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Environmentalism and the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

This was a case under the Endangered Species Act. The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals. This decision made the Endangered Species Act the strongest of the environmental statutes.

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Environmental groups heading to court to protect endangered piping plover population at Ontario beach

Enviromental Defense

Case challenges habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Habitat loss and degradation threaten the species’ survival and recovery – and beach raking has been identified as a threat to their habitat.

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Environmental Defence congratulates the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party on its election win and seeks rapid action on key environmental issues 

Enviromental Defense

Do this by restricting the use of Minister’s Zoning Orders, reversing changes that weakened Conservation Authorities, the Growth Plan and Planning Act and the Endangered Species Act. Move away from a wasteful and polluting linear econom y and embrace circular approaches that avoid waste in the first place.

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The Big Sprawl and the Ontario election

Enviromental Defense

They will push dignified housing even further out of reach for more Ontarians, and consign most Ontarians to wasteful suburbs where greenhouse gas emissions are sky high because we can’t easily commute, shop, or run errands without relying on a car.

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Removing Carbon Dioxide Through Seaweed Cultivation: Legal Challenges and Opportunities

Law Columbia

At the international and regional levels, these include the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, and the Protocol to that Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nation Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the European Union Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

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N.C. Water Quality Legislation (2023)

Smith Enviorment

The Clean Water Act requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for any release of waste to surface waters. Permitted waste disposal facilities (such as landfills) have a groundwater “compliance boundary” that (for most facilities) extends 250 feet from the waste disposal area.

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It’s Time to Stop Kicking the Can and Ban Canned Hunting

Vermont Law

Humane Slaughter Acts. However, the Animal Welfare Act has. exceptions to the Endangered Species Act. can permit private ownership and hunting of listed species. hunting regulations can be circumvented by classifying species as livestock rather than wild animals. Further, in some cases. documented.