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Ontario Auditor General’s Environment Audits Reveal a Government That’s Abandoned Its Obligation to Protect the Environment

Enviromental Defense

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.14.23

PA Environment Daily

. -- Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project Finds Results ‘Very Concerning’ From University Of Pittsburgh Studies Showing Links Between Natural Gas Development And Lymphoma Cancer, Worsening Asthma Conditions, Lower Birth Weights (..)

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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

Circle of Blue

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. In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. And state governments began to secure those same rights for individuals in their constitutions.

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Our Interim Energy Options During the Energy Transition: Natural Gas, Solar Power, WTE?

Vermont Law

Consider natural gas as a source of energy. Compared to coal, natural gas is certainly a. presently hostile political administration. Solar power may be the green-energy solution of the future but not until the government steps into the light on this issue. than natural gas. cleaner source.

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Clean Air Council Celebrates Joseph Minott's 40 Year Commitment To Leading The Council, And To The Environment

PA Environment Daily

And in the early 2000’s when fracking was falsely seen as transitional energy, Joe purposely grew the legal team to oppose natural gas expansion. Working for the Council, Joe and his legal team have sued the federal government, the state government, local governments, and the fossil fuel industry.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove.