Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ?

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When Congress passes a law, it normally delegates to the relevant federal agency (or agencies) the responsibility of writing regulations to implement that law. The Constitution balances power between three branches of government. Congress shares power with federal agencies. West Virginia v. EPA upends this arrangement.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 Though increasingly climate migrants to other countries are described as “ climate refugees ”, displacement by disasters and climate change is yet to be included in the definition of a refugee as established under international law. Their rights are only covered under human rights law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner denounced the Sackett decision as “a major blow to the landmark Clean Water Act and the federal government’s ability to protect our people from pollution and its negative health side effects.” For example, some state laws protect wetlands within their borders.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

Supreme Court will hear a case that may narrow the scope of a landmark environmental law. In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. 139 CONCEALED DEATHS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . billion gallons — to build 7,000 homes.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2006, a group of landowners filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Louisiana through the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) concerning the ownership of riverbanks in the Catahoula Basin. State of Louisiana through the Department of Natural Resources , 22-0625 (La. 1/1/23), So.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

The most recent Supreme Court case on that issue in the wetlands context is the justices’ infamous 2006 non-decision in Rapanos v. In a case involving the extent of the government’s authority to regulate wetlands under section 404 of the CWA, the Court was unable to reach a decision on the merits. United States.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

In 1977 President Jimmy Carter nominated Heine as the first Director of the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement after the passage of the first federal law to comprehensively regulate coal mining operations-- the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act-- that same year. Heine Associates, Inc.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . pounds in 2006. There’s no excuse for these blooms to be happening in Michigan.”.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

That why he secured historic funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, supercharging EPA’s Brownfields program to clean up contaminated properties in overburdened communities and bring them back into productive use.” Thanks to the historic $1.5

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

The “ LL&E II ” decision finds that Act 312 charges the court, not the jury, to determine the funding needed to remediate property to government standards. If (and only if) an express contractual provision allows greater remediation than government standards, a jury may consider and award such “excess remediation” damages.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

The state of Minnesota uses EPA’s ethylene oxide emissions standards, which haven’t been updated since 2006. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hawke has been named to Board’s Class of 2024, which will help govern the organization in its mission to preserve the historical significance of the SEC. The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has named Securities Enforcement & Litigation partner Daniel M. Hawke to its Board of Trustees.

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

A proposed approach to the problem of animal suffering not adequately addressed under existing law is to extend public health emergency and disaster preparedness and resilience frameworks to farm animal communities drawing on the model crisis standards of care. [2]. This includes farm animals and livestock. [7].

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Acoel

JUNE 6, 2023

715 (2006) case many years ago. Clearly there may be different treatment under state wetlands laws if state law definitions differ from those set forth in the CWA. United States, 547 U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 28, 2022

The 179D commercial buildings energy efficiency tax deduction has since 2006 enabled building owners to claim a $1.80 The 179D commercial buildings energy efficiency tax deduction has since 2006 enabled building owners to claim a $1.80 Significantly, since 2006 there has been a lifetime cap for this deduction of $1.80

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

The state of Maryland is leading the way in this movement, including several local jurisdictions adopting all electric building code laws. No other state has ascribed into law moving so quickly and so broadly with economy wide climate ambitions by decarbonization. The city of Takoma Park also adopted an all electric building code law.

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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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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Among these relevant “governance attributes” is Part 11 compliance, as applicable, including maintaining “access controls and audit trails to demonstrate the provenance of the registry data and to support traceability of the data. He is not admitted to the practice of law. ”[[N:Id.

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Moreover, while the Ontario government has attempted to defend Bill 23’s dismantling of flood and habitat protection, regional planning and green building standards by framing it as a measure to address the province’s housing shortage and lack of affordability, it is likely to have the opposite effect. SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 .

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

State Water Project Allocations In April 2023, the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) announced that the State Water Project, which is a key water source for California’s Central Valley, South Bay Area, and Southern California, would — for the first time since 2006 — meet 100% of all water allocations in 2023.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Since the 2006 U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Rapanos , EPA has struggled to develop a rule to further define which rivers, streams and lakes are regulated by the federal government under the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act does not further define the phrase “waters of the United States.”

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. State of Karnataka , the Karnataka High Court ordered the handover of a restaurant building under forest conservation law violations. EcoPerspectives Blog The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Among the most critiqued aspects of the standards may be mandates that: Non-state actors cannot buy cheap carbon credits that often lack integrity instead of immediately cutting their own emissions across their value chain, (but the UN left Egypt having failed to reach any agreement on rules governing carbon credits).

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, it isn’t clear that the proposed definition is, in practice, any narrower than the definition adopted during the Obama Administration which was subject to several legal challenges and became law in only half the States before being rescinded during the Trump Administration.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

The “ LL&E II ” decision finds that Act 312 charges the court, not the jury, to determine the funding needed to remediate property to government standards. If (and only if) an express contractual provision requires greater remediation than government standards, a jury may consider and award such “excess remediation” damages.

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