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.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Court documents and related reporting suggest that the US government possesses evidence that the criminal scheme was indirectly paid for by ExxonMobil and that one of its lobbying firms, the Washington, DC-based DCI Group, provided a list of targets to a middleman linked to the hackers and sent the fruits of the hacking to the oil and gas company.

Fossil Fuels

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

2024

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.

Politics

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

2024

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Government

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.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

2024

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.

2024

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.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2025

The drop, months in the making, prompted the aquifer’s governing body to impose its strictest level of water cuts. The most destructive hurricanes of the last two decades – Sandy (2012), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), Ida (2021), Ian (2022), Helene (2024) – arrived on or after Katrina’s initial landfall date of August 25.

Rainforest

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).

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. Almost 20,000 people were killed from 1979 to 2024 and more than 45,000 injured by the millions of landmines left over from Cambodia’s civil war. According to a 2023 government report, 54.2% In the 2024/2025 fiscal year, Cambodia grew 8.47

Government

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.

Climate Change

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.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Related Article: -- PA Sea Grant Names PA 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows: Nathaniel Edelheit-Rice, Sahara Rios-Bonilla, Chelsea Russ [PaEN] [Posted: November 11, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plants will also explore the growing role of carbon credit markets in incentivizing the plugging of orphaned and abandoned wells.

Natural Gas

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.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

billion in clean energy tax credits as of May 2024. Nearly $5 billion in federal grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2024 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program is also a source of the influx of clean energy funding. million in early December 2024.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2025

Note: Data is for February 2003 to December 2013 and January 2014 to April 2024. Fail to adjust the governance and use of groundwater around the world, and humanity risks surrendering parts of its coastal cities while pouring out finite reserves it will sorely need as the other effects of climate change take hold.

Sea Level

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.

Climate Change

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.

2025

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Resource Link: -- Headwaters To The Ohio Water Network Launches Assessment Of Needs Of Community-Based Watershed Groups And Leaders; Seeks Partners In PA [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- DEP Awards $19.6

Conservation

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Learn more and get involved at: [link] The post Comment: NSAC Responds to Government Funding Deal appeared first on National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

Government

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

The Promise Institute Europe, led by Professor Kate Mackintosh, appeared before the ICJ on the case and convened a conference in May 2024 to explore the issues involved.) She’s also affiliated faculty at the UCLA Emmett Institute. The following transcript has been edited lightly for clarity.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

This report shows how state agencies, local governments and nonprofit groups have often collaborated to create the blueprint for successful wildlife corridor projects all across Pennsylvania. Its time to take these best practices and successes to the next level, and develop the tools needed to protect our wildlife all across the state.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But this year, 2024, was different – Canadian seniors in 76 locations mobilized 6000 people to call for a better world, free from the destruction caused by burning fossil fuels. October 1, 2024 was just a beginning. This is a guest blog by Lyba Spring and Nick De Carlo, co-chairs of Seniors for Climate Action Now!

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

This includes governments at all levels implementing bans on advertising, as well as sports organizations taking steps to end the practice of sportswashing. A 2024 report from UK based researchers showed that oil and gas companies have spent at least $5.6 billion pounds across 205 active sponsorship deals.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The 2024 Retailer Report Card, now in its sixth edition, is the most comprehensive assessment of corporate policies on toxic chemicals and plastics in North America. To protect human and environmental health, we need the Canadian federal government to take the lead with stronger rules and regulatory action.” While a few U.S.-based

2024

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Key problems include: -- Permitting Inconsistencies: The PA Bulletin does not reflect that the Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan (ESCP) application was revised and resubmitted in March 2024. acres will be disturbed, contradicting the Project Limit of Disturbance (LOD) of 228 acres.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. We will continue to push for government policy that reigns in sprawl and focuses growth inside of towns and cities. In the second half of 2024, 50% of new car sales in China were battery powered and oil demand is predicted to decline starting in just a couple of years.

2025

A Greener Life

JUNE 5, 2025

It is now celebrated in more than 150 countries and involves governments, schools , companies and individuals. Organisers say that this year’s theme, Beat Plastic Pollution, reminds us that action must happen at every level: from governments and industries to individuals.

2025

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Government-To-Government grant. “Grant recipients representing rural and urban areas and people of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences will have the opportunity to share expertise and gain the support of a statewide network of organizations engaged in environmental justice.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

When government, residents, and businesses work together- great things can happen! Submitted by Beth Intoccia) [Posted: November 13, 2024] PA Environment Digest To volunteer in the Coatesville area contact Shakira Davis at shakira@2ndcenturyalliance.org. All events are posted on the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Calendar webpage.

Politics