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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2002 SB1078. 2016 SB 32. That would be even more obvious if the timeline included the host of less notable, but still significant, laws passed during the same time period. 2006 AB 32.

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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 decision came in the case of Chevron U.S.A., County of Monterey.

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Michael A. Braymer Appointed DEP Chief Counsel

PA Environment Daily

Braymer started his Commonwealth Career as a summer law school intern with the Department of Environmental Protection in the summers of 2000 and 2001. He was promoted to Supervisory Counsel in 2016, and then to Regional Counsel of the Northwest Regional office in January, 2023. Click Here to see DEP’s entire Executive Staff.

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Landowners Vanquished by the Discovery Rule

Energy & the Law

The events: 2002 and 2004: Mustafa and Lahijani purchase land on which the Bash #1 well is located. 2002 : Americo acquires the 1937-era oil and gas lease on the land. March 2016: Landowners visit the property for the first time since 2010 and noticed a “white area” around the saltwater tanks near the Bash #1.

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Derivatives: ISDA Announces 2016 New York Law Variation Margin Credit Support Annex

The Energy Law Blog

On April 14, 2016, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ISDA ) announced the 2016 ISDA Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin for use with New York law transactions (the 2016 CSA ). Accordingly, the 2016 CSA provisions have been uniformly revised to account for only variation margin matters.

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The 5th International Conference on Regional Climate

Real Climate

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002).

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German Atomic Energy Act Amendment Illegal - Case Comment BVerfG 1 BvR 1550/19

Energy and Climate Law

On 6 December 2016 the court largely rejected their main arguments against German`s nuclear phase out and the Atomic Energy Act ( BVerfG 1 BvR 2821/11, 1 BvR 321/12, 1 BvR 1456/12 ). The point is that the law of 2018 obliges Vattenfall effectively to do `whatever it can´ to sell those volumes on the market (effectively to Eon).