Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Five Justices (four dissenters plus Justiice Kennedy) support the “significant nexus” test, which the lower courts generally view as binding law. Obama Administration issues Waters of the United States (WOTUS rule), which ignites a major political dispute and becomes mired in litigation. In Rapanos v. In Sackett v. Download as PDF
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Supreme Court will hear arguments in an animal welfare case from California that could have profound, negative impacts on a host of the Golden State’s environmental laws and policies. Specifically, the trade groups claim that the California law violates so-called “dormant” Commerce Clause principles. Constitution.
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Legal Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
But that changed dramatically in 2006, after the California Air Resources Board adopted the world’s first regulatory limits on GHG emissions from motor vehicles. In 2006, President George W. A bit of CAA history is needed to understand this litigation and its profound legal and policy implications. EPA decision.)
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2006 AB 32. 2006 AB 32. That would be even more obvious if the timeline included the host of less notable, but still significant, laws passed during the same time period. 2002 SB1078.
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. Congress shares power with federal agencies. The doctrine is named after the case in which it was first articulated.) West Virginia v. EPA upends this arrangement.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S. They are often left to deal with climate effects on the ground, from wildfires to sea level rise to drought, and they can provide a political bulwark of sorts even as U.S.
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