Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

July 23, 2025 is a historic day for international law, for climate change, and for humanity,” UCLA Law Professor Anna Spain Bradley told me. The case was filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean that is especially vulnerable to human-caused climate change. Hearings took place last December.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

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Politics

Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2025

Water is being used as a strategic and political tool. Water is being used as a strategic and political tool,” said Salzberg, who spent nearly two decades analyzing water security issues as the special director for water resources at the State Department. “We Reager, Fan Zhang (2025). Aaron Salzberg, former U.S.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

ES: In a recent blog post , you mentioned the opportunities to expand the scope of climate litigation in 2025. This wave of litigation shows that courts are becoming a critical arena for climate action, especially as political systems struggle to keep up with the urgency of the crisis.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2025

The federal government has long known that due to rapidly growing electric vehicle sales, funding for the iZEV program was going to run out early in 2025. There was an opportunity in Finance Minister Chrystia Freelands recent Fall Economic Statement to include stopgap funding to top up the program and prevent this from occurring.

2025

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Liao & Carla Freeman This story was originally published by New Security Beat on July 17, 2025. Local politics, public backlash, and shifting leadership priorities in host countries could derail long-planned, largescale, and expensive projects even after they were begun. By Jessica C.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2025

Credit: Christine Olsson/TT On February 19, 2025, the Swedish Supreme Court dismissed the Aurora case ( Anton Foley and others v Sweden ), the first systemic climate change case brought in Sweden. Such claims were considered political and not part of the courts role in administering justice (rttskipning).

Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We were pleased with the inclusion of NSAC asks in the Senate farm bill framework even though the House farm bill mark did not contain nearly as many wins and highlights the need for our work to continue into 2025. We were pleased by USDAs announcement of additional funding for LFPA in 2025.

2024

Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2025

Photo by Steve Matthews on Unsplash Earlier this month, on June 2, 2025, Atlanta’s City Council unanimously passed a state-of-the-art ordinance to require cool roofs throughout the whole city, immediately propelling Atlanta to the forefront of local climate adaptation measures.

Cooling

HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Guest Post by Julia Choolwe Munsaka , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. TK is thus an essential part of historical and cultural legacies and forms a pillar of cultural, political, economic and scientific identities.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This proposed legislation aims to curb dangerous dust emissions from aggregate facilities in the South Coast Air Basin, where industrial pollution has long threatened public health and the environment.

Recycling

Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2025

The EFTA Courts Ruling On May 21, 2025, the EFTA Court issued its advisory opinion, siding with the plaintiffs on all key issues. The Norwegian Supreme Courts Ruling The EFTA advisory opinion comes on the heels of a Norwegian Supreme Court ruling in the case on April 11, 2025.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

Summit Made Bold Predictions, Announced Billions In Investments - What Happens Next? -- Post-Gazette Editorial: What Does Pittsburgh’s A.I.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2025

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Politics

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

In Energy Transition Investment Trends 2025, the energy analysts found that in 2024, clean energy investments reached a record high of $2.1tn and were responsible for the sector’s growth by 11%. By Anders Lorenzen A BloombergNEF (BNEF) report has revealed that 2024 was a bumper year for clean energy investments across the globe.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2025

Without them, Bill C-5 risks becoming a legal and political liability for the government, one that could trigger years of litigation, public backlash, and environmental harm, as well as slowing and delaying important nation-building projects. The proposed amendments are not about delay — they are about integrity.

Law

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2025

Photo Brett Walton/Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue January 31, 2025 BUCKEYE, Ariz. Were in an era of limits, Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, reiterated during a January 16, 2025, meeting to discuss new policies that could unlock homebuilding in the area.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

In addition, thirty volunteers continued the cleanup efforts, collecting 168 bags of litter, abandoned electronic devices and appliances, and over 300 political signs, which were recycled through an initiative started by Keep Chester County Beautiful , an affiliate of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

She explained how new prisons light the night sky along the Central Valleys prison alleythe result of the confluence of political and economic forces embedded in, and built on, the historical power of agriculture and resource extraction in the state ( Gilmore 2007 ). billion in 2025, adjusted for inflation). We can do better.

2007

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. and who is unable or unwilling to return to. Cruz Galicia v. As described above, the current immigration framework, specifically Section 208 of the INA, 8 U.S.C.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2025

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Natural Gas

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 10, 2025

Environmental Politics, 132. Weisskircher, M., & Volk, S. The People against the Sun? Ideology and Strategy in Far-Right Parties Climate Obstruction of Solar Energy. link] Abstract Far-right parties increasingly mobilize against climate action.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

We have a solar array that powers our own municipal buildings, said Katie Blume, Millheim Borough Council President and the Political & Legislative Director of Conservation PA. Posted: March 26, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

They have weathered various changes to the funding, political, regulatory, and public interest landscapes and remain dedicated to being part of the solution. Residents, Business Owners In Westmoreland [Posted: April 25, 2025] PA Environment Digest to Noon -- Williamsport Sun: Sen.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

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Politics

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

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Politics

A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

The third is that the 2025 PDP is expected to set out plans to build 3.5 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. GW of gas power plants, despite the fact that Thailand already has an overcapacity.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2025

Against this background, on May 2, 2025, Ocean Conservancy and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law hosted a workshop at Columbia Law School on offshore oil and gas decommissioning in the United States. Financial instability in the oil and gas sector, coupled with industry bankruptcies, has exposed significant flaws in current regulations.

Law

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

19 [PaEN] -- PA Sea Grant Names PA 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows: Nathaniel Edelheit-Rice, Sahara Rios-Bonilla, Chelsea Russ [PaEN] -- Gov. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 12 [PaEN] -- Three Rivers Waterkeeper Calls For Stronger Environmental Oversight Of U.S.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

But this is more political opportunism than productive problem solving. The industry has been steadily consolidating from 40 California refineries in 1983 to 13 in 2025 [i]. By 2025 the number of refineries had fallen 65 percent to 13, but their combined capacity had fallen just 30 percent, to 1.6

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

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Natural Resources

ESA

JULY 9, 2025

Heading to the 2025 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Baltimore ? How the process works may seem overly complex, leading to the myth that citizens are powerless in the face of special interests and partisan politics—but, nothing is farther from the truth.

2025

Nature

JULY 21, 2025

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Environmental Science

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

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Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

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Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Its a familiar frustration: will 2025 finally be the year these cases move forward? Courts are emerging as critical players in climate action, especially as a lack of political will and obstruction by fossil fuel interests continue to impede bold outcomes and accountability in international processes like the COP negotiations.

2025