Law Columbia
AUGUST 11, 2022
The plant generates electricity for about three million Polish households, which amounts to around 7% of the country’s output. The catalyst for the dispute was the Polish authorities’ concession extension to operate the mine until 2026 without carrying out an environmental impact assessment (EIA) as required by European Union (EU) law.
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.
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Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Precautionary Principle : Often a hot topic and subject to furious debate, this international standard promotes the concept through The Rio Declaration that to protect an environment, a precautionary approach must be applied according to their capability. Sponsored Content.
Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2024
Natural gas currently powers approximately 74% of Florida’s total net electricity generation.) Instead, the new legislation commits the state to continued reliance on fossil fuels in the future. The new state laws build on similarly wrong-headed fossil fuel-based policies that Governor DeSantis has embraced in recent years.
Vermont Law
APRIL 9, 2025
Economic costs notwithstanding, the precautionary principle applied in cases like Pfizer Animal Health v. The principle is that uncertainty in scientific evidence does not justify a delay in measures to protect the environment. Council of the European Union(2002) undergirds Greenlands ban on uranium mining.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Bad children, supposedly, will get only lumps of coal in their stockings. That could be taken as a metaphor for the anti-environmental programs coming down the line, but I have in mind something a bit less metaphorical.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
It was reported in January that a developer had filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court challenging the City of Santa Rosa’s law requiring appliances in new homes of three stories or less to use electricity rather than natural gas. The developer previously filed a lawsuit challenging a natural gas ban in the Town of Windsor.
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