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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

Last week, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an initiative measure that would have imposed severe restrictions on oil and gas development in Monterey County is preempted by state law and therefore invalid. The California Court of Appeal agreed in a 2021 decision. The decision came in the case of Chevron U.S.A.,

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

Despite the OEB review and penalty, complaints to the OEB related to meter reading have more than doubled: from 42 in 2021, to 87 in 2023. TOP SKILLS CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Getting in trouble with the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) Enbridge was fined $250,000 in 2022 for failing to meet meter reading standards and inaccurately charging consumers.

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SEC Approves PCAOB Rule Under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act

Arnold Porter

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, mandates that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspect registered public accounting firms in both the United States and in foreign jurisdictions, and investigate potential standards violations committed by registered public accounting firms and their associated persons.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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A personal mission: one scientist’s search for a theory of everything

Physics World

Jesper Grimstrup is a Danish theoretical physicist who received his PhD in 2002. Grimstrup does away with the question of whether he is chasing ghosts in little more than a sentence, arguing that the laws of nature seem to have a minimal length scale and that settles the case. 2021 Self-published £23.99pb 276pp.

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Prop 65 Bounty Hunters Barred from Filing Acrylamide Lawsuits Based on First Amendment

Arnold Porter

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added acrylamide to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens in 1990, but acrylamide was not detected in foods until 2002. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved. The preliminary injunction was issued in California Chamber of Commerce v.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

Healey Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Toyota Total Penalties $1,577,928,188 (June 10, 2021) Number of Records 42 Photo Gallery Image Toyota protest for dismissed workers photo Lennon Ying-Dah Wong Read More Image Toyota no.1 China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5 Kobe Steel, Toyota hit with U.S.