Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

That order is expected to codify many of the proposals of the Roadmap and to direct NYSERDA and the state’s regulated utilities to implement them. W for projects below 1 MW, with initial block sizes of 30 MW for each size category, incentivizing a total of 150 MW across multiple blocks. Con Edison Non-residential/C&I.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 12, 2021

In Genus , the DC Circuit determined that FDA does not have the discretion to regulate as drugs products meeting the definition of both “drug” and “device” under the FDCA, and must instead classify such products as devices in most scenarios. One such category of products is contrast imaging agents. 3d 631 (D.C.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 2, 2022

But even with the oversized flow of dollars into this category, this is not the key driver of ESG (. Still with almost no regulation, funds that elect to focus on companies’ ESG practices may have broad discretion in how they apply ESG factors to their investments. Congress is expected to act on EGS mandatory disclosures in 2022.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Moreover, agencies can apparently give greater responsibility to local government units (which aren’t covered by subsection (G)) and to state governments for actions that are federally regulated but not federally funded. Coverage of agency regulations. Agencies are required to issue regulations but there is no deadline for doing so.

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

It remanded the case to the Fifth Circuit for further review of a narrow category of state officials who might still be sued in state court. If the Fifth Circuit adopts this rigorous threshold of proof for specific concrete injuries-in-fact, it would bolster federal Article III limits on Congress’ power to authorize citizen suits.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Congress enacted the. identifies issues that need to be addressed, determines alternatives that would correct the issues, studies any potential environmental issues, complies with environmental regulations, and involves the public throughout the process. by Hunter Sutherland. What is NEPA? National Environmental Policy Act.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Many businesses may have a head start on compliance if they have taken steps to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Indeed, Washington and New York states have developed their own proposed legislation along the same lines.

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Brag

AUGUST 23, 2023

” The report notes that in response to EO 14081, in May 2023, EPA announced changes to its regulations concerning GE plant-incorporated protectants (PIP). EPA “intends to consider additional exemptions and expand the list of categories not requiring EPA confirmation as biotechnology progresses.”

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 18, 2016

The agency divided up actions into four categories: Immediate Actions, Framework Actions, Early Mandatory Actions, and Later Mandatory Actions (beyond the first year of implementation). Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21 st Century Act (the “Act”), EPA has planned out its implementation activities during the first year.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 5, 2024

Notably, USDA chose to forgo protections for “ market vulnerable individuals ,” a novel and expansive category included in the proposed rule that may have protected growers whose ability to compete fairly was impeded in a highly concentrated marketplace on those grounds.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 118th Congress is also due to reauthorize the Farm Bill this year.  Congress should build on that investment with more conservation funding for farmers in the Bay region in the 2023 Farm Bill.  Congress should build on that investment with more conservation funding for farmers in the Bay region in the 2023 Farm Bill. 

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, approved by Congress and signed by President Biden last November, provides roughly $50 billion over five years for water and sewer systems, the largest federal infusion in the sector in a half century. Congress established the Clean Water SRF in 1987. The culture change came just in time.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

To address HFC usage, the American Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Act was enacted by congress on December 27 th , 2020 and is applicable to eighteen specific HFC substances. Each of the 18 regulated substances were assigned a corresponding MTEVe exchange value. 7675 subsection (c)(1): .

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Regulators in New York require utilities to perform climate risk assessments. Supreme Court could transform federal climate regulation. Chicago’s heating ordinance already required landlords to regulate apartment building temperatures during cold weather, but it had no similar requirements when the temperature exceeds 68 degrees.

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Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In a case that could open the door to more citizen suits to enforce mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act—a category of enforcement actions that has so far failed to gain much traction—the 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion broadly upholding a non-profit organization’s standing.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 13, 2021

And, like the VCDPA, the Act contains terms and reflects concepts used in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ” All processors of regulated controllers are subject to the CPA, regardless of their size, location or other characteristics.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

EPA states that it “estimates it has less than half of the resources needed to review and approve new chemicals in the manner Congress intended and observes that the statutory deadlines for completing nine of the first 10 risk evaluations were missed.” Commentary.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Prior law authorized this kind of regulation but also required the agency to consider whether a particular fire involved exceptional circumstances, such as being next to a wilderness area. Under both the longstanding regulations first adopted in 1978 and the Trump Administration’s 2020 revision of the regulations, there was an exception.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently issued a report to Congress on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) that outlines a variety of policy recommendations to bolster CCS projects in the US. Indeed, CEQ is in the midst of developing new NEPA regulations and guidance for consideration of climate impacts.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

In 1976, in the National Petroleum Reserves Act (“Reserves Act”), Congress transferred authority over the NPR-A from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. Statements by BLM suggest they do, however.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2022

Rio Verde Foothills, where Nabity, Simpson and at least 500 other homeowners rely on the depot for their drinking water, falls into that category. Nabity and Simpson had waded into the complexity of Arizona law and regulation, and the rugged terrain of politics, to find a solution.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources. The Clean Power Plan Rule.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Although the guidance resolves several lingering questions, others remain and will presumably be addressed through implementing regulations issued by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council and agency-specific clauses for contracts and contract-like instruments not covered by the FAR. Applicability. Vaccine Mandate v.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. EPA to overturn Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

A discussion of ESG disclosures, and what the industry may expect from these other financial regulators on ESG matters under the Biden-Harris Administration, will be the subject of an upcoming Advisory. * * * * *. Financial Regulators."[[N: The Working Group is comprised of financial services trade associations (e.g.,

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

The government’s efforts to control methane have followed a complicated path, involving three different congressional actions: section 111 of the Clean Air Act, which allows EPA to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases; a congressional override of an earlier regulatory action; and a newer statute that creates a fee on methane emissions.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally. That was rebuffed.

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JUNE 30, 2022

But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in Section 111(d). A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body. New York v. United States, 505 U. 144, 187 (1992).

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Arnold Porter

JULY 2, 2021

Just before the July 4 recess, legislators in the House and Senate put down two important markers for biomedical legislation expected to be in play for next year’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) User Fee Amendments (UFA) discussions in Congress. The Secretary must now issue regulations (rather than guidance) to implement.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The opinion can point EPA toward regulation that will be both far more effective in addressing the existential threat of climate change and consistent with the law and past practice. Even within that limited universe, adopting regulations on a source-category-by-source-category basis will stretch on for decades.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

That ruling would leave EPA free to treat owners of fossil fuel plants as a separate category and to require the owners to switch some of their generation to lower carbon or zero carbon sources. The Biden Administration would have plenty to work with in crafting new regulations. Overruling Massachusetts v.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Since the election, not a week has passed without news that ESG is an increasingly critical focus of the financial regulators, federal and state lawmakers, and investors. We also summarize the issue of climate-related disclosures from the perspective of the banking regulators. Last week may have been the most newsworthy yet.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2021

Nearly 89 percent of nine western states are in some form of drought, and more than a quarter of the region is considered in exceptional drought, the worst category in the U.S. Al Jazeera reports that although the funds were already approved by Congress, the Idaho Republican used procedures under a 2018 U.S. Drought Monitor.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It then discusses the potential to use a cap-and-invest approach to mitigate GHG emissions from transportation in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic and addresses two key policy considerations: the type of fuels to be covered and the point of regulation. Through independent regulations, each state’s CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

Water Bills in Congress. Part two is about regulations. The forecast is for three to five major hurricanes, those with wind speeds above 111 miles per hour that are rated category 3, 4, or 5. The post Federal Water Tap, May 24: In Congress, Lawmakers Target Water Debt Relief, Drought Response appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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