Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Cultural rights include the right to freedom for scientific research and creative activity, and the right to participate in cultural life. World Heritage cities such as Venice, Italy, and Hoi An, Vietnam, are threatened.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2022

It was only after the 2003 Northeast blackout that federal law required reliability standards to be mandatory and carry inescapable penalties. For much of the 120-year history of electric power companies, regional reliability standards and coordinated operations have been voluntary.

Electricity

Energy & the Law

JULY 25, 2022

In 2003 the Holcomb’s and Tom and Trudy Anderson signed a farm and ranch sale contract in which the Anderson’s were to acquire surface rights only in six tracts of a ranch and Holcomb’s were to reserve the minerals. The 2003 GWD conveyed the surface only. Trudy did not execute the correction deed because she had passed away.

2003

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

Renwand will receive the 2024 Pennsylvania Bar Association Environmental and Energy Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award during the Environmental Law Forum , April 10, at the Hilton Harrisburg. Judge Renwand served on the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board from 1995 until his retirement in February 2003.

Law

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Ensure that new statutory protection for current Greenbelt lands are not undermined by having to reopen the Greenbelt Act, 2003 every time new land is added. Continuously expand the Greenbelt to prevent GTHA sprawl from “leapfrogging” into land beyond its current boundaries.

2003

Physics World

MAY 31, 2022

As the trio points out, a similar idea had already been put forward by Oliver Zahn and Matias Zaldarriaga back in 2003. These observables include all distance ratios, CMB temperature anisotropies and CMB polarization.

2003

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

PAEP presents these awards to Pennsylvanians who made unique and creative contributions to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. The awards were presented at the PAEP annual conference in State College.

2001

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2021

David Zimmerman (R-Lancaster) introduced House Bill 1755 which would take away all Department of Environmental Protection permit application fees collected by the agency and deposit them into the General Fund rather than into the accounts now set up in law to pay for specific environmental protection programs.

Environmental Protection

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The report also pitched liquid manure to the top of the list of causes of the harmful algal blooms that have inundated the big lake every summer since 2003. A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based Department of Agriculture. They are not a solution for dissolved phosphorus.”.

2020

BCM Environmental Land Law

MARCH 5, 2021

Conservation Law Foundation ( CLF ) argues that the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) has not updated their solid waste management plan since 2003 although laws require updates every six years to keep up with the evolution of practices, technology, and alternatives to land-filling.

Waste

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 3, 2022

Last Monday the NFL announced at the owners meeting that it had approved adjustments to the Rooney Rule, first adopted in 2003, “to enhance opportunities for people of color and women for nearly all league and team jobs.”. It strikes us that the response to inequality should be as easy as “treat others the way they want to be treated” (.

2003

The Energy Law

JULY 10, 2008

Under existing Louisiana law, a facility is exempt from air permitting requirements if its potential emissions are: (1) less than 5 tpy (tons per year) for each regulated air pollutant; (2) less than 15 tpy for all regulated pollutants combined; and (3) less than the minimum emission rate for each toxic air pollutant listed in LAC 33:III.5112,

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2023

DCNR recently revised its ATV trail policy, which lifted the moratorium on new trails that had been in place since 2003. Through collaborations with public and private partners, the pilot aims to offer long-distance riding opportunities and contribute to local economies, while maintaining the many uses and values of the state forest system.

2023

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Pritzker , 2021 IL 12687 (2021), the Illinois Supreme Court determined the doctrine of laches applies to an action brought by Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman challenging the constitutionality of $16 billion ($14 billion outstanding at the time of the Complaint) of the state’s general obligation bonds issued in 2003 and 2017.

2003

The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

In 2003, the Louisiana Supreme Court rendered its landmark decision in Corbello, et al. Those allegations form the basis of alleged violations of Chapter 4 of the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act: the Louisiana Water Control Law, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2071 et seq. Iowa Production, et al.

2026

MGKF Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

22-2003 (Jan. In In re LTL Management, LLC , No. 30, 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit had occasion to consider whether an entity that was created solely to house liabilities and file for bankruptcy could, in fact, file for bankruptcy where another entity was contractually obligated to pay those liabilities.

2003

Acoel

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Coplan Gandalf’s Staff tree, Styx Valley Tall Trees Reserve, Tasmania (photo by author) A year ago I retired from the active practice and teaching of environmental law to pursue a lifelong dream of sailing a small boat around the world. Posted on February 9, 2023 by Karl S. This old growth forest was slated to be logged for paper mills.

2003

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Tyler 2003, pet. 2003, no pet.), In recent years, appellate decisions in Castle Tex. Long Trusts , 134 S.W.3d 3d 267 (Tex. denied), IP Petroleum Co., Wevanco Energy, L.L.C. , 3d 888 (Tex. Houston [1st Dist.] Fagadau Energy Corp. , 3d 147 (Tex. Eastland 2001, pet. denied), and Abraxas Petroleum Corp.

