Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

That’s because the parties to the London Convention and London Protocol are meeting from October 28 to November 1 in London to discuss, among other things, governance of ocean alkalinity enhancement and ocean sinking of biomass (e.g. Some are land-based, while others use the ocean. seaweed) for carbon storage.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

Most significantly, the court held that—at least in principle—companies responsible for large-scale emissions can be held liable under German civil law for the climate-related harms they contribute to. In this post, we explain the facts and legal architecture of the case and some of the key highlights from the court’s judgment.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The one-year, paid fellowship is made possible by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Sea Grant College Program. Nathaniel says, “I have always been incredibly passionate about marine conservation and the interface of science and law in making positive change for our oceans.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

It is also necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (a process known as carbon dioxide removal or CDR). Alaska is thought to be an idea place for seaweed CDR projects, in part because local ocean conditions are well suited to growing seaweed, and also because the state has established processes for permitting seaweed farms.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Ocean-based CDR strategies, which aim to increase the oceans natural carbon sink capacity, are gaining attention. One such strategy, ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), involves adding alkaline substances to seawater so as to increase its ability to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and mitigate ocean acidification.

Ocean

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. ocean waters. judge-made) law.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2025

mCDR refers to ocean-based processes or techniques designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for long periods of time in the ocean. One commonly discussed mCDR technique is ocean alkalinity enhancement , which involves adding alkaline substances to ocean waters. How is mCDR affected?

Carbon Dioxide

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Additionally, the Supreme Court found that when considering whether an agency’s NEPA report complies with the law, reviewing courts should grant “substantial deference” to the agency. National Environmental Policy Act NEPA was signed into law on January 1, 1970.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

An investigation by the Office of Attorney General revealed that a gas well owned and operated by Equitrans at the Rager Mountain Storage Field in Cambria County leaked natural gas into the atmosphere for 14 days. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Natural Gas

National Law Center

AUGUST 12, 2025

FIFRA is the primary federal law regulating pesticide use in the United States. The ESA is one of the main wildlife protection laws in the United States. For more information on pesticides from the National Agricultural Law Center, click here. More information on the FIFRA registration process is available here.

Endangered Species Act

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

However, the IACtHR went further in AO-32/25 , pushing the boundaries of international human rights law by articulating an expansive conception of the rights of Nature as implicit in, or linked to, the right to a healthy environment because of the vital importance of healthy ecosystems and biodiversity that “make life on the planet possible” (para.

Climate Change

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. Share: Recent Posts Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. 5 U.S.C. §

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

The webinar is the latest installment in the NALC’s “Western Water” Webinar Series, which highlights pressing water law issues in the Western United States. NALC Director Harrison Pittman said the “Western Water” Webinar Series plays an important role in sharing legal insight on water law across the country.

2013

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reforming Oceanic Governance: A Department of Oceans by Joseph Lepak Current federal ocean governance is spread across a myriad of federal agencies in different departments and the time has come to bring them all together. law applies. Twelve nautical miles from shore to sea are the territorial waters, where full U.S.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

As NASA explains , over most of the last 800,000 years, until humans started burning fossil fuels, atmospheric CO 2 concentrations basically never went below 180ppm and never went above 280ppm. In the last sixty years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown 100 times faster than it did at the close of the last ice age.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act”) is the law that gives the President the authority to provide disaster response, recovery and preparedness assistance to state, local, tribal, or territorial (SLTT) governments. The Stafford Act (officially, the “Robert T.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This blog post was authored by 2024 Sabin Center Summer Intern, Arpana Giritharan, with input and supervision from Johanna Lovecchio, Director of Program Design for Climate Action and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Climate School, and Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2025

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is in the Trump administrations crosshairs. 2: Protecting endangered species NOAA is the US agency responsible for protecting endangered species found in US oceans (those living on land or rivers are covered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service).

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has tracked extreme weather and climate-related disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and floods. Nevertheless, fossil fuel industry proxies immediately filed lawsuits against the rule.

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 24 Jul The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 14, from July 24, 2025.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

Transformative levels of capital investment to implement climate solutions were urgently needed even with Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law programs–many of which funded locally-led investments centering public participation in the energy transition–in place. The headwinds facing climate efforts in the U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Accelerating sea level rise, ocean acidification and loss of major ice sheets also continue apace, with profound consequences for the planet. They clearly intend to use every means at their disposal (lawful or not) to roll back regulations to help address global warming pollution.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

As swarms of salmon migrate north to Oregon along the Klamath River, youth from across the region’s indigenous tribes kayak south through northern California to the Pacific Ocean — a 300-mile celebratory journey that would not have been possible just a year ago. What’s changed? ” Before 2024, experts at the U.S

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

These tax cuts, which are set to expire under current law, plus additional spending priorities, come at a steep cost, estimated at approximately $5-6 trillion. Congress should reinstate this important program and not allow the Trump administrations illegal overreach to be enacted into law.

Clean Energy

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that governs various agricultural and food programs in the United States. Under that law, conservation programs received around $18 billion in federal funding. Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol.

2013

Scientific American

AUGUST 6, 2025

Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images A landmark law passed more than 50 years ago to protect whales, dolphins and other marine mammals in U.S. waters has gone extinct, even as use of the ocean has increased. The draft amendments contradict Republican rhetoric about protecting ocean life.

Ocean

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0 , in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first hundred days of President Trumps second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, which will roll out over the course of the next week, click here.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

Law

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

This is a long shot at best, but if it works would allow the Administration to eliminate environmental law with a stroke of the pen. Another agency, NOAA studies ocean and atmospheric systems, providing crucial information about climate change. The head of EPA plans to go much farther, however. This makes for a depressing list.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Here in Los Angeles, recent demonstrations against ICE have been largely peaceful and nothing like past face-offs with law enforcement, though you wouldn’t know it from the burning Waymos that some national media are playing on a loop. It’s the topic of Season 12 of the Drilled Podcast by Alleen Brown.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2025

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency that researches and reports on timely weather patterns, climate science, and oceanic activity, told its employees to review any existing grants that help fund external climate research for impermissible terms like climate science, environmental quality, and pollution.

Government

National Law Center

JULY 10, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 10 Jul The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 12, from July 10, 2025.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

The planned cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to news reports , are not the equivalent of trimming but of sawing a whole tree down to the ground. The carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7 Bush respectively signed into law the Clean Water Act and the North American Wetlands Conservation Act in 1989. They all spend a portion of their lives in wetlands. million jobs.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

And we cant ignore this administrations shocking attacks on human rights, civil liberties, the rule of law, and the right to vote, without which we can’t build a healthier society that works for everyone. AAS: What are some of the ways UCS is responding?

Politics

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

Specifically, the instructions direct the committee to amend current budget-related laws to achieve the goals of the budget resolution. As the Congressional Research Service states , it “reconcile[s] current law with the fiscal objectives of the budget resolution.”

2013

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

The administration has shown some signs of support for efforts to capture carbon dioxide at power plants and other industrial facilities and remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, including in official statements and funding decisions. Given that this staff was likely to administer the program, its status is unclear.

Carbon Dioxide