Banner for the CT Environmental Rights Amendment on the steps of the Old State House Credit: Jan Ellen Sipegel / CT Mirror The Supreme Court has been undermining environmental regulations at the ...

At the conclusion of the recitation of the Angelus yesterday at Castelgandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI called on the international community to greater cooperation in promoting “the common good, the ...

The Trump administration proposed earlier this month a reform of the implementing regulations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a law enacted 50 years ago. The implementing regulations ...

Climate change and environmental crises such as deforestation are critical problems in refugee situations. UNHCR estimates that 20-25 million trees are cut down in and around refugee settlements each ...

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...

The government has offered concessions on native forest logging as it steps up its effort to win support for an overhaul of environment law. Labor needs the support of either the Coalition or the ...

Despite the regional Escazú Agreement coming into force in 2021 to ensure the protection of the environment and its defenders in Latin America, it is not being enacted and has still not been ratified ...

There is a common concern across most of the surveyed publics around environmental protection. A median of seven-in-ten report that climate change is having at least some effect in the area where they ...

THE right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment – in a world besieged by environmental and climate crises, this fundamental right should be non-negotiable. But this, apparently, has ...

Claim: No other country has a similar constitutional provision, which will have a negative effect on customs and traditions. Verdict: Several countries make the right to a clean environment a legally ...