Energy & the Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Fatuous politicians, bureaucrats lacking expertise (says Francis Fenton of The Manhattan Contrarian , feckless government policy , and children who can’t sleep at night and the parents who terrify them, are the results. Answer to the quiz: Both have been condemned by the current “science” … and the Catholic Church. Answered correctly?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The goal of the task force is to strengthen the role of science in evaluating how elections are conducted, and to use election science to identify best practices and make recommendations for relevant policy changes to improve how our elections are administered. The task force will seek to: Ensure fair representation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Despite the scientific consensus on the cause and urgency of the issue, the fossil fuel industry has used disinformation and delay tactics to slow down the enactment of climate policies, resulting in our current reality, where increases in global average temperatures are rapidly approaching 1.5 Approaching 1.5 3) Advocate for change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2024

TODAY 1:00: House Republican Policy Committee hearing on Balancing Your Budget & Thermostat- Consumer- Focused Energy Policy. TODAY 1:00: House Republican Policy Committee hearing on Balancing Your Budget & Thermostat- Consumer- Focused Energy Policy. Click Here to watch online. Juniata St.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

State and federal governments have a solid foundation for a broad range of government policies that combine the public interest with electric utilities building the power grid. All of these states recognize that transmission policy is a key part of the supply chain for energy and the economy.

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Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2023

Another step would be to make all federal employees pass a test to show they have a “correct” understanding of the Constitution. The MQD is often framed as an attack on the power of bureaucrats, but in every case where it has been used, the policy decision was actually made by the president. The current attack on Chevron is similar.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2023

.” An authoritative, global voice for water, Circle of Blue uniquely combines innovations in journalism, data research, and public policy. Among its accomplishments, Circle of Blue’s trusted field reporting and convenings have triggered policy shifts in China and the U.S. ” The post Explorers Club Names J.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2022

The Environmental Health Project and HealthFirstPA will host a July 21 webinar -- Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It -- from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Read more here. Mitchell C. Hescox , President and CEO of The Evangelical Environmental Network.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The LCFS is the leading example of a Clean Fuel Standard , an approach to transportation fuel policy that holds oil refiners accountable to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels. I have long been a supporter of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). What broke the LCFS?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Federal policies like redlining––the Federal Housing Administration’s use of lending guidelines to favor White neighborhoods with lower pollution burdens in grading mortgage risk–– co-located Black and Brown communities near unsafe, toxic, and noxious land uses.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

On February 14, 2024, Marcellus Drilling News reported National Fuel Gas Company , parent to Seneca Resources drilling and NFG Midstream pipeline companies, is suing a former employee and several vendors for buying and installing counterfeit parts at several compressor stations.” “One Related Articles The Week - Energy: -- PA Taxpayers To Give $130.9

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Despite being a good and necessary policy, Bill C-50 faced fierce opposition from the oil and gas industry and the politicians who defend big polluters. Bill C-50 ensures a more certain, consistent and reliable approach to energy transition policies The Sustainable Jobs Act is a law that mandates future government action.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 12, 2023

Please contact Arthur F. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. This also means that policies that work for the advanced world might not produce the same results in their counterpart. What is more, these policies might not even work for the former if they aim for a different, greener world.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Frontiers has today published a new author policy designed to help prevent cases of “authorship-for-sale” among its research publications, a term used throughout the industry which refers to the unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. This number is likely undercounted and misattributed because heat-induced illnesses and conditions are often not traced correctly to their source. Poor working conditions make farmworkers extra vulnerable to heat exposure and illness.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The draft guidance addresses scientific advancements, peer-reviewed Agency guidance, and the Biden administration’s new priorities, policies, and direction on EJ by incorporating Executive Order 14096. That determination is “ultimately a policy judgment.” The draft revision updates and expands on EPA’s original guidance issued in 2016.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Privacy Policy : By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. Traditionally, these tasks are handled internally by the Mineral Board’s own staff and counsel. A copy of the Mineral Board’s agenda can be found here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 2, 2023

