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comments This post originally appeared on Grist. Grist is a nonprofit news agency working toward a planet that doesn't burn and a future that doesn't suck. Sign up to receive Grist's top stories in your inbox. In April of 2019, thousands of protesters descended upon London. They blocked bridges, dragged a pink boat into one of the city's central squares, and, at one point, some stripped nearly naked in the House of Commons. Their goal? Get the United Kingdom to become the first country in the world to declare a "climate emergency." After 10 days of protests, Britain's Parliament did a surpr...

Yves here. This is the sort of post I very much like, since it made me smarter about a government procedure that Trump used actively, the 1996 Congressional Review Act. What surprised me was that Trump was the first President to use it aggressively, and that the Act is vague enough on key points as to be seen as legally grey. Yet Trump’s moves were never challenged in court! So much for Team Dem’s brand commitment to fighting. By Jan Ellen Spiegel. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections The obstacles the Trump administration has placed on environmental rulemaking and, by extensi...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Sen. Jeff Merkley is calling on President-elect Joe Biden to employ "bold executive action" to address climate change, urging unilateral changes to transportation and spending on alternative energy. "The climate crisis is an emergency, and President-elect Joe Biden needs to treat it that way," Merkley, D-Ore., said in a Washington Post op-ed Monday. "That means using every tool available to him, including declaring a national climate emergency and using emergency powers to take unilateral executive action." He a...

pore than is necessary. . . it is a constitutional shorthand. a justice of standard once the decision making in the background principles for policy situations. she notices that the distinction between constitutional law between categorical approaches versus balancing approaches is a version of the rules standard debates. like justice scalia, she she says the debate is about judicial discretion. mr. the people in this room and much of the legal community think this case would have recognized justice stevens as a justice of standards rather than a justice of rule. professor sullivan m...

criminal court with crimes against humanity and war crimes and his nation is on a state sponsor of terrorism list? >> i take a bit of an issue with your characterization of this. there are hefty sanctions in place against sudan. the president mentioned that in his statement today. this is a comprehensive policy that will not just deal with one aspect of the process, but will deal with both the humanitarian crisis we face in darfur as well as continuing the process for north-self peace agreement. . we are trying to seek a comprehensive solution to this problem that addresses the human...