Yale E360
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Robin Wall Kimmerer, the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass , recently published The Serviceberry , which explores the economies of nature. In an e360 interview, the Native American ecologist discusses reciprocity, gratitude, and aligning human law with ecological law.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Wetlands exist in almost every corner of the United States, representing a total area larger than the state of California. While some have federal or state protection, many do not. And despite the proximity of wetlands to many communities in this country, few people truly understand either the value wetlands hold for our way of life or the threat they face from our industrialized system of agriculture.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The California Senate just took a critical step toward confronting unhealthy air quality in environmental justice communities through the introduction of a new Senate Bill 526. This proposed legislation aims to curb dangerous dust emissions from aggregate facilities in the South Coast Air Basin, where industrial pollution has long threatened public health and the environment.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
The Future is Green: Amending State Constitutions to Safeguard the Environment for Future Generations By Natalie Schaffer Modern America swings between two futures: one that chants drill, baby, drill and another that preaches reduce, reuse, recycle. For many, the future we look to depends on the person in power, and because of the constantly shifting whims of politics, that future is continuously changing.
Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management
In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People Bobsled fans watching Team Canada compete at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Cup in Norway today may have noticed something unusual. Credit: GDF Media / Gisle Johnsen Environmental Defence Canada sponsored one of the Canadian athletes competing in Norway, Jay Dearborn, to draw attention to sponsorship by oil and gas companies.
Ocean Conservancy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
This blog was written by Hannah De Frond. Hannah works with Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto Trash Team to manage the International Trash Trap Network (ITTN), a global network of local groups using trash traps to increase cleanup efforts, engage communities and inform upstream solutions. During coastal cleanup events, no matter where you are in the world, chances are youll encounter plastic items like bottles, bottle caps, straws and packaging.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Sea levels are rising, and science shows they will continue to rise for generations due to heat-trapping emissions that have already been released. This highlights a profound and enduring climate injustice: future generations will face the consequences of todays decisions. The effects of these emissions are already unfolding, but the full extent of their impacton coastlines, communities, and ecosystemswill play out over lifetimes to come.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Supreme Court tends to get all the attention, but for every Supreme Court opinion on environmental law there are probably fifty opinions in the lower federal courts. Collectively, the lower courts have done fat least as much to shape the law than the Supreme Courts occasional interventions. Any top ten list is a bit arbitrary. Given the sheer number of lower court cases, my selection will reflect chance which lower court cases I happen to know the most about as well as personal judgment.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
We Paved Paradise to Put Up with Parking Lots Angie Kaufman At first glance, the American parking lot may seem, well, boring; perhaps its helpful and convenient at best, benign at worst. However, the effects of parking reach far and wide as it drives urban sprawl, housing shortages, inequitable costs, and spatial injustice. Parking takes up nearly one third of the land in United States cities.
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, KEEPERS OF THE WATER, ALBERTA WILDRNESS ASSOCIATION Joint statement on the appointment of Rob Morgan as CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator Treaty 8 Territory | Alberta The appointment of Rob Morgan, former CEO of Strathcona Resources, as the new head of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), completely undermines the credibility of Albertas regulatory body tasked with protecting our lands, waters, and communities from the harms of fossil fuel extraction.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern Europe. By Bob Berwyn New research by an international team of climate scientists documents a surge of global warming during the past 15 years that risks shutting down a key ocean current by 2050.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Wind turbines are being installed at the Tyligulska wind farm. Photo credit: DTEK. By Anders Lorenzen Amid increasing concern and anxiety in Ukraine about the war efforts, the largest wind farm in Ukraine , the Tyligulska wind farm, has received a welcome boost, allowing for the second phase to commence of the historic wind farm , which was constructed and the first phase opened in 2023, during the war between Russian and Ukraine.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
This post was co-authored by Dr. Astrid Caldas What is your morning routine? Wake up, maybe make coffee, tea, or other morning beverage or meal, check the weather. It is something most people do in the USoffice workers, outdoor workers, farmers, fishermen, stay-at-home folks. No matter what ones life is like, most of us are going to go outside, and most of us check the weather.
HumanNature
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Guest Post by Kathy Condon , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University The world is warming, and with that comes more extreme weather, more often. We are already seeing increases in extreme weather and climate conditions from more frequent fluctuations between floods and droughts in the Midwest to more severe hurricanes affecting the coasts.
