The #Trump admin proposed a rule change that would prohibit only actions that directly hurt or kill actual animals, not the #habitats they rely on. If finalized, the change could make it easier to #log, #mine & build on #lands that #EndangeredSpecies need to thrive.
"#Habitat loss is the biggest single cause of #extinction & endangered species—it makes sense to address it,"Ctr for Biological Diversity govt affairs dir Brett Hartl said. He called efforts to deny that cause "callous & reckless."
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Tony Elumelu, a renowned Nigerian billionaire and business leader, has been appointed to the International Monetary Funds (IMF) Advisory Council on Entrepreneurship and Growth. | Business Insider Africa
In recent years, U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undercut federal agencies’ ability to curb pollution and fight climate change.
Several cases decided in 2024 continued this trend,
systematically shifting the power to make and enforce environmental regulations over to the judicial branch.
Though it will likely take years to know the full consequences of this year’s rulings,
legal experts say they have profound implications as to how federal agencies can respond to the threat of climate change.
Congress passed the majority of the laws that protect our lands and waters decades ago,
and with an increasingly polarized political environment, legislators have passed few new environmental regulations since.
In the past few decades, Congress has in effect tasked federal agencies with adapting existing laws to our new climate reality,
said Chris Winter, executive director of the University of Colorado Law School’s Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.
But with an increasingly conservative Supreme Court in place, these laws have come under increased scrutiny,
including in several of the court’s 2024 landmark decisions.
Perhaps the most significant was #Loper #Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,
which overturned the 1984 #Chevron #doctrine, a powerful legal tool that gave federal agencies the ability to interpret and enforce ambiguous or unclear laws.
For decades, the courts have largely deferred to agency experts in crafting and enforcing regulations,
since those agencies typically have greater expertise in their subject areas than judges do.
By eliminating Chevron, the court transferred the authority to clarify the meaning of a written law to the judicial system.
Loper Bright has already raised “a lot of uncertainty” about whether or how agencies should create and enforce environmental regulations,
according to Winter.
The last few years have signaled a structural change in the balance of power between courts and federal agencies, he said,
with courts now working hard to rein in federal regulators.
Meanwhile, industry groups eager to roll back regulations have filed lawsuits in conservative states with business-friendly judges.
In federal courts in Wyoming, Utah and Montana, for example,
groups representing farmers, ranchers and the fossil fuel industry have cited Loper Bright as a precedent for suing the Biden administration to overturn the 2024 #Public #Lands #Rule,
which designated conservation as a legitimate “use” for public lands in line with extractive uses like mining, grazing and logging.
As of Sept. 6, Loper Bright has been cited in 110 federal cases, according to the advocacy group Democracy Forward.
“These days, it doesn’t feel like you can really think deeply about the law. It is simply a political battle,”
said Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center,
a nonprofit public-interest environmental law firm.
Altogether, the body of law emerging from the court has “prioritized politically oriented property rights and economic rights,”
Schlenker-Goodrich said.
“In other words, corporate rights and corporate power.”
"The race for tech expansion goes hand in hand with the project of colonization, in fact they mutually rely on one another for the shared project of domination over land and over human and non-human beings. War is one of the most profitable endeavors a State can engage in, and the age of AI-powered drone weaponry and computerized combat is already here. Tech companies are incentivized to support the war industry because of the multi-billion-dollar contracts they provide, and the State is incentivized to support the tech industry in order to ensure access to the most cutting-edge killing technology."—Act for Freedom Now! >
https://actforfree.noblogs.org/2024/11/04/against-the-silicon-forest-usa/
#Tech #facts #SiliconForest #microchips #colonization #semiconductors #Intel #energy #waste #water #ecology #Oregon #lands #biodiversity #AI #war #weapons #industry #surveillance #expansion #lithium #cobalt #nickle #hydropower #destruction #technocracy #ClimateChange #ecosystems #capitalism #devastation #expansion #GoLowtech #USA #China #LatinAmerica #Congo #RDC #Tektronix #IBM #HewlettPackar #GreenWashing #TechIndustry #electricity #grid #InformationOverload #renewables #silicon
"Why All of Europe’s 41 Territorial Disputes Exist Today"—RealLifeLore >
https://youtu.be/7f6-rHBMTF4?feature=shared
#documentary #video #Europe #lands #TerritorialDisputes #EU #disputes #borders
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