Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Many of these companies are already undertaking some form of Scope 3 emissions accounting, and what’s more, SB 253 wouldn’t impose penalties on regulated businesses until 2030, giving the business world plenty of time to figure out how to more accurately measure and report this data. What do the bills do? What’s next?

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2021

For the last century, the Supreme Court has tried to operationalize the idea that a government regulation can be so burdensome that it amounts to a seizure of property. One, as the Court recognized in a prior case, is the common law of public and private nuisances — two legal doctrines notorious for their vagueness.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The report outlines a package of policies that could become the first lithium-ion US battery recycling regulation – including producer responsibility for battery recycling. Most policies recommended by the group fell under the safe and efficient reverse logistics category. Who were the members of the Advisory Group?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. The ACF includes four primary pillars, focusing on state and local public agency fleets, large commercial and federal fleets, drayage operations, and a continuation of the ACT rule requiring 100 percent zero-emissions truck sales by 2040.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

In a series of posts, I’ll be following the ongoing proceeding at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) charged with implementing this new policy. of the California Public Utilities Code with three major moves. There are, however, important questions regarding how the new rate structure will be designed and implemented.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

PA Bulletin - April 15, 2023 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 68 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the April 15 PA Bulletin - pages 2056 to 2124. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? All through its eNotice system.

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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.

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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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Capaccio

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The EPA’s PFAS Roadmap includes developing regulations to protect and preserve drinking water, as well as treating PFAS-contaminated water sources. Companiesin these categories discharging to surface water or to a publicly-owned WWTP may be requiredto sample industrial effluent and report results of PFAS. Moving Forward.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. A rough estimate from the Public Policy Institute of California found that if groundwater levels decline at the same rate as in the last drought, about 2,700 wells could go dry in 2021. Drought Monitor categories.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The agency also stated it is working with commercial sterilizers to curb their emissions and would soon propose a new rule for sterilizer emissions to better protect public health. Before joining UCS last year, she worked at the Center for Progressive Reform and the Center for Science and Public Interest.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Background On May 31, 2023, EPA released a final rule exempting two categories of PIPs created using genetic engineering from certain registration requirements under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and from the food or feed residue tolerance requirements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Because batteries can be hazardous if improperly handled, transporting them involves additional regulations and can constitute 40 to 60% of battery recycling costs. Regulators can also enact new waste categories specifically for batteries, which can make transporting used batteries to reuse or recycling centers safer and more cost-effective.

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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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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

(It’s worth noting that due to a lack of transparency and public reporting, this number is likely a large underestimate of total support.). 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. million for other categories of support to fossil fuels.

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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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Renewable + Law

JULY 17, 2020

872 and implemented the largest overhaul to FERC’s regulations affecting Qualifying Facilities (QFs) in more than a decade. 872 introduces new LEO regulations that require QFs to demonstrate commercial viability and a financial commitment to developing the project. 872 substantially changes the ground rules for developing QFs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. This change gives options to public fleets to meet their individual needs while still ensuring that their trucks transition to ZEVs on a feasible timeline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2022

Private utilities with multistate territories are accepted by state regulators. The proposed rules include a table suggesting 12 categories of measurable, valuable electric system reliability and economic benefits that utilities may use in discussions with states and use in their cost allocation decisions.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. 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.

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Environment Next

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In addition to announcing the initiation of new rulemakings for certain categories of industrial dischargers, the report provides a window into where the agency is focusing its attention for potential future clean water act regulations. Primary Clean Water Act regulations for landfill leachate date back to 2000.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Henry Hub is the national benchmark for wholesale gas prices (Source: US Energy Information Administration ).

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Capaccio

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Administrative Council on Toxics Use Reduction has voted to amend regulation 301 CMR 41: Toxic or Hazardous Substance List (TURA List) to add the Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Not Otherwise Listed (PFAS NOL) category. . Manufacture or process 25,000lb/year, or otherwise use 10,000lb/year, of PFAS NOL, as a category .

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

This divides them into three different categories: plastics, ferrous materials, and non-ferrous materials (also called black mass). This group consists of automotive and battery manufacturers, government agency representatives, and public interest groups.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Once such information is released, it becomes public and will remain so forever. Instead, confidentiality protections tend to extend to narrow categories of information, such as the location of a cultural resource. Tribes have a multitude of reasons to safeguard their knowledge. Agency Discretion. Download as PDF.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2024

Nearly two years and 24,000 public comments after its proposal, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its final climate disclosure rule last week, formally titled “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors.” This was a significant concession to the rule’s opponents.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 9, 2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed – by a 3-1 vote – a comprehensive new set of rules (the “ proposals ”) in an effort to enhance and standardize the climate-related disclosures provided by public companies. [1]

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And on Friday, December 17, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and New York Department of Public Service (DPS) Staff released the much-anticipated “whitepaper” to achieve Governor Hochul’s goal – New York’s 10 GW Distributed Solar Roadmap: Policy Options for Continued Growth in Distributed Solar (the “Roadmap”).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Both categories of analysis are essential to meet the clear and express requirements of NEPA; our study focuses on the second, which we term “climate impact analysis.” Fortunately, CEQ has already begun the process of updating its NEPA regulations , and reviewing its existing NEPA climate guidance. Read the full report here.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

2018 Year in Review: Public agencies prevailed in 65% of CEQA cases analyzed. This category includes issues such as mootness, statutes of limitations, waiver, and res judicata. Figure 2 ( right ) shows the distribution of cases heard among the six appellate districts as well as the public agency success in each district.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. These quotes were obtained from various reports, public statements and media interviews published online. Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping. Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. 2] CARB, Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons for the Proposed Amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation at EX-1 (Mar. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Jennifer Garlock.

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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

JUNE 2, 2022

The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories. Stronger steering by regulators and policymakers has the potential to close this gap.”. Investors—and the public—deserve stability and certainty. Make Your Voice Heard!

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