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

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

JUNE 10, 2025

New Mexico, RETA: New Mexico is a regulated electricity market with the investor-owned utility, Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), serving most of the state. It is regulated by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC). RETA was established in 2007. CETA was established in 2021.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

Reversing California’s air quality and climate regulations would not address the immediate challenges and would compromise the health and welfare of California’s people. In light of these changes, some California regulations, adopted when the gasoline market was more competitive, are no longer working as designed.

Regulations

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. Under SB 615, DTSC would have needed to create regulations to enforce the bill’s requirements and to create a system to report battery transactions, to ensure batteries don’t end up orphaned.

Waste

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

This follows a decade of record-breaking temperatures, with the World Meteorological Organization concluding that the past ten years 2025-2024 are the ten warmest years on record. A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. o C above pre-industrial levels.

Carbon Dioxide

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

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

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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The goal of the grant is to ensure that historically marginalized and underserved communities have access to information and resources about environmental protection, DEP permits, regulations, and grant opportunities. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Government-To-Government grant.

Environmental Protection

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.

Cooling

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

Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

In 2024 alone, the world installed a record-breaking 597 gigawatts of solar capacity —a 33% increase over 2023, which brought global solar installations to over 1.6 In October 2024, Australia’s Pan Pacific plant opened with the capacity to process 240,000 panels annually. million in 2025 to $548 million by 2030.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The draft 2024 report has an interactive report viewer that allows you to zoom in to your own address to see if the streams near you are impaired and why. Related Articles - Watersheds: -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. How Clean Is Your Stream?

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

By the time the case reached the State Court of Appeals, the key issue to be resolved was whether New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), preempts local regulation in the field of GHG emissions regulationand therefore Local Law 97. Case History: 2022-2024 Glen Oaks Village Owners v.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] Gov.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Recognizing this, federal and state bodies have adopted a number of laws and regulations aimed at ensuring geologic carbon storage proceeds in a safe and responsible way. A number of new state laws focused on geologic carbon storage have been enacted in 2024. Several states are stepping up to the plate.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2025

It serves Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, ensuring these EFTA states comply with EU/EEA law, including some EU directives and regulations that are relevant in the context of the EEA, such as the EU Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive (2011/92/EU). In 2024, in R (Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group & Others) v.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Related Articles - Watersheds: -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. Click Here to sign up for SRBC’s newsletter. Follow SRBC on Twitter , visit them on YouTube. PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

He said the board wants to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and that can be accomplished by cutting electric bills. PaEN] -- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 19 Webinar On Meeting The Challenges Of The Electric Grid - PJM's Role [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 10.8%

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

The Act includes a provision that preempts state and local governments from setting standards concerning the energy efficiency, energy use, or water use of products regulated by EPCA. In general, the limits went into effect in 2024 for buildings under seven stories; for buildings over seven stories, the limits begin in 2027.

Law

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Posted: December 22, 2024] PA Environment Digest 16 Webinar On Forest Carbon Markets And Payment Programs Expert Panel [PaEN] -- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Jan. 16 Webinar On Winter Salting and Local Waterway Impacts: Opportunities To Work For Change [PaEN] -- North Branch Land Trust: Jan.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Environmental Defence supported a complaint about Pathways Alliance’s misleading ads submitted by Greenpeace to the Competition Bureau of Canada, the agency responsible for regulating false advertising. In June 2024 the federal government updated The Competition Act through amendments to bill C-59.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The draft 2024 report has an interactive report viewer that allows you to zoom in to your own address to see if the streams near you are impaired and why. Related Articles - Watersheds: -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov.

Atmosphere

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 23, 2025

Through this three-part blog series, we’ll examine the hidden environmental consequences of AI and data centres, and what we, at Environmental Defence, think our government should do about it. This growth is being actively encouraged by some provincial governments seeing economic development opportunities.

Government

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Joshua Kail (R-Beaver) said he thought it was outrageous DEP has a process where any citizen can petition the agency for a change in its regulations. EQB regulations at 25 Pa. Any regulation would still have to follow the regulatory process. Kail-- So we would have to approve this regulation, this rule that would go into effect?

Regulations

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the last five years, at least 25 states have expressly preempted local governments from enacting requirements , or even incentives, to construct new buildings that do not rely on natural gas as a fuel source. On December 6, 2024, two local governments finally fought back in court. of Washingtons November 2024 voters.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

On November 21, 2024, FERC granted York Energy Storage a preliminary permit to study the construction of a pumped storage facility at Cuffs Run along the Susquehanna River. The landscape of the lower Susquehanna River gorge has been recognized by both state and federal governments as worthy of protection and investment. Virgin Islands.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

MAY 20, 2025

In the first three months of 2025 weve already seen Big Oil come out swinging at climate policy and government decision makers. We dont exactly what they say behind closed doors, but its a safebet that cutting climate and environmental regulations and massively expanding fossil fuel production was on the agenda.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

Here are 116 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

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

These pressures are further compounded by social tensions , as Indigenous communities are frequently excluded from decision-making processes, raising concerns about environmental justice and the equitable governance of natural resources. Initially, this restriction was based on lithiums potential use in nuclear energy.

Politics

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Last Friday, December 20, 2024, the Sabin Center submitted an amicus brief to the New York State Court of Appeals the states highest court in support of the City of New York in Glen Oaks Village Owners, Inc., City of New York. Field preemption can be express or implied. As explained in DJL Rest. City of New York , 96 N.Y.2d

Law

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

This suggests that courts should afford substantial deference to agencies in the context of standalone NEPA claims that do not implicate the agency’s obligations under the substantive statutory framework governing the action. But the import of these statements may be more limited than it at first blush seems. See David E.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2025

Over the last five years, several states, including New York (2020), California (2022), Illinois (2023), and Michigan (2023) have adopted comprehensive permitting reforms that curtail the power of local governments to block development of large-scale renewable energy projects. Amicus brief filed by the Sabin Center and Goodman Acker P.C.

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

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Here are 153 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. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Conservation