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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

States Filed Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Changes to the Endangered Species Act Regulations. Seventeen states, the District of Columbia, and New York City filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Northern District of California challenging amendments to the regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

Legal Planet

At any rate, avoiding steps towards regulation would leave them free to develop norms and policy on SRM as they see fit. In 2019 those wishing to see further assessment of geoengineering pinned the collapse on EU demands for precaution and the combination of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and SRM in the same resolution.