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Environmental Law Centre
OCTOBER 29, 2021
The right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is recognized as a universal human right On October 5th, the UN’s Human Rights.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Richard School of Law.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Today, our air and water are significantly cleaner than they were 50 years ago thanks to the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and other environmental safeguards Congress passed back then. The main cause? Industrial pollution. But those laws primarily focused on the industrial sector, leaving agriculture largely alone.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 30, 2023
On October 30 the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held its first-ever hearing on the health and environmental impacts of the shale gas industry and legislation increasing safety zone setbacks around gas infrastructure. At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that young people and other plaintiffs asserting a claim against the federal government for infringement of a Fifth Amendment due process right to a “ climate system capable of sustaining human life” did not have Article III standing. and non-U.S.
ESA
JULY 1, 2022
Supreme Court will hear Clean Water Act case in October 2023. At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” International.
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