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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

But regulations for sustainable finance still lag behind international best practices. The federal government launched an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance in 2018 and recently appointed a Sustainable Finance Action Council. We need ambitious regulation for four reasons: . Why is this? .

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 8, 2024

Instead of informing downstream communities, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) helped Imperial cover up the spill for over nine months. Shockingly, this was the first time local Indigenous nations, the federal government and the public were informed about the leak! Where rules do exist, they aren’t enforced.

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. The Alberta Energy Regulator has shown us over and over that it is willfully neglecting to keep us safe from toxic waste and pollution. One of the incidents spilled 5.3 million litres of industrial waste.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Environmental Defence, Équiterre, Ecology Action Centre and the David Suzuki Foundation are responding with a joint statement welcoming the regulations as a strong step towards reducing emissions and the cost of living for Canadians. . We need the government to commit to finalizing this reg in the next six months.

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Law and Environment

JULY 12, 2021

My concern here is the extent to which we in the United States are making policy intended to address climate change – which is not even a national problem, but a global problem – at a broad range of levels of government. Moreover, all of these moves were based on the exercise of traditional police powers by local governments.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The proposed changes demonstrate the Government of Ontario’s persistence in prioritizing harmful projects over protection of even the very rarest of species and ecosystems. The MECP’s proposal makes clear that the Ontario government cares little about the unpayable costs of biodiversity loss.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. Voters in parts of Cochise and Graham counties will decide whether to join the state’s more populated districts and regulate groundwater extraction. Local Regulation. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In August, the California Air Resources Board finalized regulations that will phase out the sale of new internal combustion engine automobiles by 2035. The regulations (known as Advanced Clean Cars II) deliver on a commitment Governor Newsom made in a 2020 executive order and build on decades of emissions reduction programs from CARB.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2021

CARLA relied on the state’s Housing Accountability Act (HAA), which limits the ability of a local government to reject housing projects that are consistent with the local government’s zoning rules. Instead, I want to discuss the question of whether the state can even constrain local government regulation of land-use in California.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2021

Supreme Court today held unconstitutional a longstanding California regulation allowing labor unions intermittent access to agricultural workplaces for labor organizing purposes. Briefly, Cedar Point Nursery involves an agricultural industry challenge to a regulation enacted by California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 20, 2024

“Industry hybrid regulation: Exploring a model for business-driven circular economy.” link] Abstract Government is often seen as the arbiter for environmental protection. Alternatively, firms can volunteer to proactively take collective action toward sustainability, called industry self-regulation. Chapardar, H.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Continual reform is necessary so that emissions trading systems do not become merely symbolic regulation, or even worse create harmful negative consequences for climate policy – by for example subsidizing fossil fuel use or preempting useful complementary regulations. Implications for China. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2024

The proposed Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) by the federal government are intended to make sure we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from fossil fuel generated electricity starting in 2035. The regulations as they are now will not deliver on the targets. The effects of climate change will only get worse.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. State regulations have strict inducements, so the degree to which EPA aligns with such parameters is important. Limits on mal-maintenance/tampering.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Recent polling demonstrates that the public wants action on sustainable finance — financial activities that take into account social, environmental, and governance factors. The desire for mandatory regulations is driven by skepticism that financial institutions would respect voluntary regulations.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 11, 2024

PFAS, Planes, and Problems: PFAS Regulation in the Aerospace and Aviation Industries. Oklahoma Law Review, 76(2), 441.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 20, 2023

The David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence, Wilderness Committee, Ecojustice, Friends of the Earth and Prevent Cancer Now say the changes announced today are a positive first step towards more robust regulation of pesticides. It’s long past time to end the overuse of under-regulated pest products.”

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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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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yesterday, the Biden announced a new Sustainable Products and Services procurement rule, which requires federal government buyers to prioritize sustainable products and services, and expands the categories of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ecolabel standards for federal purchasing to a series of new sectors.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Some 15 hours later, the Government of Ontario threatened to pass legislation that would reverse that decision. The OEB is Ontario’s independent regulator of the electricity and natural gas sectors. The post The Ontario Government Should Not Intervene in the OEB Enbridge Rate Decision appeared first on Environmental Defence.

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National Law Center

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On Monday, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (“AMS”) released a proposed rule governing competition in the livestock and poultry industries. The post Proposed Regulation: Competition and Market Integrity appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities Under the Guidelines, the top 180 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the top 50 companies on its Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange must publish SDRs annually, within four months of the end of their fiscal year.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

As state governments begin to grapple with the serious impacts of climate change on a range of local industries and economic actors, it will be vital for leaders and investors to have access to comparable, high-quality risk disclosure. Download as PDF.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As the health consequences of vaping emerge from the fog, governments across the world are regulating e-cigarettes in different ways – and it won’t take long to see which works best

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have. Written comments are due on August 14, 2023.

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Nanotech

JANUARY 16, 2024

The comparative summary provides the following information: The post Law Library of Congress Publishes Report on Selected Issues in Biotechnology Regulation appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These regulations will position Canada as a leader on reducing methane pollution, but Canada should be striving for virtual elimination of methane emissions. We urge the government to finalize and bring these regulations into force as quickly as possible. Methane reductions are also relatively simple to achieve and low in cost.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As described in Latham’s previous reporting on the rulemaking [iii] and adoption [iv] of Rule 2305, the regulation applies to warehouses in the South Coast Air Basin [v] of 100,000 square feet or more and aims to reduce regional nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and local diesel particulate matter emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 12, 2022

The government finally posted draft regulations to ban six single-use plastics over the holidays. As written, the regulations wouldn’t rid Canada of the harmful products until sometime in 2024 at the earliest, an absurd timeline that undermines the government’s own promises to reign in plastic pollution.

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SPR Law

JULY 24, 2023

Almost five years after publishing the first substantial revisions to its solid waste management regulations, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) published a new set of final revisions to the regulations, which became effective on July 22, 2023.

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