Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2025

It makes utilities, like state government, liable for taking or damaging private property. If youre wondering about the terminology, condemnation takes place where the government sures to take property; inverse condemnation is when landowners sue because the government has already taken the property.

Government

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

2030

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

Treaty 6 Territory | Edmonton – After two years of tireless work by Indigenous communities, environmental organizations, and the public demanding governments hold Imperial Oil accountable for its egregious behaviour, the AER has finally laid charges against the company. Background: The Imperial Oil tailings disaster allowed 5.3

Regulations

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But what makes the case important is the courts use of hard look judicial review, which environmentalists have often used to attack bad regulations. It helped create the framework for regulating pesticides and upheld the use of a precautionary approach rather than requiring EPA to have definitive evidence. v.EPA (1975). EPA (2012 ).

Law

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The problem is that focusing on the challenges of litigation risks overlooking the second RoN strategy, one that may prove much more important in the USA over time — RoN through Governance. Instead, national legislation has created a governance structure for a forest, river, and lagoon. But, even here, the challenge remains.

Law

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

It is unlikely that the government will last long once Parliament resumes. At the top of the list of key climate regulations that need to be finalized before March 24th is the governments cap on pollution from the oil and gas industry. If a policy isnt finalized before March 24th, its unlikely to ever be. Time is ticking!

Politics

Legal Planet

JULY 7, 2025

We have strong agencies that issue strong regulations. We have all sorts of regulations they have to comply with. However, unlike the federal Endangered Species Act, CESA does not impose a duty on government actors to avoid jeopardizing the existence of listed species – those actors only must avoid taking members of listed species.

Endangered Species Act

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

This may seem like a setback for climate progress in Canada, but it simply underscores the limits of voluntary initiatives and the need for the government to enforce climate-aligned financial regulations. Surely, according to their own logic, their withdrawal from this alliance indicates that it is the perfect time for regulation?

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Circuit, the statute governing new railroad lines required the agency to consider a wide range of environmental impacts in deciding whether to approve the line. Agencies need not consider impacts that are remote in space and time, if those impacts are regulated by someone else. According to the D.C. It has two major flaws.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. It was a surprise that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The facts are quite unusual. Neither of those is in effect today. Thus, the relevance of any ruling to future agency actions is unclear.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

While the Alberta Energy Regulator has the ability, and responsibility, to hold companies that break the law to account, it has repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to enforce its own laws when it comes to industry rulebreakers — leaving Albertans to bear the costs and clean up the mess. billion Q2 profits from 2024.

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Given that you’ll regularly find kids chewing on a mitten or a coat collar, these types of PFAS exposures require immediate attention and action—action from the companies that make these products and from the federal government that should be setting stronger rules to protect us. People in Canada need federal leadership on PFAS.

Government

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 23, 2025

Nearly 90 per cent of respondents want the federal government to get toxic chemicals out of products, while 86 per cent support federal action on plastic pollution. People in every part of the country recognize the threat that runaway use of unnecessary plastics poses to our health and the environment, and want our government to tackle it.

Government

Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sabin Center has previously discussed the regulation of OAE here and here. A new Sabin Center report continues the conversation by focusing on the regulation of OAE in Washington State. OAE projects conducted in near-shore areas off the Washington coast may be subject to regulation at the federal, state, tribal and local levels.

Ocean

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s the government’s job to protect us and the environment from harmful chemicals in plastic…and they need to get on it While the plastics industry claims its products are sanitary and safe, the truth is much more complicated. Governments around the world, including in Canada, are caught up in the powerful plastics industry.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board. Yet would anyone say that the government should therefore ignore the risk of a lab accident. Other agencies may have jurisdiction over disease control.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. The report is intended to help policymakers harness satellite data to improve their climate policies, enforce emissions regulations, and accelerate methane reduction efforts.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

New Mexico, RETA: New Mexico is a regulated electricity market with the investor-owned utility, Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), serving most of the state. It is regulated by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC). RETA was established in 2007. CETA was established in 2021.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels. The ADF&G regulates seaweed cultivation, providing aquatic farm operation permits. for human consumption).

