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New law bans 200,000 high emission vehicles in California

Inhabitat - Innovation

This follows the final adoption of 2010 a rule banning vehicles that do not comply with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations. Estimated 200,000 vehicles including 70,000 big rigs have been banned from California roads starting this week.

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Judges to consider legal challenge to new planning laws

Envirotec Magazine

A legal bid to halt sweeping changes to planning laws in the UK will be heard in October. The SIs were introduced without an appropriate equality impact assessment, which is a failure to comply with a Public Sector Equality Duty under Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010.

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Environmental Masters Degrees from Vermont Law School

Green Market Oracle

Vermont Law School (VLS) offers three environmental masters degrees. A master's degree from VLS is different from other law degrees. Instead of studying theories about how policies work, VLS master's candidates learn the law and how to use it to effect change. MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY (MELP) Climate change.

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Bats Benefit the Environment

The Environmental Blog

The British government began passing laws to protect bats back in 1980s, starting with the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981. British bat species are also protected by European legislation like the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010. These laws protect bats and their roosts. Pest Control.

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Complaint launched after government misses legal deadline on environmental protections

Envirotec Magazine

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. As it stands, the government is going ahead with its Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which aims to remove hundreds of EU-derived environmental laws by the end of 2023. million hectares.

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Official status of River Wye downgraded due to worsened condition

Envirotec Magazine

When it was last assessed in 2010 only 1 of the 7 English units was ‘favourable’ and the remainder were ‘unfavourable recovering’, which means that actions underway could be expected to improve the condition over time. The new assessment covers the parts of the Wye that flow through England.

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Li-ion battery pack prices rise for first time, to $151/kWh

Charged

Lithium-ion battery prices have been dropping for so long that industry players and pundits tend to factor ever-cheaper cells into their predictions, and many have made (dubious) comparisons to Moore’s Law, one of the core tenets of the computer industry. In 2022, observed pack prices increased for the first time to an average of $151/kWh.

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