Environment, Law, and History

JULY 28, 2022

I recently participated in the great Legal Histories of Empire conference that met in Maynooth, Ireland. I've often noted before connections labor issues and environmental regulation , but Braatz's research suggests a new (and unsettling) angle.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Satellite data is one monitoring tool regulators turn to in this very dry year. Regulators at the State Water Resources Control Board voted in August to cut off many farms and towns that withdraw water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin watershed, which drains about 40 percent of the state’s land. Photo taken June 15, 2021.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MARCH 3, 2024

EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) with regarding delineating all wetlands in Ohio, both federally regulated and isolated wetlands. Back on August 29, 2023, U.S. Supreme Court in Sackett v. or “isolated.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

This dataset uses an emissions accounting framework called scope analysis to classify and quantify emissions from a given entity into three distinct categories. UCS’ recent co-authored submission drew heavily on these data to illustrate that addressing the climate crisis requires that states regulate corporations.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The CAP, released in 2021, details emissions reduction strategies across six categories: energy supply, building decarbonization, transportation and land use, housing, green infrastructure, and waste reduction. The post Funding & Financing San Francisco’s Ambitious Climate Action Plan appeared first on Legal Planet.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

3 during periods of startup and shutdown cannot be sufficiently tied to particular, specific categories of affected sources to ensure the work practices serve to limit emissions from the particular category and are practically enforceable.” After noting that LAC 33:III.2201.K Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2023

This report, which forms part of the Sabin Center’s broader Climate Law and Finance Initiative , provides a toolkit to help academics, attorneys, insurance practitioners, and industry regulators model (re)insurer climate litigation risk. The economic impact of climate litigation can be enormous.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law ’s latest paper, Permitting CO 2 Pipelines: Assessing the Landscape of Federal and State Regulations , assesses the legal framework for developing CO 2 pipelines to support DAC Hub projects. What are the Legal Barriers to Building CO 2 Pipelines, and How Can They Be Resolved?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. Launching weather balloons is a very lightly regulated activity, pursued by hobbyists and citizen scientists in many countries. Relevant FAA regulations here , FCC regulations here , with a clear summary from a citizen-science NGO here ).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulates the derivatives market and is now considering updates to its risk management regulations. The regulations currently specify ten areas that these programs must address, including market, credit, and operational risks (described above).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Among the international legal instruments that might apply to ocean CDR are the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention or LC) and the 1996 Protocol to the Convention (London Protocol or LP). The 2008 resolution and 2010 assessment framework are not legally binding.

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Renewable + Law

JULY 17, 2020

872 and implemented the largest overhaul to FERC’s regulations affecting Qualifying Facilities (QFs) in more than a decade. Legally-Enforceable Obligations. For QFs, establishing a legally-enforceable obligation, or a LEO, represents that point in time when power purchase agreement pricing is locked in.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

and Latin America offices from the Environmental Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP are recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide and The Legal 500 Latin America 2023 Guide. Brill Industry Focus > Energy > Energy Regulation: Oil and Gas Orange County Diedre A. Thirty attorneys in 13 U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

California regulators are facing challenges, however, as they balance goals to rapidly “electrify everything” without drastically increasing customers’ electricity bills or overloading the grid, and to equitably distribute the costs grid operation and maintenance.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

Many in the housing-quality and building-decarbonization space have been eagerly awaiting this opinion, in the hopes that it would clarify the scope of state and local governments’ authority to regulate local utility infrastructure. But see below for an interesting caveat here.) Why does EPCA preempt gas-appliance bans?

