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Show Time: Stark message from the International Energy Agency

Legal Planet

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Statements of urgency for strong climate action are correct and important, but are so numerous that they increasingly seem to get lost in the noise.

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

Law Columbia

Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court. Japan’s climate change context. Civil law cases. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List

Vermont Law

This year’s list includes a diverse array of topics, from concerns over our energy and transportation infrastructure; housing and land conservation; international and local climate change; food security and contamination; and water quality of our world’s oceans. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Conservatives Who Support Climate Action

Legal Planet

There is continuing conservative support for climate action. The British government is firmly in the grip of the Conservative Party. And yet, the UK remains firmly committed to climate action, in a way that would be unthinkable for American conservatives. Not so much here, of course, but in the UK. Download as PDF.

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Finalists to be Trump’s Veep Pick

Legal Planet

But Burgham, unlike Trump, isn’t a climate denier and has announced a target for the state to become carbon neutral by 2030. Rubio’s lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters is 7%. He has called climate change a “real problem” but opposes emission cuts and favors a focus on adaptation. Marco Rubio.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.3.24

PA Environment Daily

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.