Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It is rare that a law professor gets to say with some justification, “I told you so.” Or, more precisely, Mark Wu and I predicted the current conflict pitting the United States against the rest of the world in our 2015 Northwestern Law Review piece, “ Next Generation Trade and Environment Conflicts.”

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

American cities, towns, counties, and other forms of local government have pioneered path-setting approaches to economy-wide decarbonization, including market-moving clean energy procurements, remaking the building construction landscape, routing polluting vehicles out of center cities, and much more. Cities around the U.S.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Weeks before the November 8 election, national political debate centers on control of Congress. Wilce is the treasurer of Arizona Water Defenders, the political action committee that brought the question to the ballot. While state-level decisions this year are about money, local initiatives focus on law and policy.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

See Public Law 101-606 (11/16/90) 104 Stat. We specifically urged the authors to acknowledge the need for effective climate resilience planning and to discuss the limited extent of such planning today by electric utilities, system operators, and others in the energy industry. 3096-3104, § 101(b). Participating entities include the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” Besides being fundamentally misguided and difficult to implement, these blacklist laws are incompetently drafted and quite likely unconstitutional. Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Moreover, it is important for regional or national governments to prioritize meeting the targets set by the Paris Agreement, supporting cities in their efforts. This target has been incorporated into the National Climate Agreement, a binding law that ensures political commitment to implementation.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Coal clearly does not have the same clout as oil and gas, either in domestic politics or international negotiations. Subsection (g) calls for accelerating use of zero emission vehicles (basically, electric cars and trucks), as well as public transportation. Transportation. Also significant is the attention to the transportation sector.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Starting as a staff attorney at the Commission in 2001, she spent several years practicing administrative regulatory law. Prior to her career at the Commission, Barrow spent time working as a Law Clerk for the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board in Harrisburg. She received her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Courts in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom have provided oversight of government climate mitigation actions. The Czech Republic joins the Netherlands, France, Germany and other EU countries in determining a government’s duty to mitigate climate change. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Climate change needs government scale intervention. That’s clear and it’s why we work to hold the government accountable. We have the technology and know-how to embrace the solutions at our fingertips and start urgently scaling-up their implementation, so what’s holding the government back? What were they able to achieve?

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Ironically, the country already gets a lot of its electricity supply via interconnectors from France – produced through nuclear energy.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The world—and more specifically national governments, especially the richest nations and corporate interests—should concede that it is not feasible for us to make it on foot, but we still have lots of options to make it. And this last warning leads to enough momentum to get out the door and we make the bell. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The same month Chinese authorities closed Toyota and Foxconn factories in Sichuan province, a leading manufacturing center, after a record-breaking heat wave curtailed hydropower output and strained the electric grid. Legal scholars called the targeting of essential infrastructure a violation of international law. Keith Schneider.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2022

Rally sends strong message to all political parties: Ontarians expect climate and environmental leadership from the next government. As Ontarians take to the polls, residents are calling for a government that takes environmental protection and climate change seriously. They’ll make it worse.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Witmer of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, focusing on electric, natural gas and water issues, as well as cybersecurity and the impact of environmental regulation on energy markets. “I In addition, he ran the State Energy Office and was charged with coordination of renewable energy and energy efficiency issues.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

New Interactive Site Shows Allegheny County Drop-Off Locations -- PennLive: Inventor Of Heinz Plastic Ketchup Bottle Is Now Waging War on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ -- Gettysburg College Awarded NOAA Grant To Improve Watershed Education, Training In Pennsylvania -- DCNR Blog: Safely Navigating Pennsylvania’s Trails - How To Read Trail Blazes -- Spotlight (..)

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

An entity classified as an “arm of the state” would be entitled to sovereign immunity provided by the Eleventh Amendment; in contrast, a “political subdivision” is not afforded the same protection. The burden of proof falls on the entity seeking immunity and SRA-L failed to meet its burden.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Constitution, the legislature adopts the laws under which state agencies operate, but responsibility for implementing those laws rests with executive branch agencies like DEQ. Aside from the constitutional issue, legislative intervention in a permitting action sets a precedent for direct political intervention in permit decisions.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. New production processes will be necessary, with low and zero-emissions electricity, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reach net-zero.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” and “what are Scope 3 GHG emissions (. We have been doing this GHG work since 2005.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The law will provide $379 billion in subsidies to clean energy in the form of direct payments and tax credits. The most recent report , from a Princeton research group, concludes that IRA would: cut annual emissions in 2030 by an additional ~1 billion metric tons below current policy (including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law).

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

A lot of this is the scale of funding—the two laws will spend money on climate policies at a far higher rate than any previous federal programs—but the laws will also involve the federal government more in climate policy, in a variety of ways. These changes come at a crucial time for the fight against climate change.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Instead, the U.S. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Qualification is the entry to doing business with the federal government as to federal leasing. In order to hold a federal offshore lease, right-of-way, right-of-use and easement, or alternate use right-of-use and easement, a person or entity must first become qualified by BOEM. 556.400; 30 C.F.R. 585.107(a).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

This political rollercoaster ride was also unfolding across last year’s Danger Season , stressing the urgency of the need to act big, and act now. And just as suddenly, on August 16, 2022, the bill became law: the largest-ever one-time federal investment in climate action that humanity has ever seen. It was simply awesome.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dylan White , and Sam Wong As countries around the world accelerate the transition to clean energy, the race to gain shares in the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing market is intensifying, with global sales of EVs rising 31% in 2023. [1] News, Global Electric Car Sales Rose 31% in 2023 – Rho motion (Jan. 18741(a)(5). [5]

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. In fact, there are important aspects of these recent price shocks that stem directly from the choices governments have made about how to price energy. Photo credit: Matthew Smith, Flickr.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

At the highest level, the contiguous United States is composed of three electrical grids: the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. Interconnections and regional entities (Source: North American Electric Reliability Corporation). Governance would expand beyond state borders.

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Environmental Progress

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to flag election and Covid misinformation to social media platforms in 2020 and 2021 say that they didn’t break the law. Researchers asked by the U.S. But the First Amendment of the U.S. In so doing, they pioneered the misdescription of censorship laundering as “cyber-security.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Australia has had a change of government. The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. So the change in government is more than welcome. Climate change wasn’t a central issue in the campaign, but resistance to climate action no longer provided a political advantage.

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