Greenbuilding Law

MAY 30, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B The adopted constitutional law adds an express reference to the protection of the environment and animals, by amending Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. In Neubauer, et al.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 24, 2021

May 24, 2021) , attempting to clarify which settlements with the United States or a state trigger a right to settling-party contribution under section 113(f)(3)(B) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. On Monday, the Supreme Court decided Territory of Guam v. United States , No.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons were recycled, which is roughly the same amount that was recycled in 2004-- 5.14 million tons in 2021. million tons in 2021 The overall amount of waste being disposed in the state has increased 9.3 percent between 2015 to 2021-- 21.4 million tons to 15.6

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

We must apply the laws that the Legislature has written to the facts in the record. Factual and Procedural Background UC campuses are required by law to periodically adopt LRDPs to guide their decisions on land and infrastructure development. Our task is limited.

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Physics World

MAY 5, 2021

So asks Will Smith’s Detective Del Spooner of the artificial being Sonny, in a memorable scene from the 2004 film I, Robot. Zerilli’s background in law is evident throughout, with many legal processes described in excruciating detail. 2021 MIT Press $40hb 232pp. “Can a robot write a symphony? The post Friend or foe?

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2021) 74 Cal.App.5th The Downtown Specific Plan was adopted in 2004, and supported by a certified EIR; it was later amended in 2009 at which time the City evaluated those changes in a subsequent EIR (SEIR). Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

On June 4, 2021, the European Commission (EC) published the long-awaited final version of the new Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs) for personal data transfers outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), annexed to Implementing Decision 2021/914 (Implementing Decision).

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Finally, the Strategy considers how competition law enforcement can help address affordability concerns. During 2021, the Commission began to implement the Strategy by introducing new initiatives addressing the areas identified above. Interested parties were invited to share their views via a questionnaire until 30 July 2021.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Comply with laws, regulations, and other environmentally-orientated requirements. Official revisions were released in 2004 and 2015. the sustainability market is projected to reach $150 billion in sales by 2021, with 88% of consumers wanting to make a difference. Adopt processes to continually improve on the above.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Under compulsion of State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) orders to cease and remediate its decades-long overuse of other water sources (including the Carmel River system and Seaside Basin), ultimately by the end of 2021, Cal-Am began pursuing its Water Supply Project in 2012. City of Los Angeles (2004) 126 Cal.App.4th

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

In 2020, DOH examined cancer incidence data in a four-county area in Southwest Pennsylvania (Washington, Fayette, Greene and Westmoreland). Childhood cancer rates, as well as overall cancer rates, were mostly similar to or lower than the rest of state rates for all the three time periods examined.” 27 Released 1.1

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In spring 2021, the Academy established a Museum Innovation Fund (MIF) that provides seed grants to Drexel faculty and students who develop prototypes of new museum experiences. The Environmental Collaboratory will employ the two institutions’ expertise in environmental science, law, health, policy, humanities and engineering.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Join PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, the Pennsylvania Resources Council and other waste experts for a September 21 webinar on their plan to reduce waste, improve recycling efforts and bring Pennsylvania’s antiquated recycling laws into the 21st Century. percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons to 15.6

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

20, 2021) ( [link] ). ]]. 4, 2021) ( [link] ). ]]. N: Men's Health, History of Stress (June 2, 2004) ( [link] ); Baqutayon, supra. ]] Making an effort to adopt positive, effective strategies is one way to help avoid an approach that is harmful. ABA Survey: Lawyers Are Stressed Out, Above the Law (Aug. N: Black, N.,

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. City of San Diego (2021) Cal.App.5th.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

But at least under Delaware law, the WeWork decision expanded the applicability of a test that was originally intended for evaluating privilege in the context of employer-employee disputes where the employee uses a work email address for communicating with his or her personal attorney. 2004); MobileMedia Ideas LLC v. Apple Inc. ,

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest Post by Sheela Turbek , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University Imagine your favorite crime drama, something along the lines of Law and Order or CSI. Suddenly, ten years later, skeletal remains are uncovered in a marshy drainage. Kerry, R.G.,

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

Flush with Cash, State Lawmakers Consider Water Risks — Water is poised for prominence this year in state law and policy. The Coalition to prevent Chemical Disasters recorded 188 chemical accidents in 2022, and 177 in 2021. This number is even higher when accidents cataloged by nonprofit watchdogs are included.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Total Penalties $310,567,870 (April 8, 2021) Number of Records 23 Photo Gallery Image British American Tobacco Lucky Strike Cigarettes photo Benmooe Read More Other Key Sources Business & Human Rights Resource Center profile of British American Tobacco.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These violations are the most frequent committed by unconventional shale gas operators, according to DEP’s 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual report , which reported 196 NOVs for failing to report or correct casing and cementing violations in 2021 alone. Manahan 103HC (2021) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Ridgebury Twp.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 28, 2023

A study investigating how much education affects voting rates from 1950 to 2004 found that this positive correlation has increased since 1980. When we see a decline in union membership, such as when right-to-work laws result in limited union participation, a coinciding reduction in voter turnout can also be observed.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2023

2023 is the 20th anniversary of the drilling of the first shale gas well in Pennsylvania that was also the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. The report makes recommendations on how to improve enforcement of state laws, in particular to deal with the most frequent environmental violation-- routinely abandoning wells without plugging them.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Those obligations flow from current interpretations of both the federal securities laws and fiduciary duties of loyalty and care rooted in state law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004). The fine was $30 million. Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

The Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS), which would be updated under the Governor’s PRESS plan, is a 2004 Pennsylvania law requiring electricity suppliers to include specific percentages of renewable energy in their supply, in turn creating increased demand for renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

And if a company that has a disaster like the Norfolk Southern derailment, you can rest assured that we will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law. And resources to plug these wells, or even find them, had been scant – prior to the IIJA passed by Congress and signed by President Biden in 2021.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S.

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