Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3].

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Rainforest 2012 Carbon Dioxide 2002 40

Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

The environmental issue addressed here is that certain agricultural practices, like converting forests to ranchland, release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and severely disrupt ecosystems. Additionally, approximately 13% of the world’s net carbon dioxide. 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Deforestation Government Law Carbon Dioxide 40

Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is a major carbon sink.

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Carbon Dioxide Ocean Climate Change Earth Day 58

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] The vote on it was 24-9. 26] About 8,000 facilities are required to report. [27] 2] See, e.g., Jacqueline M. Vallette and Kathryne M.

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Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. There are also question marks over the commitment of the new Japanese government. Photo credit: GOV.UK. What is COP26? Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is still presiding over the disastrous destruction of the Amazon.

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Paris Agreement Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide 2030 98

ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” In addition, we encourage states to implement clean energy strategies that reduce emissions.

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2022 Endangered Species Act Ocean Regulations 52