Cresforum

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As policymakers charge forward with the implementation of policies that pick winners and losers when it comes to reducing emissions in the transportation industry, transportation leaders are feeling the gear pressure. Innovation in the transportation industry must be encouraged. That is a mistake,” Romanosky said.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is further evidence that the AER is a captured body designed to protect industry, even if it means endangering the public. The Imperial Oil leak and cover-up were not a mistake, they were a direct result of the broken regulatory system in Alberta. million litres of toxic tailings spilling into the environment.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Once these steps are completed and a lease is awarded, BOEM’s regulatory process involves a multi-year site assessment phase followed by construction and operation. His practice focuses on energy and climate law, including regulatory, environmental permitting and compliance, due diligence, and transactional matters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Key ideas discussed at the meeting included increasing connectivity between protected areas, the need for anticipatory legal and regulatory planning for biodiversity conservation, and reinstituting and protecting Indigenous land and wildlife management practices. What are the paths forward?

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Kim has joined the firm’s Government Contracts practice as a partner, resident in Washington, DC. ” Mr. Kim has a broad government contracts practice, with a focus on representing professional services organizations and the life sciences industry.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

To address such problems, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which supervises utility company and grid operator planning, is in the midst of proposing new transmission planning rules. I looked at these new plans to see what is possible, and where some best practices might be applied to regions that are less engaged in planning.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The Advisory Group had a final count of 19 members and consisted of representatives from the automotive and battery industries (6 members), waste industry (5 members), public interest organizations (3 members), and government agencies (5 members). Did the group propose recycling requirements?

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Montrose

MARCH 20, 2024

March 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ideagen, a leading provider of software solutions for regulated industries and Huco Consulting, Inc., By focusing on leveraging routine activities, along with the application of industry-proven solutions, Huco Consulting provides customers with better management systems at lower overall costs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

Biden administration updates processes for reviewing regulations On his first day in office, President Biden signed a memorandum that tasked the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with improving and modernizing regulatory review. A companion document explains how OMB incorporated public input in these revisions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The State of Maine is expected to release the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap in early 2023, and the global offshore wind industry should be watching. Develop export opportunities and industry awareness. Advance Maine-based Innovation to Compete in Emerging National and Global Offshore Wind Industry.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

They are governed by rules written by the federal government – and sometimes provincial governments – and these rules are enforced by various governmental bodies and departments, such as the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institution (OFSI) or the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. The Act aims to maintain the quality of fresh water for the public and existing industries while trying to prevent injections that may pollute fresh water. I’m an oil and gas guy.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

million litres of toxic industrial wastewater known as tailings spilled from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine in the tar sands into the surrounding environment. Local Indigenous communities rely on the land and water for sustenance and cultural practices. A disastrous toxic spill in the tar sands In February 2023, 5.3 What’s next?

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 17, 2023

Arnold & Porter’s Government Contracts & National Security, International Trade, and Life Sciences practices were recognized by Law360 as 2022 "Practice Groups of the Year.” ” The annual ranking honors law firms behind the legal work that "resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.".

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Farmworkers are the foundation of our food and farming industry but have long been subject to inequitable and unjust practices that systematically exclude them from protection. If governments or regulatory agencies don’t protect farmworkers, who will?

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 1, 2021

CHICAGO, December 1, 2021 — Arnold & Porter is pleased to announce that Michael Barnicle has joined the firm’s Government Contracts practice as a partner, resident in Chicago. I look forward to contributing to this dynamic group and its strategic growth strategy in Chicago and nationally.”

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Modern conditions at facilities rather than legacy practices or conditions. EPA reviewed current industry practices for operational and decommissioning materials and wastes to evaluate the types of hazardous materials used and released by the electric power sector. EPA’s Process and Rationale.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Arnold & Porter advised leading government services contractor Amentum Government Services Holdings LLC (“Amentum”) on the government contracts, national security and export control issues related to its recently announced acquisition of PAE Incorporated (“PAE”).

