CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

County of Inyo (2021) __ Cal.App.5th__. As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. The proposed amendments relied on the 1999 MNDs and 2012 addendum, with no additional CEQA review or mitigation deemed necessary by the County.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 17, 2021. In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

Once again, we’re teaming up with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and headed to court this week to protect this important environmental law from the Government of Alberta’s efforts to strike it down. That’s why we’re in court defending this law. They even compared the law to the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. Indeed, the OVEC coal plants have been selling electricity for less than it costs to generate for a decade, operating at a loss since 2012. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov.

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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. in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. Wildfire suppression expenditures in California from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2022, in million U.S. Source: Statista 2023.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

FDA’s decision to issue this investigator-specific guidance follows publication of a draft sponsor-specific safety reporting guidance in June 2021, and is part of an effort to ultimately replace the older guidance documents with role-specific guidance. 2021) (RWE Draft Guidance). 2021) (Registry Draft Guidance).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries around the world have increasingly adopted climate change laws over the last two decades. This is partially attributable to the dynamism in international climate negotiations but also a growing appreciation of the crucial role that national laws and policy measures play. Overview of the Climate Change Act 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2024

He served four terms on the WeConservePA board of directors (2007-2013 and 2015-2021) and continues to serve on the WeConservePA policy council. In 1977, he graduated from Capital University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude. This research began his keen interest in real estate law. In 2012, WPC v.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2023

Pollution of a water well like this is presumed by law to be caused by a natural gas well located within 2,500 feet of the well. The DEP inspector found significant natural gas readings around the well head of the water well which has been disconnected from the house and is no longer in use. Both violations are still outstanding.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition said Section 3225(a)(1) Act 13 of 2012 set bond amounts for oil and gas wells, but did not differentiate between conventional and unconventional wells. The operative language links these Fiscal Code provisions to Section 3225(a)(1) of Act 13 of 2012 and says-- “Section 1606-E. Conventional oil and gas well bonding. (a)

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

Guest Post by Katie Nigro , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2012; Ste-Marie et al., 2012), as was done with the Florida torreya ( Torreya taxifolia ) in a citizen-initiated conservation effort that garnered quite a bit of controversy in 2008. 2012; Ste-Marie et al., 2019; Pedlar et al.,

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — December 7, 2021. And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I If climate change forecasts prove accurate, the summer of 2021 was a dress rehearsal for the future. World of scarcity’.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2023

Vending machine selling water on Maui, 2021. The Supreme Court will decide which wetland ecosystems are included in the Clean Water Act, the law that regulates the dumping of pollutants into American waters.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

In a published opinion filed June 30, 2021, the First District Court of Appeal applied well-established CEQA statute of limitations rules, and a “persuasive dictum” from one of its prior decisions addressing the requirements for valid tolling agreements, to affirm a judgment dismissing a CEQA claim as time-barred. 3, 2021) Cal.App.5th.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016. The PUC adopted and incorporated the ALJ decision in May 2021. Transource then filed a complaint in the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

State laws prevent some tribes from taking water from the river if they can’t prove how much is theirs. At an October law conference at the University of Colorado Boulder, Cloud shared her family’s experience of filling up water tanks at her uncle’s home with his garden hose. Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News).

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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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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021. These design features include: Doubling the annual cap decline from 2 to 4 percent from 2021 to 2030.

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

Photographs by Ryan Christopher Jones – May 25, 2021. The foundations of Mexico City churches have famously tilted, and one 2012 study found that Venice was subsiding at a rate of.07 That happened during California’s last prolonged drought, from 2012 to 2016, when Central Valley land sank at high rates. By Lois Henry.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  Who's to blame?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  Who's to blame?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

DEP reported in its Right To Know response just 76 conventional companies were assessed penalties for their violations over the last six years by the agency totalling $2,524,973-- between 2016 and 2021. In 2021, conventional oil and gas operators reported road dumping over 580,000 gallons of drilling wastewater. Read more here.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

In May 2021, I am quite aware that I am now an "old guy" in the academic economics profession. This is the main theme of my new 2021 Yale University Press book. Rhode, 2012. Such estimates are useful but they are not "laws of physics". While this has obvious costs, it offers at least one benefit. Kahn, 2005. "

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 10, 2022

Tackling Food Insecurity in Urban Food Deserts: A Legal Toolkit By Colleen McGrath , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 10, 2022 Despite their crowded streets, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Newark, Chicago, and other large urban communities are often considered food deserts.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Thank you to Governor Shapiro for coming to Yardley to sign House Bill 735 into law as Act 22 of 2023,” Rep. I reintroduced this bill when I was first elected in 2017, it passed in the House in the 2019-2020 Session, and it was the first bill passed by the House Insurance Committee in 2021-2022, but it did not get across the finish line.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013.

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