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

This process mirrors China’s broader governance style—flexible and adaptive rather than rigidly planned. For years, Beijing had relied on SOEs to manage their own overseas ventures, assuming its deluge of financial support for the projects ensured that host governments would implement them smoothly.

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

Reversing California’s air quality and climate regulations would not address the immediate challenges and would compromise the health and welfare of California’s people. In light of these changes, some California regulations, adopted when the gasoline market was more competitive, are no longer working as designed.

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 30, 2025

Ontarios government is proposing a new law that would give Mayors in 169 small towns and villages Strong Mayor powers. The laws proposed amendments to Municipal Act regulations, which would take effect May 1, would wipe out many of the checks and balances that have helped to insulate small towns in Ontario from many forms of corruption.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

Stakeholders including utilities, regulators, governments, and communities are grappling with these questions in forums across the world, and UCS is currently closely involved in one such conversation playing out in Michigan. Will the need for new generation stall progress on clean energy goals ?

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

China—where EV sales could represent 45 percent of new auto sales this year—has had EV battery recycling regulations on the books for almost 20 years and has taken significant steps in the last several years to promote an EPR program for EV batteries, with the goal of supporting a strong, homegrown EV industry.

Waste

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. A year later, the government approved proposals for two hydroelectric plants worth $447 million on the grounds that they would increase the availability of electricity, create jobs and spur economic growth. of whom grow crops.

Government

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CNRL is a member of the Pathways Alliance – a tar sands lobby group that is trying to rebrand this polluting industry as a clean one while pushing back against government climate action behind closed doors. He spent years giving encouragement for the federal government to approve and build the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2025

For example, during droughts when California has enforced restrictions on delivery of surface water to its farmers — which the state regulates — the enormous agriculture enterprises that dominate the Central Valley have drilled deeper and pumped harder, depleting the aquifer — which the state regulates less precisely — even more.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plants will also explore the growing role of carbon credit markets in incentivizing the plugging of orphaned and abandoned wells.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

This includes governments at all levels implementing bans on advertising, as well as sports organizations taking steps to end the practice of sportswashing. Ads by Canada Action promoting natural gas , which is a fossil fuel, were called out by Canadas advertising regulator for being inaccurate and misleading.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) was caught hiding evidence of environmental degradation caused by toxic tailings spills, and misleading the public with false claims that it is closely monitoring the oil sands industry. Crude oil seen separated from sand for collection. Dr Kevin Timoneys report reveals that: 1.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2025

The drop, months in the making, prompted the aquifer’s governing body to impose its strictest level of water cuts. State regulators will be in charge of setting standards. The Edwards Aquifer, a foundational water supply for central Texas, plunged in May to one of its lowest levels on record. Lawmakers also approved a $2.5

Rainforest

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In 2023, the Ontario government established a stakeholder working group to explore expanding deposit return to include non-alcoholic beverage containers. This past summer, following vocal opposition from retailers, the government cancelled the working group and abandoned the policy.

2026

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The goal of the grant is to ensure that historically marginalized and underserved communities have access to information and resources about environmental protection, DEP permits, regulations, and grant opportunities. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Government-To-Government grant.

Environmental Protection

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Thats why I believe the Climate Accountability Act is a critical step for Wisconsin, especially given all the ways the federal government is trying to move us backward on addressing climate change. the federal government is trying to move us backwards on addressing climate change. Madison is our home.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

But to understand this incredibly complex system (like the web of regulations across regions, states, and utilities, or the ways that some systems can provide overlapping benefits), we’ve got to zoom out a bit first. What is “the grid”?

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Crucially, the funding would also go towards social science, governance, and systems research – an acknowledgment from the NASEM committee that public engagement on emerging technologies, and whether we can govern them effectively, must be an integral part of assessing whether they should move forward.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key items to be discussed include: typical sources of PFAS pollution; how PFAS impacts waterways; general status of PFAS regulations at the Federal and state level; current mitigation options and approximate cost of treatment; next steps as environmental professionals to support your clients impacts by PFAS mandates and regulations.

Regulations