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2023

This week’s hearings are welcome but are only a fraction of the action the federal government must take. For over forty-five years, the Alberta and federal governments have turned a blind eye to the environmental racism happening in the tar sands, allowing disasters like Imperial’s recent leak to take place.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The first is practical impact: some rulings are very helpful to environmental lawyers and others are very unhelpful. If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A generation ago, corporations, even in regulated industries, allocated scant resources to legal compliance. As never before, in giving advice to corporate criminal and regulatory issues, a company's in-house counsel must have at least a working knowledge of the many issues that surround modern criminal and regulatory practice.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The agriculture that he and some 850 other county farmers practice earns roughly $260 million annually, more than most of the state’s other big farm counties. Industrial use is draining a big aquifer in Calhoun County. Agriculture and industry were the only two economic sectors in Michigan that used more water during that period.

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Montrose

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The NAEM 30 Over 30 Award honors industry-leading professionals making significant contributions to the advancement of EHS and sustainability management. The awards were announced at FORUM23 , the annual EHS & Sustainability Management Forum.

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Nanotech

JANUARY 5, 2022

According to the executive summary, a key question was how to create and maintain a sustainable workflow in industry, government, and academia that strengthens and integrates a safe and responsible process of research, innovation, and utilization at all stages of the life cycle of engineered nanomaterials.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The guidance lays out a roadmap to less-risky pipeline construction practices. The new regulatory framework corrects some of the prior loopholes and lessens the risks to residents of the Commonwealth. Our commonwealth is overdue for these protections as fracking runs rampant and the industry clamors for more pipelines for transport.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The original bill and recently introduced chapter amendment potentially affect economy-wide industries and leave much to the rulemaking process over the next two years. . When it comes to new permits, applicants will have to ensure that applications include robust consideration of potential impacts of permit issuance on DACs.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Department of the Interior (“DOI”) recently published its semi-annual regulatory agenda, which includes two new planned rulemakings affecting federal offshore leases. BSEE is currently authorized to assess civil penalties of up to $52,646 per day per regulatory violation. 9598 (Feb. 250.1403; NTL No. 2023-N02 (March 24, 2023).

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 18, 2022

NEW YORK, NY, January 18, 2022 — Arnold & Porter announced today that Mélida Hodgson has joined the firm’s International Arbitration practice as a partner, resident in New York. Hodgson began her career in private practice before becoming a US government litigator at the US Department of Justice.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 26, 2021

CHICAGO, July 26, 2021 — Arnold & Porter announced today that Valarie Hays , a former federal prosecutor, has joined the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice as a partner. Resident in Chicago, she will lead that office’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. ” Ms.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 25, 2021

NEW YORK, NY, October 25, 2021 — Arnold & Porter announced today that Michael Kim Krouse , former Assistant US Attorney in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), has joined the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice as a partner, resident in New York.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

HOUSTON, April 26, 2021 — Arnold & Porter announced today the further expansion of its Complex Litigation practice in Houston with the arrival of Ryan Hartman as a partner. I am excited to join the firm with its diversified practice offerings and talented professionals.".

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

However, there are still some who advocate for carbon pricing to be the central climate regulatory tool (“front and center” as an IMF report has put it) with other policies being “complementary.” But the idea that emissions trading can do the heavy lifting for the rapid emissions reductions we need has just not been borne out in practice.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gray is project director of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) , a subnational coalition of 43 states and provinces in 11 countries working to protect forests through a combination of regulatory enforcement, capacity building, partnerships, and economic policies.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commissioner Barrow Background Barrow has been involved in the utility regulation industry for more than two decades. Starting as a staff attorney at the Commission in 2001, she spent several years practicing administrative regulatory law. Commissioner Barrow will be sworn in during a private ceremony in Harrisburg.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

FDA recently reminded industry of its expectations with respect to the application of good clinical practices (GCP) requirements to such studies in a Letter to Industry. FDA Draft Guidance for Industry, Considerations for the Use of Real-World Evidence to Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Drug and Biological Products (Dec.

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