Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The SWRCB is currently using watershed-based emergency regulations under Water Code section 1058.5 Timeline of curtailment-related actions and flow for the Shasta River watershed from October 2020 through September 2022. Note that curtailments would also have been warranted in the Shasta River watershed in 2020.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

As Anne Reynolds, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy – New York (“ACE-NY”) stated when the law was enacted, “[Section 94-c] improves the process and will hopefully get people to work, building wind and solar projects.” ORES’s determination is the next step in that process.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 20, 2021

It is the latest development in China’s regulations of drug change management since the promulgation of the newly amended Drug Administration Law in 2019 and more than 20 regulations and technical guidelines. Latest Developments in China’s Drug Change Management Regulations. ???????????????.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators a record total of 6,860 violations for all infractions of law and regulations in 2023, nearly 52% more than in 2021. Read more here (2017-2021). Court Order (2020 violations) -- TW Phillips 1 - Clarion County, Monroe Twp. [ Read more here. Read more here (2022).

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 26, 2021

As we look back in this ‘year in review’ at our most read blog posts in 2021, at a time when most of us have accepted that we will never go back to exactly the way things were, we are no doubt collectively ready for a new year. 2022 will be the Paleolithic year of ESG law. Gleaning the Direction of ESG Regulation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We then drafted state legislation to require disclosure of climate change-related financial risks, which was introduced by California State Senator Henry Stern as SB 449 (Stern) in the 2021-2022 session. We convened legislative leaders, agency leaders and financial experts to share the recommendation and further refine it.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) has proposed and invited comment on a 60-day postponement of the effective date of recently finalized amendments to Regulation F, which implements the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Comments on the proposed rule are due no later than May 19, 2021.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). Under Annex 1 of the EU Regulation, by 2030, Spain must have reduced its GHG emissions by 37.7% Following the EU’s lead with the approval of the European Green Deal , Spain has produced a new framework to address climate change, including strategies, plans, and laws.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

On August 15, the Allegheny County Health Department released an Air Quality Annual Review covering accomplishments in 2021. Bogen wrote this introduction to the report-- In 2021, ACHD expanded and implemented new technology and programs and completed some long-term studies that will inform our future. Dr. Debra L.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Elder Vogel (R-Beaver) at the March 22 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DEP’s budget request , the Department of Environmental Protection said it is projecting a $1,581,000 deficit in funding for the Oil and Gas Regulation Program. The claims that Pennsylvania has the toughest oil and gas regulations in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

But solar is the big winner here, with it’s share of total US capacity increasing from 7% in 2020 to 29% in 2050. This is where the analysis behind AEO2022 dates itself to November 2021. Capacity factors for existing natural gas combined cycle plants are cut in half, from nearly 60% in 2020 to below 30% in 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] barrels or 0.41

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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. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. That amount, however, is less than what Ohio households have already paid in coal subsidies since January 2020. Ohio regulators need to act.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

Under Governor Northam’s direction, Virginia’s Energy Policy shifted quite dramatically from when he first took office in January 2018 to what we have at the end of the 2020 Legislative Session. The new decade has been a busy start for Virginians as the General Assembly started its 2020 session on January 8. DEQ’s carbon regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2 Starting with stakeholders.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

The 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report issued by DEP in December shows conventional oil and gas operators received a record 610 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them and unconventional shale gas operators received 27 NOVs. Click Here for DEP’s summary of violations for 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

20-616, 2021 WL 922749 (2d Cir. 11, 2021), the Second Circuit recently ruled that broad immunity under Section 230 protects internet providers who block third-party content they deem objectionable from liability. 20-10856, 2021 WL 805534 (11th Cir. 2020-1909, 2021 WL 865359 (Fed. § 230(c)(2). In Domen v.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA’s Class VI Regulations Section 1421 of the Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that EPA establish Underground Injection Control (UIC) program regulations to protect underground sources of drinking water (USDW) from risks associated with underground fluid injections.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In 2020, solar panels provided about 40% of new U.S. Overall, more than 3% of electricity in the United States was produced using solar technologies in 2020. This change in the RCRA regulations could provide one system for handling all discarded solar panels, without regard to hazardous or not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Following on from last month's review of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Part 2 considers the position in relation to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and how we see its regulatory actions developing over 2021 and beyond. * * * * *. Now that these businesses fall within its purview, the FCA has started extending its regulatory oversight.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MARCH 29, 2020

Both the federal government and state governments have been moving forward with significant new regulation of the PFAS compounds. Summarized below are actions taken at both the federal and state levels to regulate PFAS substances. Federal Regulation of PFOS and PFOA. On February 20, 2020, U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. percent of the cost of regulating their industry; the unconventional industry pays the remainder.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Several pieces of energy-industry legislation are teed up for debate as state legislatures reconvene for their first sessions of 2021. The Texas Legislature convened for its 2021 session earlier this month with several issues on the agenda. Pre-filed and introduced by State Sen. Senate Bill 119 ( S. 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 10, 2021

On November 23, 2021, the federal banking agencies—i.e., On November 23, 2021, the federal banking agencies—i.e., as defined under the respective regulations of the Agencies. ” as such terms are defined in the Rule. bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies, state member banks, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The agenda for the December 1 DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting includes updates on Chapter 78 regulation changes, the new federal abandoned well plugging program and more. The last draft of the waste handling regulation update was posted by DEP in September, 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

We start this month with a focus on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), considering how we see the agency framing its work in 2021. * * * * *. During 2020, and going into 2021, the SFO has been met with both achievement and setback. Retrospection can often be a good indicator of what is to come.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 8, 2021

The area at Duffins Creek now returns to zoning laws applied by the City of Pickering and its status as an “urban reserve” with environmentally protective zoning is restored. In late 2020, the Ontario government authorized an MZO for the construction of a warehouse and other facilities on this important coastal wetland complex.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

What is more, at COP26, advanced economies acknowledged that they have not met their pledges of providing US$100 billion per year in climate finance to developing countries by 2020. In 2021-2022, when most other kinds of stocks and bonds were experiencing negative growth due to the pandemic, Green Bonds recorded a growth rate of 200%.

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 13, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposed rule to restore criminal penalties for accidental killing of migratory birds, revoking the January 7, 2021, final regulation that limited the enforcement of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Public comments must be received or postmarked on or before June 7, 2021.

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