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 9, 2022

The proposals expand the universe of what must be disclosed as well as the information required within each category of disclosures. The Blog/Web Site should not be used as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state regarding a particular matter.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The UCLA Law Tribal Legal Development Clinic published a white paper on the need for confidentiality within tribal cultural resource protection , which was recently highlighted in a panel held by the UCLA Native Nations Law & Policy Center. Potential Legal and Administrative Solutions. Agency Discretion. Download as PDF.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Besides issuing the study, UCS joined California Communities Against Toxics, Clean Power Lake County, Rio Grande International Study Center and the Sierra Club in a lawsuit filed in mid-December against the EPA for failing to take legally required action to protect the public from commercial sterilizers’ ethylene oxide emissions.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets. Agricultural Methane Regulation. The post Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

This post is the third in a series of blogs that address specific legal features of the rule: Part One offered a summary of the final rule, and delved into the materiality threshold that was added throughout the rule, including for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure. See, e.g. , Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. , 218 (1947)).

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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. DEP’s Oil and Gas Program banned the practice of disposing of unconventional (shale) drilling wastewater by road spreading in regulations adopted in 2016. DEP regulations at 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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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. Legal qualification to be an offshore renewables lessee is similar to qualification to hold oil and gas leases. 585.106.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2024

This post is the first in a series of three that will address specific legal features of the rule. 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.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 25, 2021

Some believe this tying the consideration to “current” standards, as opposed to the regulator determination at the time the tank was closed, creates a Faustian bargain for the environmental professional, and will greatly limit the supremely valuable designation of HRECS. This new text only exacerbates a prior bad word choice. of this report.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Today, the Government of Canada announced that draft regulations prohibiting certain single-use plastics have been published for public comment. It is the Government’s intention to finalize these Regulations and bring the ban into force as quickly as possible and as early as late 2022 after reviewing and considering comments received.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

These collective efforts have resulted in improved “grades” by NGOs and the media in all sorts of categories. But I was alarmed to see one category of Bay health continue to decline. Just seeing it reminded me that concerted scientific, policy and legal effort can sometimes result in good things. Hooray for the Bay!

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

However, Commerce notes that most cryptographic libraries and modules themselves will likely not be impacted by this change because the mass market note (Note 3 to Category 5, Part 2 or the "Cryptography Note") specifically excludes items whose primary function is "information security.". c or 5D992.c Conclusion.

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 13, 2022

offices from the Environmental Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP are recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2022 Guide. The annual Guide once again recognized the Environmental Practice in the following categories: Dispute Resolutions > Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action – Defense: Toxic Tort.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Reporting will not begin until the Treasury adopts regulations, which the Act mandates must be done by January 1, 2022. Reporting companies formed after the adoption of the regulations will be required to report this information as they are filing for formation. Who must report?

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As directed by the CTA, FinCEN issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing regulations that would require reporting companies to disclose to FinCEN the identity and other information of every individual who is a beneficial owner and every individual who is a company applicant of the reporting company (Proposed Rule).

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Definitions and Categories. How the Agency resolves these questions in regulations critically impact what covered businesses need to do to steer clear of Agency enforcement actions in the years to come. Once the Agency takes a position on this in proposed regulations, it is likely to adhere to it going forward. Key Questions.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

sanctions regulations applicable to financial institutions without a physical presence in the United States." In 2019, First Bank’s regulator, the National Bank of Romania, identified potential sanctions violations involving a US dollar transaction that First Bank had processed for a shipment of timber from Romania to Syria.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The report builds on the existing science and best in category voluntary efforts to create a world wide definition of Net Zero, based on 5 principles and 10 standards to guide the future of Net Zero, and focused on holistic actions that should be taken by companies today. Accelerating the Road to Regulation.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The categories include: PFOA and/or PFOS manufacturers (including importers and importers of articles). What is the legal basis for designation of PFOS/PFOA? What parties are affected by the proposed rulemaking? The rulemaking list various manufacturers or businesses that may be impacted by the rule. PFOA and/or PFOS processors.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Reporting will not begin until the Treasury adopts regulations, which the Act mandates must be done by January 1, 2022. Reporting companies formed after the adoption of the regulations will be required to report this information as they are filing for formation. Who must report?

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