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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

City of New York , a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment and other building owners seeking to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the City’s largest buildings. But it also offers a broader primer to local governments elsewhere.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Monterey County Oil Field (credit: Monterey County Weekly) For the first two decades of this century, and under the able leadership of former Chief Justices Ronald George and Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the California Supreme Court was quite active in interpreting and shaping California environmental law. Well, break’s over.

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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

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. The August 14th Held v. The August 14th Held v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

When diplomacy needs backup, countries turn to resolve their disputes at the ICJ, the United Nations’ principal judicial organ, to set the tone for international law. As an advisory body, the court provides legal opinions on international law questions. What is an advisory opinion?

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A Greener Life

MAY 5, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen One of the highest courts in the UK has dealt the government an embarrassing blow to its climate strategy. In a case brought by organisations Friends of the Earth, Client Earth and the Good Law Project, the High Court ruled that the government had not done enough to cut emissions and ordered it to redraw the plans.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As I did the last time Leiter posted these totals, I thought it might be helpful to our readers to have a list that is focused on US scholars who work substantially or primarily on environmental and energy law. I also differ from Leiter in including scholars who are currently in government service in my totals. Vandenbergh. Vanderbilt.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Energy law used to be an obscure niche subject. Energy law is a hot topic. Law students are thronging to the field, seeing an opportunity to combine social relevance with good-paying jobs. Top law schools are responding by competing for faculty. The post The Renaissance of Energy Law appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Green , and James Bee On 18 December 2023, the UK government announced a proposal for a new carbon border adjustment mechanism (UK CBAM). The government intends the UK CBAM to work alongside the UK ETS to mitigate the risk of carbon leakage. Davies , Michael D.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2022

These blog posts summarize our recent article in Ecology Law Quarterly , coauthored with my collaborator Moira O’Neill. In this blog post, we’ll summarize the relevant law. CEQA generally requires disclosure and feasible mitigation of significant environmental impacts from government-approved development projects in the state.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Someone asked me recently what I thought law schools should be teaching about climate change. There are many important societal issues that don’t get high priority in law school, such as the availability of health care or public health law. Law student interests aren’t entirely driven by career needs, however.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

Problems with the current Impact Assessment Act always meant the current assessment designation of Highway 413 would eventually need to be discontinued and re-instituted under an updated version of the law.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2021

For the last century, the Supreme Court has tried to operationalize the idea that a government regulation can be so burdensome that it amounts to a seizure of property. The Supreme Court held that, because the government was authorizing an intrusion onto farmland, this was a taking of property that the government would have to pay for.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Credit: ABA for Law Students. For the first 130 years of the American nation’s history, the Takings Clause was widely understood to apply only to government’s physical seizure of private property. One hundred years ago this month, the U.S. In the December 1922 decision Pennsylvania Coal Company v.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite this, a year later, Imperial Oil has not faced charges or penalties under the Fisheries Act or provincial environmental protection laws. “It Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. One of the incidents spilled 5.3 million litres of industrial waste.

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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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National Law Center

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2023, lawsuits were filed against state governments in Indiana, Arkansas, Virginia, and Alaska alleging that state hemp laws and regulations. The post Legal Challenges to State Hemp Laws and Regulations appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

In a new paper published today, the Sabin Center explores the governance challenges associated with ocean CDR research and (if deemed appropriate) deployment. That sort of in-ocean activity could raise a host of issued under international law.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In a recent post , I analyzed the California Legislature’s recent passage and Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing into law of two important bills–SB 9 and SB 10–designed to confront California’s well-documented housing crisis. Davis School of Law faculty colleagues Chris Elmendorf and Darien Shanske.).

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 2 PA Bulletin that MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

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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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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 5, 2023

Although jurists coincide in their understanding of the sea as a dangerous realm not governed by their civil law, the solutions which they provided for similar problems vary from jurist to jurist and from one period to another. Mataix Ferrándiz goes on to argue that Read more »

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

The federal government has tried to promote safety, access, and environmental programs, but has limited authority to do so, and local governments likewise have very little control over how highway funds are used (other than the grant-based programs like the Reconnecting Communities Pilot and Neighborhood Access and Equity Grants).

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As a compromise, California law (AB 398) has limited offsets to 4% of compliance obligations for the 2021-2025 period and capped the offsets without in-state benefits that can be utilized for compliance. . The post Governing Emissions Trading in California and China appeared first on Legal Planet. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 3, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Jim Ratcliffe, the UK’s richest man and the founder and CEO of Ineos , the petrochemical giant, who perversely pays little UK tax as he resides in the tax haven of Monaco, has won UK government backing from a giant fossil fuel project which campaigners have labelled as climate wrecking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EU battery law seeks to increase circularity through a plethora of measures that the US can replicate. The law also requires the increased sharing of information about the battery type and use, making repurposing and recycling more efficient. Essentially, it is decoupling economic activity from resource extraction.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 21, 2021

Our Encyclopedia on Energy Law, Climate Change and the Environment has now been published and may be ordered at Edward Elgar. This volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law provides an overview of the major elements of energy law from a global perspective.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 27, 2023

“Government enforcement is increasing across the globe.” ” Since the return to in-person work, we’ve seen governments around the world increase their resources and focus on fraud enforcement. Is your company protected?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On Friday, October 7th, the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at U.C. Davis School of Law will convene a major, day-long conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. Davis School of Law. The event will assess the progress the U.S. Hall, the U.C. It is free to attendees.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 13 PA Bulletin that Eyoyo is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Manufacturers must also pay an annual registration fee and submit a recycling plan and annual report.

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Environmental Law Centre

MAY 25, 2023

The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 2: Oil Sands Fluid Tailings Management Part 1 of this blog (see here) looked at the end of. The post The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 2 appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Environmental Law Centre

MAY 24, 2023

The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 1: Management of Liabilities, Orphans and Post-closure Sites The management of oil and gas liability in Alberta is. The post The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 1 appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. We spent years fighting for much-needed legislation to strengthen Canada’s environmental laws and fix the broken project review process. That’s why we’re in court defending this law.

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