The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This is the first in a series of articles in which Liskow’s offshore team will discuss the regulatory framework for wind energy projects in federal waters and highlight legal issues pertinent to this dynamic area. The regulatory process leading to the Vineyard Wind Project offshore Massachusetts began in 2010. federal waters.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Peter Petokas , from Lycoming College Clean Water Institute , found habitats of the rare Eastern Hellbender salamander are being significantly impacted by sediment plumes from natural gas pipeline crossing and shale gas drilling-related water withdrawal construction projects. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

You can find the complete list of federal supports announced in 2020 in the report, but here are the major categories we were able to track. Notably, the agency loaned up to $500 million for the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, a project opposed by hereditary leaders from all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.

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Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) published notice in the Federal Register of a proposed rule amending its regulations authorizing permits for eagle incidental take and eagle nest take. For projects or activities that do not qualify for a general permit, individual or specific permits will remain available.

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Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) published notice in the Federal Register of a proposed rule amending its regulations authorizing permits for eagle incidental take and eagle nest take. For projects or activities that do not qualify for a general permit, individual or specific permits will remain available.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts. The Sabin Center’s Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative provides pro bono legal counsel to community members who support renewable energy projects.) .

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

143-215.10C, to require a groundwater compliance boundary at animal operations: “[animal operations] shall have a compliance boundary as may be established by rule or permit for various categories of animal waste management systems and beyond which groundwater quality standards may not be exceeded.” See: House Bill 600, Sec.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The CLCPA will require siting and developing a very large number of major renewable energy projects at an unprecedented pace throughout New York State. So far, ORES has met all statutory deadlines and, for six out of seven of the approved projects , ORES issued its final decisions in “around six months,” well within the one-year deadline.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Completely, siloing knowledge into closed, hyper-specialized categories often means that disciplines end up communicating poorly to each other. This project is suggesting that it can be done and that it requires big, but doable transformations. It’s easy to regulate, it doesn’t have to be a tax.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. Integration of the NEPA process with NASA projects. on-site construction projects.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

The relative windfall will assist with capital improvements even as utilities and state agencies must contend with rising project costs and staffing limitations due to inflation and labor shortages. . million low-interest loan from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to finance the project. The city received a $9.8

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ninth Circuit Reinstated Listing of Bearded Seal as Threatened Based on Climate Change Projections. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Here are the additions to the U.S. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Murray Energy Corp.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. City of San Diego (2021) Cal.App.5th. The Litigation.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 9, 2022

In an opinion filed on December 16, 2021, and belatedly ordered published on January 13, 2022, the Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected a CEQA challenge to a small multifamily project in the City of Santa Cruz. The Project, City’s Review And Approval Process, And The Litigation. Ocean Street Extension Neighborhood Assn.

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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. Allco is an owner, operator, and developer of solar energy projects throughout the country, including in Georgia and New York. Friends of the Wild Swan v. June 1, 2017).

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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. GRIC is constructing a federally-financed irrigation network to increase farming operations to 75,000 ancestral acres from the current 35,000. Home values collapse.

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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

The so-called “ Willow Project ” will be developed by ConocoPhillips and involve the drilling of up to 199 new oil wells, spread across three well pads, along with the construction of various related infrastructure, including pipelines, processing facilities, roads, and boat ramps. It will also worsen global climate change.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 28, 2022

On June 9, 2022, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a notice of proposed rulemaking to set minimum standards and requirements for projects funded through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (“NEVI”), which was created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s important to note these sites, most in rural or suburban areas, weren’t contaminated prior to oil and gas industry drilling, pipeline and compressor station construction and installation and operation of other oil and gas infrastructure. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s important to note these sites, most in rural or suburban areas, weren’t contaminated prior to oil and gas industry drilling, pipeline and compressor station construction and installation and operation of other oil and gas infrastructure. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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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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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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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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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

Million Available For Service Providers, Graduate Students To Advance Sustainable Agriculture In Northeast [PaEN] -- DCNR Grants Newsletter: Project Spotlights; Upcoming Grant Events; Much More ! 15 -- PA Utility Law Project, Public Citizen Host Feb. WHYY, Drexel To Host Discussion On Endangered Species Feb.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court said it was not arbitrary or capricious to rely on climate change models that projected through 2100. Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. Second, the court found that the plaintiffs had failed to establish “organizational” standing. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They also attract criticism from environmental advocates for their roles as leaders of the county chapter of the Michigan Farm Bureau, which represents big commercial producers and routinely opposes environmental regulation. Regulation Begins. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. .

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2022

The OMB releases guidelines for using American-made materials in federal infrastructure bill projects. The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates packaged drinks, lowered the current standard that ranges between 0.8 What they worry about is whether enough American-made products will be available to do all the constructing.

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

First Circuit Declined to Bar Construction of Power Line in Maine. Army Corps of Engineers acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it concluded that the overall project was not a “major federal action” pursuant to NEPA. Federal Court Upheld Environmental Review for Forest Thinning Project. Department of Energy , Nos.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Circuit did not address arguments regarding the adequacy of FERC’s environmental review of the project, including FERC’s treatment of climate change, because the court found that the individual petitioner who asserted National Environmental Policy Act claims did not have standing. Environmental Defense Fund v. June 21, 2021).

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Taylor points to Miami Beach, which finances expensive climate-adaptation measures like pumps and raised streets through the construction of new high-rises. The Federal Housing Finance Agency regulates two quasi-governmental housing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which buy over half of all new mortgages in the country.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

The industry also contends that current hydrogen blending projects “do not include components of the overall value chain that will be critical to the availability of low-GHG hydrogen blending throughout the power sector.” We’ll see which category the federal judiciary fits in. That argument seems wrong to me.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

1303 ), which would limit federal financial assistance to infrastructure projects (broadly defined to include broadband, electrical transmission and water projects, among others) that only use iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials. Roads, Bridges, & Major Projects. The bill provides $2.5

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