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We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Aspects of many of these events reflect broader trends in how extreme events are changing as our climate warms. And the risks from extreme events can cascade as they affect critical infrastructure. And, of course, the fires. They grow ever larger and affect everything from majestic sequoias to tiny babies.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

Pursuant to that authority, EPA created the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which requires covered entities in 41 different source categories, including fuel and industrial gas suppliers, iron and steel manufacturers, and other large industrial facilities to report annually on their GHG emissions.

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Research Roundup: FDA Uses Fall and Winter 2021 to Release Significant New Guidance Governing Hot-Button Life Sciences Research Topics

Arnold Porter

FDA requires that relevant adverse events be submitted in accordance with postmarketing safety reporting regulations under 21 CFR 314.80 , 314.81 , and 600.80. 2012) (2012 Guidance) and Adverse Event Reporting to IRBs—Improving Human Subject Protection (Jan. 2021) (Investigator Responsibilities Draft Guidance).

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CEQA Remedies Go Both Ways:  Fourth District Reverses Judgment Upholding San Diego County Board’s Decision Granting Project Opponents’ Administrative Appeal, Holds Board Erred In Finding CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 Statutory Exemption Inapplicable And Ordering EIR Prepared for Exempt Industrial Project

CEQA Developments

City of Turlock (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th The Board was no doubt counting votes at the next election, and, in any event, was not undertaking the factual and legal analysis required of a lead agency by CEQA. 4th 273, 294 [analyzing whether City zoning ordinance was eligible for exemption].)

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Hurricane Ida supercharges climate change in the US

A Greener Life

On its route to landfall in the US, it passed by western Cuba where it intensified into a hurricane, and picked up speed and further intensified into a Category 4 hurricane passing the Gulf of Mexico , knocking down palm trees and destroying many homes in Cuba, even though its passage across the country was brief.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature.

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EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Publish Joint Guidance

The Energy Law Blog

2208 (2006). In 2006, the Supreme Court decided two consolidated cases involving the Corps’ authority to require dredge and fill permits under CWA § 404 for discharge into wetlands having only indirect connections to navigable waters. 2208 (2006). United States , 126 S. United States , and Carabell v. United States , 126 S.

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