Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The paper discusses problems in confidentiality of sensitive information during tribal cultural resource protection, current confidentiality protections that tribes can leverage, and potential legislative solutions that can better minimize the harm of confidentiality breaches. Agency Discretion. Potential Legal and Administrative Solutions.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. To date, $10.5

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Smith Enviorment

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The reference to ‘‘interstate wetlands’’ as a stand-alone category of jurisdictional wetlands has been removed. Scope of North Carolina Legislation Limiting Wetlands Protection. It is possible that Session Law 2023-63 will be modified as a result, but that seems unlikely to happen before adjournment of the 2023 legislative session.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This legislation will provide critical transparency and accountability to ensure that corporations are meeting their climate goals and that we are protecting our planet for future generations.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is still awaiting funding to craft the regulations needed to implement the laws, though it has indicated it will begin the process soon. However, the existence of federal regulations on the same subject as a state law does not mean that state law is necessarily preempted. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping. If the new legislation is passed, the evaluation score of the Minesing Wetlands will be greatly diminished, and many wetlands, including the Mad River portion of the complex will not meet PSW status.”.

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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. Next Steps.

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Smith Enviorment

AUGUST 1, 2018

But in recent years, the General Assembly has tried to exercise greater control over some commissions by increasing the number of legislative appointees. Constitution’s requirement for executive, legislative and judicial powers to be entirely separate. Supreme Court ruled in the governor’s favor. Separation of powers. (1)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Wolf in July after he allowed legislation to become law without his signature that prohibited DEP from increasing conventional oil and gas well plugging bond rates for ten years that would have helped deter new well abandonments. Why The Assessment? DEP’s assessment was promised by Gov. Read more here. Read more here.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post covers the most significant legislation affecting state water quality protections: AQUACULTURE PERMITTING Replace the existing NPDES General Permit for aquaculture operations. A legislative directive to modify or replace a specific permit appears to cross a significant constitutional line. House Bill 600, Sec.

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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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Law of the Lands

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The physical human beings give notice to governments, creditors, and the Courts that they have relinquished and are separate from their non-physical legal persons and, therefore, are not responsible to follow government regulations, pay taxes, pay debts, etc. In an oft-cited case called Meads v. Meads , Associate Chief Justice J.D.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

Among the many programs enhanced or created by the legislation, a number relate to carbon sequestration and low-carbon transportation fuels. However, many details related to these provisions remain to be fleshed out through regulation. Among these are the following: Expansion of the 45Q tax credit.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Those two pieces of legislation had already begun to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by transitioning more base power generation from coal to natural gas (which produces lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, although not emission-free) and greatly increased development of solar and wind generation facilities.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 18, 2016

This is Part II of our TSCA update following the recent changes to the TSCA legislation. 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). On June 29, 2016, the U.S.

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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. Both prime sponsors of the legislation making the designation came from Lycoming County as a result-- Sen. It's just simply a category into which they put species that are at risk,” said Dr. Petokas. “So

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

” Although the concept of holding patients harmless from unanticipated out-of-network medical bills became a national policy priority with bipartisan interest in 2019, it took nearly two years for comprehensive surprise billing reform legislation to get across the finish line. 133, §§ 101–118 (2020).]]

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sponsors should ensure that they are able to submit patient-level data for any RWD analyzed as part of a clinical study included in a marketing application when required by regulations for new drug applications or biologic license applications.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

In a series of conversations with community members, engineers, utility staff, and legislative aides, Green and her colleagues learned that EGLE and its predecessor agency had been marketing the SRFs to communities as a “program of last resort,” she said. It’s a problem the proposed legislation would allow EGLE to address. Circle Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

With many new leaders taking charge – EPA administrators, governors, legislators, and within environmental organizations – we have an opportunity to prove that restoring clean water is possible. CBF scientists compile and examine the best available data and information for 13 indicators in three categories: pollution, habitat, and fisheries.

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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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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. Clean Water Action v. Jackson Township Council , No. 16-1-01001-5 (Wash.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Legislation has been introduced in the Senate and House of Representatives calling attention to worker fatalities from extreme heat and seeking to erect statutory protections, and members of the Senate have written to the Department of Labor encouraging the agency to adopt heat protections modeled on that legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

He also repeatedly made the point in recounting the history of conventional drilling that drillers took no action to properly plug or case their oil and gas wells to protect groundwater and prevent methane migration, unless there was a law and regulations making them do it. And the New Testament essentially went through perhaps three phases.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When she announced the legislation in March , Rep. Read more here ] “Upon the conclusion of the grand jury’s two-year investigation in 2020, several legislative recommendations were made that would strengthen protections for the environment and the citizens of our Commonwealth. Read more here. ]

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

Federal agencies could prepare programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS’s) for categories of CCS projects, for example, which would allow much shorter and faster environmental assessments on a project-specific basis. CEQ also suggests that it is considering issuing CCUS-specific NEPA guidance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

One notable example is in Michigan, where utilities are phasing out coal plants and momentum is building for legislation that would support an equitable clean energy transition. Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations. Michiganders must keep the pressure on state legislators to seize the opportunity before them.

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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. They have yet to attract sufficient legislative support. The city set a December 31, 2022 deadline for the water shut off. . That seems certain to change. There’s a reason for that.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Legislative Action -- House Committee Holds Hearing On Increasing Safety Setback Zones: On October 30 the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held its first-ever hearing on the health and environmental impacts of the shale gas industry and legislation increasing safety zone setbacks around gas infrastructure.

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2021

In its closing days, the Trump Administration issued a rule designed to tilt EPA’s cost-benefit analysis of air pollution regulations in favor of industry. The Trump rule contained an industry wish list of provisions, all of them designed to make regulation more difficult. Co-benefits are the beneficial side effects of a regulation.

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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. In respect of enforcement, governmental matters and legislative reform, we consider the following topics: Change on the horizon in the UK enforcement sphere. million for misleading its regulator, the FRC.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources Corporation President and CEO Nick Deiuliis announced a first-of-its-kind statement of mutual interests that will further heighten the company’s operational disclosures in collaboration with state environmental regulators and the public. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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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. Kassab , 312 A.2d 2d 86, 94 (Pa.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As noted in a prior advisory , the disruption caused by this phenomenon led lawmakers and regulators to consider whether a legislative or regulatory response would be prudent.]]. The second category of proposed amendments would lower the threshold for reporting as a large private equity adviser from $2 billion to $1.5

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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

While progressives aim to reinvigorate the anti-monopoly origins of antitrust, some Republicans are weaponizing antitrust in service of their narrative and legislative anti-ESG campaigns. The financial institution climate alliances are, again, unlikely to fit these categories. and the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C.

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