Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Ontario government has failed to comply with its legislative obligation to respond to this request and has also failed to respond to an Information and Privacy Commissioner Order. The government is now under criminal investigation by the RCMP. This case is important to upholding the integrity of the access to information system. “We’re

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2023

The post Federal Government Advances Big Water Projects appeared first on Circle of Blue. “It means that every utility now really, really, really needs to go and get earmarks because they can’t count on the SRF funding in the state to be high enough,” she said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2021

First, the bad: The federal scientific workforce—in other words, the scientists and experts who work for the government on behalf of the public—needs help. Here at the Union of Concerned Scientists, we have bad news and good news. That workforce is aging quickly. It’s not as diverse as it should be. And federal agencies have […].

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Yale E360

JUNE 2, 2023

government, can finally go to trial. A federal judge has ruled that a high-profile climate lawsuit, brought by a group of Oregon youth against the U.S. Read more on E360 →

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Yesterday, Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer issued a report detailing how “to implement the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing the climate crisis.” The post New Report Details Massachusetts Whole-of-Government Approach to Climate Crisis first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Municipal drinking water failures like the crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, are also threats to government legitimacy. Teodoro, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Circle of Blue that tap water in the United States is the “most intimate relationship between a government and its people.”

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 23, 2023

It’s been an eventful last few years for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), as increasing stakeholder demand for companies to improve their sustainability transparency has transformed the business world, pushing ESG discussions into places they’d never been.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The post Governments of Canada and Ontario Invest $11.3M CHAR’s high temperature pyrolysis (HTP) process converts woody biomass to simultaneously produce two highly profitable green outputs ready for industrial application without generating greenhouse gases. in Woody Biomass Facility appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In that case, Our Children’s Trust represented a group of Oregon youths who sued the federal government, seeking redress for what the children claimed was the government’s failure to protect them from the environmental, health and economic damage wreaked by climate change. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The conservative government in Ontario is pushing for changes to the province’s wetlands policy that would loosen protections for “provincially significant wetlands.”. “If Even though the government wants to offset losses by building replacement wetlands, ecologists say that it’s not a one-to-one trade. Ohio ’s governor announces $2.4

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In a recently published paper , we explore the emerging possibilities of green infrastructure through a governance lens, focusing on large scale implementation. Our findings suggest that LSGI projects face intertwined governance challenges that flow from their core strength: LSGI’s multi-benefit nature. Cano Pecharroman et al.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As governments in California and across the United States wrestle with how to address soaring housing costs, a significant flashpoint has been the issue of local control. Most land-use regulation in the United States is done by local governments: cities, counties, towns, villages.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Mayors must deliver a resounding “no” to this corrupt, anti-democratic push that would subject boundary decisions to the same corrupting forces that led the provincial government to force sprawl on their communities in the first place. We trust they have the intelligence and integrity not to fall for it.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The United States government has questions about China’s goals and intentions, and about how to respond at a time when US-China relations are deteriorating. China is becoming an active international conflict mediator. More importantly, they said that countries welcome this value neutral approach.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Seeking to offset rising energy costs, governments spent more than $1 trillion on subsidies for the consumption of fossil fuels last year, an all-time high. Read more on E360 →

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The documents also offer evidence that Ministers’ offices, other than that of Housing Minister Steve Clark, were involved as early as January 2022, prior to the June 2022 election, and yet the government still kept Ontario voters in the dark. Of the four requests, two have now resulted in partial releases.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. Getting enough money from the state and federal governments to help maintain city services has become a struggle for many Michigan municipalities. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 25, 2023

After Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted to ban new oil wells in a prized national park, the government challenged the legitimacy of the referendum and said it would continue drilling. Read more on E360 →

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 19, 2023

from the UK Government appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. With support from the FIF, Entopy and Fujitsu will explore how Atamai Freight can be expanded to include other modes of transport The post Atamai Freight Solution to Receive $8.7M

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. But the water crisis is global, and it can be solved only with transformational thinking and new governance. Women in Rajasthan, a state in northern India, gather water.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Our goal is to meet local governments where they are in their EV planning processes, build momentum, and ensure these communities are the focus of policymakers’ efforts to decarbonize transportation. The post How Can Local Governments Plan for Equity in EV Infrastructure? Download as PDF. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 3, 2022

In an effort to “redress inequities in [Federal] policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity,” the Biden administration has set forth an agenda to identify areas of improvement and advance equity across the Federal Government. Reporting agency results is vital in tracking agency progress and creating public transparency.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 4, 2023

ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE (environmentaldefence.ca): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities. –

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Guiding the summit’s discussions was the newly released “Global Indigenous Agenda for the Governance of Indigenous Lands, Territories, Waters, Coastal Seas and Natural Resources,” authored by the IUCN Indigenous partner organizations. A measure of success from this summit would be a change in the tune of future government decisions.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As more local governments in California and around the country develop robust climate action plans–and as federal action to reduce emissions remains unpredictable as ever–it is increasingly clear that local strategies will be a key driver of decarbonization and resilience. . The post How Can Local Governments Pay for Climate Action?

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called the social cost of carbon—will be considered in federal agencies’ budgets, permitting decisions and, eventually, government purchases

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

The post Governing Emissions Trading in California and China appeared first on Legal Planet. Later this summer, our team will release a second report on California’s experience on emissions trading with further analysis of the California carbon ETS, the RECLAIM trading system, and China’s national carbon ETS. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Negotations to form a coalition government are complicated. Several options to form a new government are on the table and it is, thus, important to take a closer look at the election manifestos of the main parties to establish overlap on energy and climate issues. The Social Democrats (SPD) came out top in Germany`s general elections.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 22, 2023

While there are exceptions, this purpose governance gap creates risk for companies and society … Continue reading Closing the purpose governance gap Research by Corporate Knights shows that board mandates as reflected in their charters fail to set out the board’s role in oversight of the company’s purpose.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Ontario government could make things better by putting trucks on the 407 immediately, but instead is pushing Highway 413 as an expensive, destructive and sprawl-enabling alternative that has been shown by previous studies to save drivers less than 60 seconds.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 23, 2023

Two First Nations in Canada have forged historic agreements governing industrial development on their ancestral lands. Read more on E360 →

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The UK government has again come under criticism for it’s climate commitments as they earlier this week gave the go-ahead to the controversial Rosebank oil field in the North Sea. It is argued by Equinor and the UK government that by electrifying the extraction process it becomes less emissions-intensive.

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Eco Justice

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In the past few weeks, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his government has been determined to trample on laws and policies that have protected Ontarians and the places that we. The post The Ford government is trying to sell off our natural heritage appeared first on Ecojustice.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The federal government must move swiftly to restore the constitutional legality of the Act. The post The Federal Government Must Move Swiftly to Restore the Constitutionality of the Impact Assessment Act appeared first on Environmental Defence. This is good news.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 20, 2023

The federal government also indicated it will not immediately approve proposed increases to the amount of glyphosate permitted on imported foods. This is a temporary victory for environmental and health groups, who reiterate their call for the government to reject the proposed increases. 714, vjones@ecojustice.ca

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yet the Government of Alberta has shown no urgency in addressing these mounting environmental liabilities, beyond subsidizing the same companies responsible for the mess. The price tag to clean up that mess is at least $120 billion – and mounting.

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