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Ready for the environmental news round up? Claire Petricca-Riding, Keith Davidson, Jill Crawford, Stéfano Giancarlo D'Ambrosio Nuñez,Elizabeth Mutter, Lea Ash, Anna Tranter and Cody Brookes bring the run down on the most important legal updates in the environmental world.  Here is the link to the full article with a summary below. 👇 https://lnkd.in/diTgTNd3 🌍 Climate Change Agreement Scheme extended for another 6 years 🌍 OEP allowed to intervene in river restoration case 🌍 Strengthening Environmental Accountability: Key Proposed Amendments to the Water (Special Measures) Bill 🌍 Internal review of DEFRA regulation and regulators announced 🌍 Criticism received on the New UK Product Standards Bill for excluding chemical regulations

South Africa has plenty of environmental laws but none that specifically oblige government officials to consider the risks and impacts of climate change when they approve new developments. In their research, environmental law experts Clive Vinti and Melanie Jean Murcott set out how judges are dealing with this gap in the law. What are the gaps in the law? The main gap is that no law specifically obliges companies establishing mines or building new developments like power stations to do a climate change

It sounds kinda reasonable to consult with the resources sector about environmental law reform until you remember that the mining industry consistently opposes every environmental law reform in Australia, and the coal and gas industries particularly and vociferously oppose every effective regulatory action on climate change and has done for decades. The mining industry opposed ratification of Kyoto, it opposed the CPRS and the Gillard carbon price, it opposed reforms to the Safeguard mechanism and it opposes inclusion of climate change impacts in our national environment law. In NSW it stopped the EPA imposing off-road diesel exhaust controls and load-based licencing on coal mines, it carved out special rules for itself on biodiversity offsetting, it has opposed the NSW EPA setting industry targets for greenhouse gas reduction, which was promised two years ago and is nowhere to be seen https://lnkd.in/gU6CUnAy

On July 1, 2024, the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) final rule implementing the revised National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Phase II regulations came into effect. This rule, marking the final phase of the Biden Administration’s effort to update the 2020 amendments to the NEPA regulations, reintroduces critical environmental policies and establishes new requirements for more robust and streamlined environmental analyses. Read our latest blog post, authored by Meg Holden and SPR Summer Associate Cameron Bonnell, to learn more about latest NEPA regulatory revisions. #EnvironmentalLaw #NEPA #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalJustice #CEQ #RegulatoryUpdates #SixtyYearsOfEnvironmentalLaw

In the third alert in our series on the new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, we focus on aspects of the Final Rule aimed at reducing the time and complexity associated with NEPA reviews. #NEPA

In the third alert in our series on the new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, we focus on aspects of the Final Rule aimed at reducing the time and complexity associated with NEPA reviews. #NEPA

The National Environmental Policy Act is a bedrock environmental law that can be leveraged in service of a just and equitable transition *FROM* fossil fuels *TO* renewable energy at the scale the climate crisis demands (emphasis important). The Council on Environmental Quality's new Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule is crafted in that light. But keep in mind: misplaced attacks on the National Environmental Policy Act are relentless and will continue. As these attacks are levied, keep something else in mind: they are far too often premised on anecdote, cherry picked data, and a profound misunderstanding of how the process works and what really causes delays in permitting. Fortunately, new empirical analysis is emerging to help us properly diagnose where the true challenges are located. I look forward, in particular, to reading a new forthcoming paper from Federico Holm of the Center for Progressive Reform, previewed in the post below.

Ready for the environmental news round up? Claire Petricca-Riding, Keith Davidson, Jill Crawford, Stéfano Giancarlo D'Ambrosio Nuñez, Elizabeth Mutter, Benjamin Holland, and Emma Barlow bring the run down of the most important legal updates in the environmental world. Here's the full article with a summary below. 👇 https://lnkd.in/e9TEDxyQ 🌍 EU fails to reach an agreement on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) 🌍 Updates to the offence response options from the Environment Agency 🌍 East Midlands International Airport to stand trial over alleged river pollution 🌍 Southern Water is fined £330,000 by the EA for negligent dumping of raw sewage  🌍 DEFRA proposes designation of 27 new bathing water sites Also, our Environmental Insight section addresses a recent decision of the Court of Appeal providing that the Secretary of State has no duty to consider the advice from the Climate Change Committee. #irwinmitchell #Environment #Sustainability #ESG

The White House Council on Environmental Quality completed its two-part effort to revise regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (#NEPA). Effective on July 1, 2024, the final rule is likely to result in expanded agency review with a new focus on #climatechange, #greenhousegas emissions, #environmentaljustice, and enforceable mitigation measures. Read below for our insights.

In looming Northern Territory environmental regression, Environment Centre NT has revealed that a leaked Lia Finocchiaro MLA CLP government briefing document details a secret CLP plan to pass laws that give the Chief Minister and an unelected bureaucrat (the Territory Coordinator) sweeping powers to fast-track and override environmental laws in the NT 🤯 😠 According to ECNT's press release, "These regressive laws could apply to some of the most controversial and environmentally harmful projects in Australia, including fracking in the Beetaloo Basin, the Singleton Station development, carbon capture and storage and land clearing and water licence approvals for expansion of the cotton industry in the NT." This'll be a test for the federal govt. Minister Tanya Plibersek, what do you say of these NT govt plans that mock environmental laws? #NaturePositive? ECNT press release: https://lnkd.in/gsExfJ8E