Having been dubbed “the last plantation” in the 1990s for advancing policies benefiting White farmers and ranchers and large corporations at the expense of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other people of color) farmers, the USDA has a lot of injustice to repair. But are they enough?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 15, 2022

There has been a strong commitment to scientific integrity at EPA under EPA administrator Michael Regan’s leadership, and the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) is currently working on a framework for agencies to follow as they implement and enforce scientific integrity policies.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA. We know that because plaintiffs sought to challenge the entirety of Montana’s state energy system––its de facto energy policy––even after the Legislature repealed its de jure energy policy ahead of the trial.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 3, 2023

” NEPA’s goals and policies are reaffirmed in section 105. The Biden Administration has featured executive orders and an EPA policy elaborating on the concept of scientific integrity and ways of protecting it. Textualism. NEPA Section 105. This is a point worth making.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

February 21, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

Last month’s report on solar geoengineering research from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consolidated a shift in the discourse on this controversial technology. The risk-risk framing perhaps helpfully emphasizes climate change risks, which have long seemed under-estimated in policy responses.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed the authority of the Louisiana Tax Commission to correct property tax assessments of pipelines when a local assessor uses values that are too high or do not reflect fair market value. In Enerfin Field Services v. 22-740 (La.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

. -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 4 [PaEN] -- The Department of Environmental Protection published a notice in the November 4 PA Bulletin correcting the notice on additional public hearings on the Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy. -- The Department of Environmental (..)

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Law and Environment

JUNE 29, 2023

SJC-13352 (2023), addressing the so-called “cat’s paw” theory of liability and concluding that an employer can still be found liable for violating Massachusetts’ employment discrimination statute where there is evidence that a mid-level manager, directed to lay off employees, furthered a discriminatory corporate policy without knowingly doing so.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers two UN reports on humankind’s impact on Earth’s lands and waters, worsening food crises in the Horn of Africa, and Las Vegas’s water insurance policy. Plus, Circle of Blue reports on Michigan’s opportunity to correct decades of water mismanagement.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 23, 2023

The three judge panel held that the federal 2005 Energy Policy and Conservation Act preempts the Berkeley ordinance. Make no mistake about it, the 2005 Energy Policy and Conservation Act is the same law that banned the Edison 100 watt incandescent light bulb and gives us the 179D tax deduction (.

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Energy & the Law

MAY 25, 2021

Severe overspending, breaching company policy, and failing to timely notify the other party DO (THIS IS THE CORRECTION) meet the standard. Co-author Ashley Atwood*. Apache Corporation v. Castex Offshore Inc. et al, answers the question, What constitutes willful misconduct in oil field operations?

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Regulators reference it when setting timelines for big corrective projects like reducing combined sewer overflows. government water policy. The Financial Capability Assessment describes a community’s capacity to bear the costs of preventing sewage pollution of waterways. Nominations are due March 2, 2023. Details are in the above link.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

At the time, GRL had a policy not to accept comments for publication. Instead, they had a somewhat opaque and, I assume, rarely used, process by which you could submit a complaint about a paper and upon review, the editors would decide whether a correction, amendment, or even retraction, was warranted. Why bother?

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Issuers that already have clawback policies will want to carefully consider the impact of the Final Rules and evaluate whether adjustments are needed to those policies. Key Points. N: “Big R” restatements require the issuer to file an Item 4.02

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The court’s conclusions would be correct, however, even setting aside the matter of deferring to the legislature’s conclusions here. Both outcomes would be wrong as a matter of theory and of policy. Download as PDF. The post What power does the state have over land-use regulation in California? appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 4, 2024

WPATH is considered the leading global scientific and medical authority on “gender medicine,” and in recent decades, its Standards of Care have shaped the guidance, policies and practices of governments, medical associations, public health systems and private clinics across the world.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 1, 2022

So, they set out to better understand how historical housing policies and flood hazard zones have unequally effected various communities within our city. These shapefiles include FEMA Flood Hazard Zones, city-funded affordable housing projects built between 1994 and 2019, correctional facilities, and redlined neighborhoods.

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