Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Germany has dragged its feet on EVs because of its powerful car industry.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. The earliest mentions of these terms in the law review literature came in the late 1970s, and only one of the pre-1985 discussions took a comprehensive look at the problem. Both were in 1978 articles about nuclear energy.
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 26, 2022
Forty-three years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. Yet in spite of the 2018 explosion of a brand new Revolution Pipeline in Beaver County, we’ve done little to change our laws or protect people. Read more here.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign into law tomorrow. It adds Michigan to the growing list of states, including Illinois and Minnesota , that have adopted standards to increase renewable energy on the grid and move toward 100-percent decarbonization of the power sector. The package represents progress on a number of fronts.
Physics World
MARCH 18, 2022
The letter’s withdrawal was a chilling reminder of what Russia’s political climate has become. But with a new law threatening 15-year prison sentences for anyone discrediting the Russian military, the letter’s organizers swiftly deleted it , fearing the safety of its signatories.
Environment, Law, and History
JANUARY 12, 2022
A recent post by Dan Farber at Legal Planet discussed the issue of when climate awareness began to enter American law. were in 1978 articles about nuclear energy. The most notable was by an administrative law professor at Harvard, one Stephen Breyer. Third, there was so much else going on in environmental law.
A Greener Life
JULY 30, 2021
The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .
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