Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. and the third branch of government, the courts, are the new frontier for driving global warming policy for the nation. State of Montana , against their state government. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. As environmental degradation and climate change intensify, society increasingly turns to digital technologies to live more sustainably and protect biodiversity and other natural resources, such as land, water, and energy.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

More than a year later , this once-in-a-generation investment approximately doubled the funding available for the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) core conservation programs. Historically cooler climates, too, are experiencing these sorts of rapid and unpredictable shifts. We just cannot predict what will happen.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

On April 19, the Brandywine Conservancy is excited to launch a new Climate Resiliency Initiative to help local municipalities and landowners proactively address climate change in their communities. Malvern Borough recognizes the challenges that our changing climate places on our operations, environment and infrastructure.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The conservative government in Ontario is pushing for changes to the province’s wetlands policy that would loosen protections for “provincially significant wetlands.”. “If Even though the government wants to offset losses by building replacement wetlands, ecologists say that it’s not a one-to-one trade. In the News.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 1965, scientists sent LBJ a memo mentioning the risks of climate change. Energy conservation would have been seen as a key environmental strategy, and we would have understood that that real solution to urban air pollution control was changing the energy mix away from fossil fuels in general and coal in particular.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Boris Johnson delivers climate change remarks at the UN General Assembly. With just weeks to go before COP26 kicks off, all eyes are on the British hosts and the Conservative government and its leader Boris Johnson. Even the president of COP26, Alok Sharma, has a record in parliament of being hostile to climate action.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal © 2023 by Ocean Visions Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is attracting increased attention as a possible climate change response strategy. The ocean is a globally shared resource and, as such, a number of international agreements have been developed to govern ocean-based activities.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Here are 94 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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 12, 2023

The letter was sent on behalf of more than 50 food, farm, conservation, and rural organizations. We feel strongly that investing in research at the intersection of agriculture and climate change is paramount for short-term and long-term efforts to safeguard the industry’s viability.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Take Action for Climate-Ready Fisheries. The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. The effects of climate change on marine ecosystems come at a cost to people, businesses and cultures.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Why would the government be ending it now with little notice?” Canadians are just now learning about heat pumps, the industry is booming, yet the government is pulling the rug out? The groups are calling on the Federal government to not only continue this program but to also expand the incentives to retrofit low-income homes.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Coastal fishing traditions that exist along the west coast are at risk to climate change. How do fishers view vulnerability and the impacts of climate change on fisheries? These communities depend on fishing for their livelihoods and traditional ways of life. Views on ocean warming and fisheries. More from sciencE

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

BLUE GREEN CANADA, CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES, CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS, CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK CANADA, THE COUNCIL OF CANADIANS, DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION, ECOJUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ÉQUITERRE, IRON + EARTH, PEMBINA INSTITUTE, 350.org It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some common threats to insect biodiversity include habitat loss, pesticide use, light pollution, invasive species, and climate change. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 22, 2023

For those states that declined to participate, the EPA offered program funding for several municipalities within those states to develop regional Climate Pollution Reduction Plans. Tribes and territories are also eligible to receive Climate Pollution Reduction Planning grants and will have to confirm their participation by June 15, 2023.

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HumanNature

MARCH 8, 2024

Written by Bella Conrad The Colorado State University Zero Waste Team held its first student-led presentation of the year on February 1 to discuss how ranchers and scientists can collaborate to conserve rangelands. Ranchers often distrust the government, too, because government agencies can easily take away their permits.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

On March 1, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn visited Reading to highlight grants available through the Community Conservation Partnership Program to plant trees in underserved cities and towns across the Commonwealth. Thanks to the federal Inflation Reduction Act, Pennsylvania is receiving $9.75

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

In October 2021, I had the honor of joining world leaders, activists and other representatives from non-governmental organizations in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP26). The central message of the conference was abundantly clear: the impacts of climate change are all around us.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Despite the ongoing debate on whether ITLOS has jurisdiction to issue an advisory opinion on climate change, if the Tribunal asserts jurisdiction (on jurisdiction, see here and here) , there is still much to uncover. Assuming the ITLOS will assert jurisdiction, this post’s objective is twofold.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. Most significantly, for the first time, Canada’s environmental assessments are legally required to consider a project’s climate impacts. Remember Bill C-69? So back to court we go.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. So the change in government was more than welcome.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

Conservation groups in Canada claim an electric utility is failing to appropriately restore habitats destroyed by hydroelectric dam projects. The shortages, caused by years of mismanagement and overextraction, are being exacerbated by climate change. Conservation groups say B.C. The Elk River. Photo © waferboard / Flickr.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2023

On January 18, the Brandywine Conservancy announced it ended 2022 with more than 500 total conservation easements held by the organization, while also exceeding 70,000 acres of land that have been permanently preserved through both direct and facilitated easements. These new milestones further cement our achievements in conservation.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. .

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Here are 120 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. Thank you for your leadership! -- We Remember Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

With our energy plan and innovative projects like PA PULSE, my Administration will create energy jobs, take real action to address climate change pollution, ensure consumers pay less on their bills, and continue to ensure Pennsylvania maintains its energy independence for years to come.” “We

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2022

trillion FY2022 omnibus spending package to fund the federal government through Sept. The Nature Conservancy engages deeply on advocacy for federal conservation funding, and we’re pleased to see the solid investments for conservation, climate resilience, and clean energy included in this bill. Photo © TNC.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

On June 7, the overwhelmingly confirmed Cindy Adams Dunn to serve as the Secretary of Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Secretary Dunn has spent her career in conservation and public service, previously serving as DCNR Secretary under Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. The Guardian writes that 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

That made an investor revolt last week over the giant mining company’s climate disclosures especially notable. It’s also notable that this took place in London, showing that investor worries about climate change are worldwide. These are people with real money at stake, unlike conservative politicians and talking heads.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 1, 2021

There’s a through line connecting academia, the Northwest Museum of Art, dirt, X-rays, economics, racial equity, conservation and science (to name but just a few), and that through line exists because of a collaborative partnership here in Washington state. Students are getting training on how to be practical, real conservation scientists.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Among the long list of grievances Ontarians already have, we can now add a number of others to the list: The Ontario government politicized the highway planning process and prioritized projects such as Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass over the recommendations made by ministry staff.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ontario government served with legal notice over carving up greenbelt lands. Changes to Hamilton’s official plan are the latest in a series of moves by the provincial government to push sprawl development into farmland, woodland, and wetlands.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Photo credit: Mark Anson On August 31, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced the availability of $65 million for the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. CIGs bring a wide range of partners to the table to support innovation.

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Building on the Lower Colorado Basin States’ compromise of May 22, 2023 , under which California, Arizona, and Nevada agreed to voluntarily conserve three million acre-feet of water over the next three years, DOI began a public process on June 15, 2023 , to attempt to “modernize” the way Colorado River water is distributed.

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