and circumvent any meaningful provincial consultation with Indigenous nations on whether, or even where, the highway will be built.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The bill ignores environmental values, hinders affordable solutions to traffic congestion, undermines efforts to deliver affordable infill housing and puts the province on a collision course with the federal government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2023

It turns out that we don’t actually know current food insecurity levels—at least not based on federal government sources. The federal government only reports food insecurity data once a year, but new research shows that if people are asked about food insecurity on a monthly basis, the rates go up by one-third.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

In 2024, RECA champions in Congress reaffirmed their commitment to communities to do whatever it took to pass RECA legislation, including passing it as a stand-alone bill, or working to attach it to any piece of legislation that was moving in Congress. government to protect the public from dangerous and harmful radiation.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection is still accepting applications for the Shared Energy Manager Program to help local governments, authorities and school districts reduce energy costs, consider renewable energy alternatives and implement local climate action plans. Click Here for presentation slides.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There were many dedicated folks from government agencies and private citizens that moved the effort forward as funding became available. NewsClip: -- Republican Herald: Bill Reichart Presented Mayfly Award For His Longtime Work Promoting Clean Water [ PDF of Article ] [Posted: November 4, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen New forest loss data has revealed that in 2024, wildfires have overtaken deforestation activities, such as industrial logging, as the primary reason behind forest losses. Graph showing the rapid increase in forest loss between 2023 and 2024. In 2024, fires burned five times the amount of forest they did in 2023.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These initiatives are designed to empower local governments and communities with the tools and funding necessary to build long-term climate resilience. However, the 2024 State budget eliminated funding for both programs as part of the State’s plan to address budget deficits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

This verdict is yet another example of the fossil fuel industrys agenda being enacted by multiple levels and branches of government. In todays dollars the total cost to the US government in lost revenue alone would be approximately $222.7 The union struck Boeing again in 2024. This is more than an outrage. billion today).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 15, 2025

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives approved the bill – which will fund the government through September 30, 2025 – on a vote of 217-213. Todays government funding deal locks in and deepens cuts that will have a direct line to farmer livelihoods and the economic well-being of their communities.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Statement by Tim Gray, Executive Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat Ontarians are being let down by the federal governments decision to not put back in place a federal impact assessment for Highway 413. That order is due on January 25th, 2025.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

The fund would be established based upon this study, requiring the responsible polluters to contribute based on their market share of emissions between 1990-2024. The legislation passed in May 2024, and Governor Phil Scott allowed it to go into effect without his signature.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

Today, the Sabin Center published a report that looks back on climate litigation developments since the beginning of 2024. It begins with a brief overview of the growth in climate litigation in 2024. Read the 2024 report here.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2024

An assessment would have given decision-makers and the public a chance to better understand how this project would impact the climate, environment, and Indigenous rights before the government had to make a final decision on whether or not it could go ahead. In September 2021, Minister Wilkinson re-designated the project.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Today, the Sabin Center published a report that looks back on climate litigation developments since the beginning of 2024. It begins with a brief overview of the growth in climate litigation in 2024. Read the 2024 report here.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2025

Missing from the conversation is the fact that the project would threaten the water of tens of thousands of Albertans, including farmers, yet the Alberta government has refused to conduct an environmental assessment. However, in 2024 leaks were detected at the first commercial CO2 storage site in the United States , due to corrosion.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On September 9, 2024, Congress will be back in session in Washington, DC for the first time since early August. By October 1, Congress will need to fund the government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and determine how to extend ( again ) the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). Yet, their return will be short lived.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

ITLOS published its advisory opinion in May 2024, and the IACtHR opinion is expected later in 2025. The Court received 91 written statements and 62 written comments on those statements, and 96 States and 11 international organizations presented oral statements at public hearings in the Hague in December 2024.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

It is unlikely that the government will last long once Parliament resumes. At the top of the list of key climate regulations that need to be finalized before March 24th is the governments cap on pollution from the oil and gas industry. The Government of Canada promised the new rules by the end of 2024, but they missed their deadline.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

While the Ontario government has unleashed housing sprawl on agricultural lands, including trying to undermine the Greenbelt – it has slammed the door shut on ground-mounted solar in all agricultural lands including Ontarios marginal farmland. Proposing a ban on Chinese components from all future energy purchases in Ontario.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – Environmental Defence experts react to the 2024 Ontario budget, released today. The post Environmental Defence Experts React to the 2024 Ontario Budget appeared first on Environmental Defence.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ecojustice lawyers, representing Environmental Defence, filed an Application for Judicial Review this June, after Fisheries and Oceans Canada missed the mandatory Species at Risk Act deadline of April 3, 2024 to finalize the Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Redside Dace.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

During the Hangzhou plenary, governments had the opportunity to review and adjust the draft outlines developed at earlier expert meetings. The report, initially scoped in 2024 and planned for completion by 2027, aims to provide technical guidance on measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions removals from CDR technologies.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The same government department had the previous day in a food security report warned that climate change poses a pressing risk to UK food security as it drives volatility and threatens the resilience of food production in the long term. Image generated by AI.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. Conference of Mayors in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The 2024 (previously 2023) food and farm bill. With the September 30 deadline for passing a fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations package looming and no agreement in sight, Congress settled on a temporary fix: they passed a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government at last year’s levels until December 20.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And it’s not just California: Battery-powered car sales are up globally , with projections showing 17 million will be sold worldwide in 2024. But PRO-based EPR programs can still come with significant government involvement—as they should. About one in five new cars sold in California are battery-powered.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2025

There is tremendous uncertainty about what policies the federal government will change that will affect electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing and sales in the US. But there is no question about the impact that EVs will have on reducing climate-changing emissions.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

Vanuatu and the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) asserted that these legal consequences are governed by the general law of State responsibility. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) published its advisory opinion in May 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In 2024, Pennsylvania preserved 167 new farms and 13,847 prime acres of farmland across the state, investing more than $50.6 These joint investments by state and local governments ensure that Pennsylvania farmers will have the prime-quality land they need to continue supporting families, communities, and jobs.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

They dont cover government or enterprise data centers. In April 2024, Amazon announced plans to develop around $11 billion worth of data center facilities about 20 miles from Lake Michigan in New Carlisle, Indiana. In 2024, the Joyce Foundation examined groundwater governance in the U.S. Courtesy of Data Center Map.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Guest Post by Julia Choolwe Munsaka , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. 2 While many of the current climate and disaster strategies and plans are clear on the need for disaster risk governance and institutional frameworks, there is still emphasis on top-down approaches. In Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (pp.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The 2024 election will have consequential outcomes and we want to ensure that everyone eligible can vote and that their votes are counted fairly. That’s why we all benefit from government based on the preferences of an informed and active voter base.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects. Yet, reaching net zero also means phasing out polluting fossil fuel energy, so the government developed rules to impose a pollution limit on electricity producers. So, do they do the job?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In July, the Bay received a C+ grade, its best in 20 years, in the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s 2023/2024 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Report Card. Continued leadership -- from state government to grassroots organizations – is sparking even more optimism. You have my commitment that this work will continue.

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