Washington Nature

JUNE 1, 2023

The Stillaguamish restoration sites are part of a $24 million project package funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that will move 23 projects forward across the whole of the Whidbey Basin, which includes the Skagit, Stillaguamish, and Snohomish Rivers.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Their main arguments include two disturbing tactics that come straight out of the disinformation playbook : casting doubt on the science, and pressing the EPA to violate a law passed by Congress. This part of the law, requiring the government to consider only science-based evidence that can protect public health, has been upheld for years.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

This goes all the back to the California Energy Crisis of 2000-2001. Newsom’s oil law and these separate calls for more transparency around natural gas prices? I’d argue that FERC could also use its authority under the Natural Gas Index to create a public index if it finds that there are problems with the current set-up.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Mandara Spa (Hawaii), LLC , the appellant seaman brought claims under the Jones Act and general maritime law for failure to pay maintenance and cure related to certain bodily injuries. Atkinson , 369 U.S. 527 (1962) requires courts hearing maintenance and cure cases to construe disputed medical evidence in the seaman’s favor. In Witbart v.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

In 2001, Maryland was one of the first states to incentivize green building, to reduce GHG emissions, with an income tax credit. Live webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?” The Maryland Department of Labor is expected to publish the Notice of Proposed Action on January 13, 2023. The backstory is important.

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Law of the Lands

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

According to Section 26 of the Municipal Act, 2001 , all highways that existed on December 31, 2002 continue to be recognized as public highways unless they have been closed. After January 1, 2003, however, all highways must be established by by-law of a municipality. Some roads that were established by by-law have disappeared.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

Wells Environmental Clinic at UCLA School of Law is representing Los Angeles Waterkeeper on matters related to the subject of this post. The Superior Court sided with the boards and upheld the 2012 permit, and NRDC and LAW appealed. Los Angeles River (Credit: Thomas Hawk on Flickr). Disclosure: The Frank G.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To comply with the law, mining companies worked to revegetate and reforest the land, but many merely met the letter of the law, meeting the requirements for bond release by planting less than desirable trees and heavy grasses rather than properly revegetating and reforesting the sites.

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Energy & the Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

Lessees Gramwich et al sued in 2001 alleging that lessor Meng engaged in “actions that were bizarre and numerous” that interfered with operations under a 1996 oil and gas lease on 2,000 acres in Throckmorton County. The facts are dense and the savings clause at issue is sui generis, so I won’t go into lots of detail.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

One formulation that has been suggested is, “What are the obligations under international law of a State for ensuring that activities under its jurisdiction or control that emit greenhouse gases do not cause, or substantially contribute to, serious damage to another State or State?” Once the opinion is issued, what impact would it have?

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule. However, a recent study by the Environmental Law Institute demonstrates that most States have not adopted any regulations to protect waterways beyond the protections afforded under the CWA.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule. However, a recent study by the Environmental Law Institute demonstrates that most States have not adopted any regulations to protect waterways beyond the protections afforded under the CWA.

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Ohio Environmental Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

Many heralded the Clean Ohio brownfield grant program, which operated from approximately 2001 to 2012, as the “golden age” of brownfield cleanup and redevelopment in Ohio. Of the $341 million in grant funds provided $19.2 million were assessment grant dollars (6% of the total allocation) and $321.9

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NAEP Leadership Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Beyond the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), lobbyists in Washington DC were creating considerable pressure to enact many other environmental protection laws. This nation’s environmental movement that began in the early 1960’s had gained considerable momentum by the end of that decade.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2001 et seq. , Those allegations form the basis of alleged violations of Chapter 4 of the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act: the Louisiana Water Control Law, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2071 et seq.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even with its Director, Kenneth Blanco, departing this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been active in taking steps to implement the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act), which was enacted into law on January 1, 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA).

