Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

As we detailed in a pair of 2018 reports , the SWRCB has implemented curtailments only rarely, in certain watersheds, during certain major statewide droughts, using different approaches each time. The SWRCB is currently using watershed-based emergency regulations under Water Code section 1058.5

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MARCH 26, 2024

In 2018, California passed Proposition 12, a high-profile ballot initiative regulating the production and sale of many veal, egg, and pork. The post Farm Animal Housing in 2024: Laws, Proposals and Challenges appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On November 18, the Public Utility Commission approved a settlement related to a massive pipeline failure and fire in Beaver County in 2018 involving the “Revolution Pipeline” – resulting in nearly $2 million in civil penalties and additional preventative measures required by the pipeline operator. Early on the morning of Sept.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Many regulations will have to be promulgated to make all of this happen. The Maryland Department of the Environment has already begun drafting regulations and proposed regulations will first be circulated for public comment in winter 2023 with final regulations adopted in summer 2023.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2018 SB100. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

But regulations for sustainable finance still lag behind international best practices. The federal government launched an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance in 2018 and recently appointed a Sustainable Finance Action Council. We need ambitious regulation for four reasons: .

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

On July 15, the Public Utility Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding regulations related to the pipeline transport of petroleum products and hazardous liquids in intrastate commerce – seeking public comment on proposed amendments to existing regulations along with the addition of new regulations.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. December 2018 Legislative Session (Third Extra Session): Senate Bill 469 made two changes to state stormwater policies. law, but it can guide the use of existing authority.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution. The proposal also introduces regulations for E. Speak up for clean water The EPA is holding public hearings this month on the proposed rules regulating slaughterhouse water pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency released new regulations to address fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas well sites and centralized production facilities. The regulations, for the first time, embrace recent advances in new methane detection technologies. In December 2022, the U.S. Read more here. Read more here. Dr. Arvind P.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Yet the Supreme Court is now set to address numerous challenges to this zombie regulation. The rule required states to submit initial compliance plans in 2016, with final implementation plans in 2018. None of that has happened.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. These changes will set the CES standard at 60% in 2030 and 80% in 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

That is in spite of the discovery in 2018 of “rogue” use of chlorofluorocarbons, probably from factories in China. Even in this day and age, release of the 2018 report and the resulting attention brought to the issue was apparently sufficiently embarrassing to the Chinese government to cause it to crack down on the use of CFCs.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2022

On April 12, the Department of Environmental Protection and others submitted comments to the Public Utility Commission recommending ways to strengthen its regulations covering the safety of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. Photo: Site of 2018 explosion of the brand new Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline in Beaver County.)

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

July 28, 2018. 14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. The 2018 Farm Act, Senate Bill 711 greatly limits nuisance lawsuits against swine operations. Among the more significant changes: Stormwater.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs? Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 18, 2022

Founded in 1871, the National Association of Insurance Commission represents insurance regulators in all fifty states. Voluntary” is in quotes because about 80% of the insurance market is regulated by states that mandate the survey. However, the group has just issued a new “voluntary” survey for insurance companies about climate risks.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2018, California voters passed “Prop 12,” a ballot proposal regulating space requirements for farm animals. The proposal had two main. The post What’s Cooking with Prop 12?: An Update appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Ross involves Prop 12, adopted by California voters in 2018. The basic idea is that states can’t adopt rules that have the practical effect of regulating outside their borders. Many state climate change regulations have impacts on other states. National Pork Producers v. It contains a number of restrictions on factory farming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer. What is an advisory opinion? Advisory opinions provide a court or judge’s interpretation of a law, and are delivered in response to a question from an official, agency, or government.

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Environmental Law Centre

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since 2018, Alberta has had legislation which supports PACE programming via the Clean Energy Improvements Regulation (CEIP Regulation) and amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA).[1] 1] The amendments to the.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

which outlines the evaluations needed for a waste to qualify as a product-- or “coproduct” as defined in DEP’s Residual Waste regulations. From 2018 to 2020, all conventional oil and gas operators reported disposing of 54,327 barrels (nearly 2.3 Failing to meet DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8 Enervest OPR LLC, G&G Gas, Inc.,

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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% Alignment with EU Policy Spain’s climate policy and regulation have aligned with the EU’s since its accession to the Union in 1986. compared to 2005.

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MAY 2, 2023

Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Energy Information Administration Investor-owned utilities are regulated to prevent them from taking advantage of their monopoly to gouge ratepayers. The adjacent investor-owned utility, Southern California Edison, has its rates regulated by the California Public Utility Commission. Image from U.S.

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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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JANUARY 10, 2023

and its implementing Safer Consumer Products regulations (Cal. The Green Chemistry law and Safer Consumer Products regulations were enacted for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, and regulating potentially hazardous chemicals (or “Chemicals of Concern”) in consumer products. 22, § 69501 et seq.), Legal Background.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Among the targets of the critics is the work of William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018 for advancing economic analysis of climate change, and for his steadfast advocacy of a carbon tax. And subsidies and regulation are simply more politically feasible than carbon pricing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For years, state and local air quality districts have implemented polices and regulations aimed at curbing these different sources of pollution, like working to phase out burning as a method of disposing of agricultural waste, incentivizing transitions to gas-powered heat, and creating regulations to limit vehicle pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It is important to acknowledge this oversight in Carson’s work, and in the subsequent regulatory infrastructure designed to regulate chemicals, and to commit ourselves to do better in today’s world by working to identify and address these environmental injustices. These concerns are still alive today.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

‘We can live with this’: How Airbus was allowed to write its own climate rules Transport & Environment PaulaR Wed, 09/20/2023 - 17:10 Saturday, January 27, 2018 Read more Emails released to Transport & Environment after an 18 month-long appeal process have confirmed that when crafting CO2 rules for aircraft, the European Commission – the regulator (..)

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1931 of 2018 on climate change action. Resolution 40807 of 2018 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy on the Climate Change Management Plan for the Energy Sector. The Tribunal compelled the MADS to: Regulate the definition for short-, mid-, and long-term in the context of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC’s goals) (Art.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

In particular, Pourbaix spent years leading the development of the Keystone XL pipeline and the initial bid to have the project approved in the US, and has praised former US president Donald Trump’s approval of the pipeline and cuts to oil and gas industry regulations in the US. The spill was impossible to clean up.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

DEP began the development of the guidance in July 2018 as a result of a settlement of litigation with the Clean Air Council, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, and Mountain Watershed Association related to DEP’s permits issued for the Mariner East Pipeline Project. [On A copy of the related Comment and Response Document is also available.

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