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California Wins Major Clean Air Act/Climate Change Case in D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

But that changed dramatically in 2006, after the California Air Resources Board adopted the world’s first regulatory limits on GHG emissions from motor vehicles. In 2006, President George W. Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking to invalidate the Biden EPA’s decision to reinstate California’s 2013 waiver.

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Judicial Deference to Agencies: A Timeline

Legal Planet

In the meantime, it’s illuminating to put the current dispute in the context of the last 80 years of judicial doctrine regarding deference to agencies on issues of law. Bumpers Amendment introduced in Senate, intended to eliminate judicial deference to agencies on questions of law. Skidmore v. Swift & Co. decided by Supreme Court.

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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Note: Miller Starr Regalia attorneys Ken Stahl and Matt Henderson represented intervenors YIMBY Law and People for Housing Orange County (a chapter of YIMBY Action) in the Olen litigation.) That year the City prepared an environmental impact report for its general plan update (2006 EIR), which included residential development at the Center.

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Losing Justice Hobbs, Western Water Expert and Valued Mentor

Legal Planet

But people across the Colorado legal community, the broader Western water community, and a far-flung network that includes Berkeley Law staff, faculty, and alumni. Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. Justice Hobbs’ connections with Berkeley Law run deep. He got his JD here in 1971. I was lucky enough to be one of them. .

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The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups

Circle of Blue

The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms. Because of reclamation law, former mine sites are now soccer fields or home to new manufacturing. .

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Texas Supreme Court Rules on Correction Deeds in a Case of First Impression

Energy & the Law

2006: the Bank executes a correction mineral deed attempting to change the fee mineral interest to a life estate. 2013: Broadway Bank, John, and the original grantees of the 2005 deed execute a second correction deed, again attempting to change the fee interest to a life estate. The dispute. John does not sign this instrument.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016.