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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2006 AB 32. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles.

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American College of Governance Counsel Elects Greenberg to 2021 Class of Fellows

Arnold Porter

Arnold & Porter senior counsel Joel Greenberg was elected as a 2021 Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel, the organization for leading corporate governance lawyers from the US and Canada. Greenberg is one of 14 new Fellows in its 2021 class of distinguished leading practitioners.

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Apply Now For Schuylkill River Restoration Fund Grants, Deadline Feb. 15

PA Environment Daily

The Schuylkill River Restoration Fund provides grants to government agencies and nonprofit organizations for projects that improve the quality of water in the watershed. Since being established in 2006, the fund has distributed more than $4.6 The deadline is February 15.

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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The Stream, January 26, 2022: U.S. Supreme Court Will Consider Limiting Wetlands Legislation

Circle of Blue

In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. In 2006, the Court defined a wetland as any body of water which has a “significant nexus” to a waterway. 139 CONCEALED DEATHS.

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MP committee fails to establish timelines for action on toxic chemicals

Enviromental Defense

The government introduced the bill first in the Senate, where it passed last Spring. For example, PBDE neurotoxic flame retardants used in consumer products were assessed as toxic in 2006 but the draft regulations restricting PBDEs in products were only published last year, a delay of 16 years.

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Supreme Court Curtails Federal Wetlands Protections; Developers Still Must Consider State and Local Wetlands Laws

Law and Environment

715 (2006), which interpreted covered “waters” in the CWA to include “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water forming geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes.” (Internal quotation marks and bracket omitted.) United States , 547 U.S.

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