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Court’s majority acknowledged such actions would contravene FERC’s “sole jurisdiction” over licensing process disputes and be preempted under longstanding federal law. (18 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).). North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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Physics World

MAY 27, 2021

In 2001 in New York, for instance, 6-year-old Michael Colombini died after being hit in the head with an oxygen tank. The magnetic field produced by the gradient coils in the MR scanner can induce an electric field in the patient’s body due to Faraday’s Law of Induction. (Courtesy: of Frank Shellock, MRISafety.com).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2001, a group of Mecosta County residents sued to stop Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, from depleting a spring to fill its Ice Mountain water bottles. In law and practice Michigan succeeded in sharing the burden of collecting data needed to make groundwater withdrawal decisions between the state and high-capacity well developers.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2001, East Kalimantan had 126,000 sq km of primary forest. In addition, the mining law, which was revised in 2020, ensured that seven giant coal miners with coal contracts of work (known as PKP2B) due to expire between 2020 and 2025 will have an opportunity to extend their contracts. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Department of Justice and as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Law & Policy in the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives during the George W. Prior to his public service he practiced labor and employment law at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Prior to that position, Mr. Ho served as a law clerk to U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2001 et seq. , Those allegations form the basis of alleged violations of Chapter 4 of the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act: the Louisiana Water Control Law, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2071 et seq.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. with average emissions eight times greater than the average rate of the other refineries on the Top 10 list.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

This year promises to be the ‘Year of Climate’ in international courts and tribunals with opinions slated to be coming down from the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2018

It happened in a remote area, a frontier-area with many socio-environmental conflicts where law enforcement is challenging. Shortly after this judgment, Ecuador enacted a new law granting full legal standing to Nature. The same law provides for Nature’s representation at trial by any person or the. SUI GENERIS. Ombudsman. .

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Environmental Crimes

AUGUST 13, 2018

From my perspective, this indictment continues a trend that began shortly after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks: the criminalization of industrial accidents. Interestingly, the federal agency responsible for the enforcement of the environmental laws has not criminally investigated Arkema to the point of indictment.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. with average emissions eight times greater than the average rate of the other refineries on the Top 10 list.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The European Green Deal and the proposed European Climate Law reinforce the EU’s goal to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050, meaning that the EU will emit no more greenhouse gases than it removes from the air (for example through reforestation). However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. Since COP 7 in 2001, gender. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Amy Pickering. Women disproportionately experience the. harmful effects. of climate change.

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Acoel

JUNE 15, 2021

Because Sparrows Point was the biggest employer in the state, EPA and the Maryland Department of the Environment did little to enforce compliance with environmental laws despite major violations throughout the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. In 2001 Bethlehem Steel declared bankruptcy.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2018

Hugo Echeverria works in environmental law since 2001, with emphasis on international law and biodiversity conservation as well as the environmental rule of law; areas in which he practices as an attorney and a consultant. He also lectures environmental law in Ecuador, at undergraduate and graduate levels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

trillion [federal] infrastructure bill signed into law on November 15, 2021, help is on the way. On September 11, 2001, hijacked airliner Flight 93 crashed nearby resulting in the deaths of 40 passengers and crew. For years AMD treatment facilities have had to work to the very limited funding that was available. But thanks to the $1.2

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Since at least 2001, the Supreme Court has made it pretty clear that it finds the Clean Water Act’s Section 404 “dredge and fill” permit program distasteful. See , e.g. , Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v Edwards, — F. Sixteen years of fairly ugly legal history and propaganda ensued. 3d —, 2022 WL 952072, at *2 (D.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The drought conditions in 2001 led to severe restrictions on water released for the Klamath Project, which the media portrayed as pitting “famers against fish.” Dave Jennings is a 2L at Vermont Law School interested in environmental law and policy, particularly wildlife conservation and ecosystem management. . About the Author.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

DWR’s efforts in this regard took place from 2001 to 2006, involving “five federal agencies, five state agencies, seven local government entities, five Native American tribes, four local water agencies, and 13 nongovernmental organizations,” with three years of hearings and two years of negotiations. 791a et seq.).

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