Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

News - Best Lawyers has named Arnold & Porter as a "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Litigation - Environmental" category. The firm also received 43 national rankings and 102 metropolitan rankings (Chicago, DC, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) in the "Best Law Firms" report. Biotechnology Law.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 on February 4, 2021 in an effort to, in her words, comprehensively "overhaul[] and moderniz[e]" US antitrust laws. 4, 2011).]]. Major Provisions of the Legislation. The legislation[[N:§ 4(b).]] 2018 F.T.C.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. by Annie Snider, Alex Gullien, Kelsey Tamborrino and Anthony Adragna, PoliticoPro, 6/11/2021.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th First, that EIR was superseded and replaced by the Regents’ subsequently certified 2021 EIR. 2021-2022) (SB 118) rendered the relief granted by the trial court unenforceable. Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. The Regents of the University of California, et al. 2023) Cal.App.5th.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Federal scientists provide the rigorous, independent evidence and data that are essential ingredients for policy, laws, and practices that truly serve the public, not special interests. percent in 2011 to 0.6 percent in 2021. percent in 2011 to 0.6 percent in 2021. percent of the US population.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Three More PFAS Added to Toxics Release Inventory List for 2021 Reporting Year; EPA Announced Plans for More Additions to List. EPA’s Spring 2021 Regulatory Agenda Contained Multiple TSCA Rulemaking Actions. 6, 2021).]] July 23, 2021).]] Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS. Regan, No. Regan, No.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2021 Biden signs infrastructure bill with approximately $100 billion for electrical grid buildout, public transportation, and clean energy. Obama stimulus bill provides $90 billion for renewables.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2021, the Biden administration and Congress responded to the deficit. The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

PFAS Accountability Act of 2021 Would Create Federal Cause of Action for PFAS Exposure. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS. 22, 2021).]] 23, 2021).]] 22, 2021); Int’l Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agric. 10, 2021); see also Envtl. N:New York v.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

Those standards, which my UCLA Law colleague-turned Chief Counsel of NHTSA, Ann Carlson, wrote about in 2011 , were designed to have cars hitting an average fuel economy of 54.5 mpg by 2025.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. May 17, 2021). May 24, 2021); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) May 24, 2021); Shell Oil Products Co., May 24, 2021). June 2, 2021). and non-U.S.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

That decision—along with a 2011 decision of the Ninth Circuit vacating the only two National Corridor designations—brought FERC’s transmission permitting activity to a halt. The post FERC Proposes to Implement Expanded Transmission Siting Authority first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. June 15, 2021). June 16, 2021). On June 14, 2021, the U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Food Safety Modernization Act, an umbrella law, was signed by President Obama in 2011. Submit them at www.regulations.gov using docket number FDA-2021-N-0471. There was also seepage of groundwater into the canal. The produce safety rules, which apply to irrigation water contaminants, were finalized in 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

On June 17, the Public Utility Commission posted detailed information about the distribution of 2021 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee revenue from unconventional shale natural gas producers – totaling $234,437,575 – on the PUC’s Act 13 website. Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) , in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable energy projects. Docket Nos.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. How he did it: From 2019 through 2021 in managing different oil and gas mineral rights investment funds he allegedly inflated the value of the rights to be sold to investment funds and used their money to obtain a loan of $6.5

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

The Advisory Opinion handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 21 May 2024 is truly remarkable. Under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ), States must now take all necessary measures to prevent, reduce and control GHG emissions. under Arts.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 12, DEP, DCNR and many guests dedicated the Law Library Conference Room in the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to Franklin Kury, the legislative author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment to the state Constitution. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2021 and 2022, if you wanted to buy an EV you might be on a waiting list for many months or even years which in turn drove aggressive projections by automakers for future years sales. The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5 Automakers pushed back, concerned the rules were too stringent.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 16, 2021

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. Resources Code, § 21168.6.7) Please contact Arthur F.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The 2021-2022 Legislative Session was light on CEQA amendments, and once again did not produce any significant reform. SB 6 was the companion bill to AB 2011, but it does not create a ministerial approval process. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

On extreme weather days, the Texas utilities declare a CPP day and the subset of consumers now face much higher power prices and as we know from the law of demand they consume less power. Read Frank Wolak's 2011 paper. This theme of market making fueling adaptation is a major theme of my 2021 Yale Press book Adapting to Climate Change.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. Researchers were able to date the radium found in this study to a time after 2011, making it clear that the limited restrictions on wastewater disposal are not enough to protect Pennsylvanians’ health.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil law cases. Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Koch’s Web of Influence by John Farrell (Center for Public Integrity, April 2011). The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right (Center for American Progress Action Fund, April 2011). The fine was $30 million. Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

On October 21, 2021, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved a rule that creates requirements for power companies to better prepare for winter weather. 3, effective June 8, 2021, is a multi-pronged law that attempts to make the Texas energy system more resilient to the effects of extreme winter weather events.

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

On October 21, 2021, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved a rule that creates requirements for power companies to better prepare for winter weather. 3, effective June 8, 2021, is a multi-pronged law that attempts to make the Texas energy system more resilient to the effects of extreme winter weather events.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In its first 100 days in office, the Biden-Harris Administration has already proposed or passed sweeping reforms in federal laws and policies, with many more campaign promises still in process. Dodd, Arnold & Porter, former US Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1981-2011). Ambassador Kenneth I.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In response to new building energy performance standards and other laws requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, tenants are beginning to monetize their GHG emission data, including their utility data. Billion in 2021 and is projected to have double digit growth in those data sales each year for the next 10 years.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Steve Chester. On September 30, 2021, U.S. EPA’s current policy on tribal consultation is set forth in the May 4, 2011 “EPA Policy on Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribes.” Constitution, treaties, laws and court opinions.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

Guest Post by Katie Nigro , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. The current barriers to implementing assisted migration include the established laws and attitudes about forest restoration in land management agencies and the logistical constraints of time, money, and personnel needed to plant the trees (Dumroese et al.,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

After fiscal year (FY) 2020, when the Office of the Whistleblower (OWB) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) awarded a record-breaking $175 million to 39 individuals, FY 2021 has proven to be even more active. The OWB’s activity in the first half of 2021 continues the uptick in awards seen in 2020.

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