2003

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the same time, he pointed out DEP has never used taxpayer money to plug an unconventional shale gas well since drilling began in 2003. However, he was limited to talking about unconventional shale gas wells at the moment because of a lawsuit filed by environmental groups over conventional oil and gas well plugging bonds. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Law of the Lands

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Historically, highways (not just “highways” in the sense of a major paved road but also sideroads and concession roads, gravel or paved) could be established in a number of ways, including by passage of a municipal by-law or by operation of the common law doctrine of “dedication and acceptance”. Some roads were never actually created.

Law

The Energy Law

APRIL 16, 2019

241 (2003). In addition to accessing these reports in the Real Property Probate and Trust Journal, the Legal Opinion Resource Center of the ABA Business Law Section contains these and many other opinion reports and resources. The next report was the comprehensive The Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012 published at 47 Real Prop.

2012

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It has only been since 1984, when the first more comprehensive Oil and Gas Act was signed into law, that conventional operators began to be regulated in any meaningful way to prevent pollution. Unconventional shale gas well drilling started in 2003 in Pennsylvania, resulting in 14,294 wells drilled. [In

2003

The Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2020

UNOCAL appealed to the Fifth Circuit, arguing, inter alia , that Sojitz’s claim for equitable subrogation failed as a matter of law because the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”) does not grant BSEE a civil claim for monetary damages based on a party’s failure to perform decommissioning to which Sojitz could subrogate.

2020

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2022

Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement By Cynthia Cane , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 9, 2022 Fred Tuman’s journey to the environmentalism movement was unorthodox, to say the least.

2003

The Energy Law

APRIL 5, 2017

Commencing April 1, 2017, those lenders and their counsel may also have to consult the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (the “Convention”). [1] The Convention was finally promulgated in 2003 but did not become effective until April 1, 2017. [2]

Law

Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. US legislators may follow the lead of Stuttgart, Germany, where exemplary city-greening zoning laws have greatly reduced urban pollution.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort. The US government is still using the 3% discount rate it calculated in 2003 based on older data on real market interest rates, which used to be much higher). The cost, currently set by the US government at US$51 per metric tonne, plays a pivotal role in determining policy.

Sea Level

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

By David Jennings, 1L Student, Vermont Law School. In 2003, satisfied that the populations had sufficiently recovered, USFWS initiated procedures to delist wolves from the ESA. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. After hundreds of years of persecution in the United States, in 1978 the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Conservation

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The mere fact that the in-house lawyers were employed by a subsidiary of a company established in the Netherlands and performed activities ultimately in the interests of the head office in the Netherlands was insufficient to justify Dutch law on the charter being applicable. 5) {2003} EWCA Civ 474.]] Significance.

2019

The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

In 2003, the Louisiana Supreme Court rendered its landmark decision in Corbello, et al. Those allegations form the basis of alleged violations of Chapter 4 of the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act: the Louisiana Water Control Law, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2071 et seq. Iowa Production, et al.

2026

CEQA Developments

JULY 7, 2022

Developer Icon proposed a mixed-use residential and commercial development on a 9-acre infill site in Panorama City occupied by three commercial buildings (a Montgomery Ward, restaurant, and auto repair shop) that have been vacant since 2003. For more information, visit www.msrlegal.com.

2017

Law of the Lands

MAY 24, 2018

Neighbours P moved into the other house in 2003. The houses are just over 14 feet apart, and a shared driveway runs between the houses. Neighbour E had lived in the one house since 1980.

2003

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

279, 293 (2003). Dave Jennings is a 2L at Vermont Law School interested in environmental law and policy, particularly wildlife conservation and ecosystem management. . Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Fish and Fishery Resources of the Klamath River Basin. Retrieved from. Holly Doremus and A. 30 Ecology L.Q.

Endangered Species Act

The Energy Law

APRIL 17, 2008

creates a split among Louisiana courts, for in 2003, the Third Circuit, considering similar facts, held that, though the provision of compressor fuel constituted a taxable transaction, because there was neither a sales price nor value for the compressor fuel, the Department could not recover any tax.

2003

Greenbuilding Law

MAY 7, 2023

Despite that the Clean Diamond Trade Act, signed into law on July 29, 2003, prohibits the “importation into, or exportation from, the U.S. The diamond industry is suggested to be opaque and lacking transparency, which can make it difficult for consumers to know whether their jewelry has been ethically sourced.

2003

The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

By way of background, the lessor royalty owners originally entered into a form lease agreement in 2003; the lease provided that royalty payments were based on “the market value at the well.” Key Takeaway The Court’s holdings in BlueStone are particularly instructive for lessees and lessors entering into oil and gas agreements.

2019

The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

By way of background, the lessor royalty owners originally entered into a form lease agreement in 2003; the lease provided that royalty payments were based on “the market value at the well.” Key Takeaway The Court’s holdings in BlueStone are particularly instructive for lessees and lessors entering into oil and gas agreements.

2019