Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The key changes DOE is proposing to make to its categorical exclusions are as follows: Solar PV Projects : DOE’s current NEPA regulations include a categorical exclusion ( Exclusion B5.16 ) for certain categories of solar PV projects.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gray: This is really about a distinction between regulated compliance markets and voluntary carbon markets. Regulated compliance markets, like California’s or Quebec’s Cap-and-Trade Programs or the European Union’s Emissions Trading System, place a legal requirement on emitting companies.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2024

With respect to the first category, registrants must disclose climate-related risks that are reasonably likely to have a material impact on the registrant’s business strategy, operational results, or financial condition. This was a significant concession to the rule’s opponents.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

In a presentation to North Carolina regulators, Duke named several specific resources it lost during the storm—all fossil fuel generators—but didn’t provide a detailed breakdown of what types of failures prompted it to begin rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve.

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Ivy Protocol

JULY 25, 2023

Regulations Rising: A Global Response In response, stricter regulations are taking shape across the globe. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have taken steps for greater transparency, standardization, and regulation. The paper further classifies claim deceptiveness into five categories (see fig. 3 Claim deceptiveness.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The categories include: PFOA and/or PFOS manufacturers (including importers and importers of articles). Private Party Cleanups – Private parties that conduct cleanup consistent with the Nation Contingency Plan (NCP) can recover cleanup costs from potentially responsible parties (PRPs). What parties are affected by the proposed rulemaking?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Pipeline stream crossing sites are regulated through permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection. The Creek was also named by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year and called a “timeless treasure.” Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We don't want to see those go into the abandoned category and make the situation worse. Updated Conventional Drilling Standards “There are some things in the [proposed DEP] Chapter 78 regulations [related to conventional drilling] that I think are punitive,” said Stewart.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

Previously, the environmental sector was focused on air and water pollution, and wildlife conservation. The market heats up: ESG and green finance take off As policy and regulation improved, the green job market heated up and ESG became a hot topic within businesses. But analysis based on wider datasets is more conservative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products. Many oil and gas companies use a voluntary standard created by the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA).

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Smith Enviorment

AUGUST 1, 2018

The people have a right, including the right to use traditional methods, to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife, subject only to laws enacted by the General Assembly and rules adopted pursuant to authority granted by the General Assembly to (i) promote wildlife conservation and management and (ii) preserve the future of hunting and fishing.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The creation of these “ low traffic zones ,” or LTZs , can take a number of different forms, including, most prominently, (1) bans on one or more categories of vehicles and (2) fees or tolls that may be charged to all vehicles equally or made applicable only to certain classes of vehicles. Energy Policy & Conservation Act and the U.S.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 16, 2015

to conserve water. As more cities accept directives from Sacramento to conserve water, situations like the one in Glendora are less likely o happen, especially now that the. The Court ruled that cities may use zoning regulations as long as they promote public health, safety, morals, or general welfare. zoning code.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

He noted that the State “can’t regulate” public acceptance and instead needs to do outreach and education, among other things. The CLCPA requires that 70% of the State’s electricity be generated by renewable energy by 2030 and that 100% be generated by zero carbon sources, including nuclear and renewables, by 2040. Law §§ 66-p(2)(a), (b).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin distributing the additional $20 billion the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated to Farm Bill conservation programs.  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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

The species contained in these two categories, early and late successional, have functional redundancy , which means they have similar functions within an ecosystem. The shade from hemlocks reduces sunlight that reaches the forest floor and plays a crucial role in regulating temperature beneath the canopy.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Environmental Groups Challenged Delay in Enforcement of Landfill Methane Regulations. 16-1-01001-5 (Wash. verdict June 7, 2017; sentencing June 23, 2017).

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 9, 2022

The project at issue is a multifamily development on a vacant parcel of land in the City of Santa Cruz, a portion of which has slopes in the 15+ and 30+ percent categories. The PDP entailed two variations from the City’s usual regulations for the site to allow tandem parking and development within 10 feet of the 30+ percent slope.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

3d 605 do not apply to decisions that do not deprive adjacent property owners of significant property interests, and which have only a de minimus effect on land, and CEQA notices for environmental determinations – such as the notice of exemption determination by a nonelected official at issue here – fall into that category. 4th 1209, 1223.)

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. stimulations of th[e] lease, [and] the Secretary of the Interior’s regulations and formal orders.” (It For example, BLM has previously said that ConocoPhillips’ leases entitle it to extract oil and gas resources, “subject to regulation.”

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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. urban water use goes to maintaining outdoor spaces.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We also report on recent updates in relation to sanctions and the growth of cryptoasset-related regulation. Regulators concluding the HBOS investigation with no further action against senior managers. million for misleading its regulator, the FRC. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022. KPMG fined £18.4

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

Most of the rhetoric and activity has occurred in the first two categories in the US, so we focus there, in an effort to differentiate political narratives from legal reality. More recently, Nike’s support of Colin Kapernick and Black Lives Matter movement sparked a conservative #boycottNike pushback on social media.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In order to regulate existing power plants—especially existing coal-fired plants—EPA turned to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Section 111(d) provides that EPA can require states to submit plans to control emissions from existing plants once it has issued a standard for new sources of emissions in the same category.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MAY 8, 2020

The NWPR covers four categories of waters: The territorial seas and traditional navigable waters (i.e., The rule specifically excludes certain types of waters from regulation under the Clean Water Act, including the following: Groundwater (although the very recent ruling by the U.S. What waters are federally protected under the NWPR?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Presents Mira Lloyd Dock Diversity Awards To Marlisa Yoder-Bontrager Of Lancaster, And Twin Sisters Keisha & Tarsha Scovens Off Lancaster & Philadelphia; Forestry Assn.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. The court stated: “Any injury allegedly stemming from the prospect that the Executive Order has delayed the issuance of unspecified regulations relating to a broadly defined area of concern is too abstract and speculative to support standing.” Trump , No.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Rothman (University of Maryland), Veronica Manka’a Tangiri (Prince William Soil and Water Conservation District, Lund University), Aubrey Tingler (University of Maryland) and Tatjana Washington (University of Chicago). Park (University of Minnesota), Brandon A. Quintana (California State University, Fullerton), Sarah E.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Not far away, Tim Stutzman, another conservation-minded farmer, feeds cattle and farms 2,800 acres in Morenci. Regulation Begins. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The final rule comes at a time when investors are facing increasing financial risks due to climate change, and the amorphous category of “ESG investing” has come under increasing political attack from conservative policymakers. ESG analysis can now be understood as squarely within the fiduciary obligations of a plan.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 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 Denied Petitions Seeking TSCA Regulation of Chemicals in Cigarettes and Cosmetics.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 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. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS.

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