Sep 9, 2024 | Environmental Law, North America, September 2024
Over the last two years, several court decisions weakened the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to tackle pollution and climate change [1]. It dates back to the 2022 West Virginia vs EPA case, when courts applied the major questions doctrine (MQD),...
Feb 16, 2023 | Environmental Law
What is Ecocide and why is it important? The ecocide concept emerged in the 1970s after the devastating effects of Agent Orange and other chemical herbicides on populations in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during the Vietnam War [1]. Since then, the definition...
Dec 11, 2022 | Environmental Law
The Carbon Cycle Carbon – an element with an atomic number of 6, is the fourth most abundant element in the universe and forms the foundation of life on Earth [1,2,3]. Carbon is stored in living beings, atmosphere, soils, oceans and crust. These components are...
Oct 27, 2022 | Environmental Law, Law & Justice
How is Environmental Protection defined in English Criminal Law? Why does this differ from the usual definitions of criminal responsibility? Within the ordinary scope of English Criminal Law, there are two primary forms of criminal responsibility: the physical act of...
Sep 24, 2022 | Environmental Law
In 2015, an unprecedented climate litigation case (Urgenda vs the Netherlands) was decided by a Dutch District Court. The State of the Netherlands was ordered to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by at least 25% as compared to the level of 1990 [1]. The...
Apr 23, 2022 | Environmental Law
Throughout history governments and international institutions passed laws aimed at protecting the environment on the basis of protecting human health. These date back to as early as 80 AD, when the Senate of Rome passed legislation that aimed at ensuring...