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Environmental Attorneys Push Vermont to Take CAFOs Seriously By Julia Wickham Americans eat meat. And lots of it. To satisfy consumer demand, land use needs, and workforce availability, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are the predominate means of livestock production in the United States. Recently, a coalition of environmental groups brought suit against the EPA for their lack of Clean Water Act (CWA) oversight surrounding CAFOs.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The Trump Administration has asked Congress to kill Californias current clean car and truck regulations. The process is a bit circuitous. Congress wouldnt directly overturn the California regulations. Instead, Congress would overturn an EPA order that waives federal preemption of EPAs regulations. The problem is that the statute which authorizes this kind of congressional action does not apply here.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Trump administrations declared aim is to eliminate U.S. foreign aid agency. A USAID water project in Ethiopia, in 2017. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue February 4, 2025 The attempt by President Donald Trump and his aide, Elon Musk, to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, a global leader in humanitarian assistance, is short-sighted and will do long-term harm to millions of people who benefit from its programs,
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Resilience offers a forward-looking approach to corporate climate action and energy transition strategy. Image credit: Getty Images. By Bernice Lee Following the Paris Agreement, corporate enthusiasm for climate action surged, with net-zero commitments and the energy transition taking a central role in both government and business agendas. However, political shifts and implementation challenges have slowed that momentum.
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Three years after Ontarios government committed to building more homes faster, the number of homes built in Ontario is dramatically down and government sources show that without radical change fewer than half of the 1.5 million homes promised will be built by 2031. Ontario has had all the tools it needs to house a fast-growing population, even with high interest rates.
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Wildfires, floods, intense heat, droughts, and other extreme events fueled by climate change are threatening water systems in the U.S. and around the globe. Experts warn of the increasing threat of contamination and the need to improve infrastructure to keep drinking water safe.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The Climate Is Changing in the United States: Preserving Environmental Interests in a New Administration By Eric Grimes President Trump made his intentions for United States environmental interests clear within hours of his inauguration. Among the slew of executive orders President Trump passed on his first day in office was an order withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement, another authorizing unlimited oil drilling, and another gutting green initiatives across the country.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Californias Advanced Clean Car II (ACCII) regulations are set to go into effect starting with model year 2026 vehicles. These rules include requirements that automakers provide Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) for sale in California in increasing volume through 2035. In the last few weeks, there has been a flurry of misleading information about how these rules work and the ability of industry to meet them.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
On the morning of Feb. 18, 2015, pent-up gases at ExxonMobils refinery in Torrance triggered an explosion so powerful it registered as a magnitude 1.7 earthquake and sent industrial ash over entire neighborhoods. Its been called the near-miss disaster that most people have never heard of. But that near miss is raising new calls to ban a toxic chemical that is still used in Torrance to this day.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
By Anders Lorenzen A BloombergNEF (BNEF) report has revealed that 2024 was a bumper year for clean energy investments across the globe. In Energy Transition Investment Trends 2025, the energy analysts found that in 2024, clean energy investments reached a record high of $2.1tn and were responsible for the sector’s growth by 11%. The electrification of transport, renewable energy and power grids were the most popular investments. $757bn was invested in electrified transport which led the wa
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
On February 17, the Northampton, Bucks County, Municipal Authority is taking a critical step in addressing Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) contamination in the region by beginning Phase 1 of its Navy PFAS Remediation Project. This initiative, funded by the United States Navy, will connect PFAS affected properties to the public water system ensuring residents have access to clean and safe drinking water while properly abandoning contaminated wells.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The Rundown EPA moves to weaken water-efficiency standards for appliances and faucets. Army Corps research center wants to investigate the use of insects to control a water-guzzling grass in southern California. Federal judge orders Trumps foreign aid freeze unfrozen. Senate Democrats call attention to harm from federal funding suspension. Water bills in Congress would reauthorize Colorado River conservation and Great Lakes restoration programs, shield water utilities from PFAS liability , and o
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
image used with public share permission from: ProtectThackerPass.org/resources While Were Here: Acknowledging Harm in Federal Green Initiatives By Ariana Richmond On day one in office, the new administration canceled climate change initiatives. Executive Order 14154 eliminated the electric vehicle (EV) mandate,” revoked twelve executive orders addressing the climate crisis, and attempted to override bipartisan climate change legislation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Its almost the end of Californias wet season. California is in a Mediterranean climate zone, characterized by long, dry summers and short, wet winters. Snow is a crucial part of our year-round water supply, serving as a natural reservoir and providing up to a third of our water supply. Today, the California Department of Water Resources conducted a snow survey to determine how much snow we have stockpiled to date.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) of the Department of Justice faces its most profound crisis since it was established in 1909. In a little over a week, the Trump administration has (1) reassigned four career managers (leading nearly half of ENRDs sections) to the newly formed Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement; (2) placed career attorneys working in ENRDs Office of Environmental Justice on administrative leave; (3) suspended the nearly 75-year-old Honors Program for entr
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Temperatures in cities that are home to NFL teams have risen nearly 3 degrees Fahrenheit since 1970, a new analysis concludes. By Kristoffer Tigue The Minnesota Vikings may be used to playing in the cold, but their hometown of Minneapolis is warming faster than almost every other city with a professional football team.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
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