Ocean Conservancy
APRIL 18, 2022
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Because it spans the entire government, though, it has many provisions relating to climate change. For the first time, the bill also authorizes the federal government to purchase carbon that has been removed from the air or the ocean. The omnibus spending bill is by no means a “climate law.” They aren’t dramatic step forward.
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The Energy Law Blog
JUNE 14, 2023
On June 8, 2023, the Ocean Policy Committee (composed of members from the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy) published a Request for Information, seeking input on developing an “Ocean Justice Strategy.” Comments are due by July 24, 2023.
The Energy Law Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Within the first six weeks of 2022, both state and federal governments have taken steps toward offshore wind energy development off the coast of Louisiana. This action entails collaboration between Louisiana agencies and the federal government, as well as transmission planning agencies, energy regulators, utilities, and the private sector.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The most prominent of these was a “30×30” commitment: to conserve thirty percent of the earth’s lands, oceans, coastal areas, and inland waters by 2030. In April 2022, California’s Natural Resources Agency released “Pathways to 30×30,” which lays out the Newsom administration’s plan to get there.
Environment, Law, and History
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Often, instead of carefully tailoring a regime to the new resource, decisionmakers simply rely on mechanisms they are familiar with. When jurisdictions borrow from each other, scholars call this a “legal transplant”—as when one state copies another state’s innovations or when the federal government learns from the “laboratories of democracy.”
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1] This would give tribal governments a fuller voice in development processes that affect tribal communities and resources.
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