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On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. The initial plan was approved in 2008 , with the second in 2013 , and the most recent iteration in 2017.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

On October 20, 2017, Bouchard Transportation’s ATB BUSTER BOUCHARD/B. Bouchard, III; Brendan Bouchard; and Kevin Donohue’s reckless disregard for the law and callous indifference for seamen’s rights under the SPA and egregious conduct Click here for a copy of the OSHA press release , along with a copy of the SPA. 3d 424 , 444 (7th Cir.

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The Court’s majority acknowledged such actions would contravene FERC’s “sole jurisdiction” over licensing process disputes and be preempted under longstanding federal law. (18 North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).).

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5th , a case mainly focused on water law but which also has some significant CEQA implications. The trial court also cited case law and section 3733 of title 23 of the California Code of Regulations to support its ruling that the permits were entirely exempt from CEQA irrespective of the statute’s only reference to chapter 3.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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constitutive law. In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. passed local law. In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. passed local law. A 2017 compact between the Commonwealth and a Maori tribe, The Whanganui River Claims Settlement Act. Earth Law Center. Pittsburgh followed in 2010, declaring.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Businesses, financers and governments should be held accountable and laws must be put into place to prevent their constant climate-wrecking activities. Reference list: (1) Steiger Carlos (2006), Modern Beef Production in Brazil and Argentina, Vol. 3) Birss Moria (2017) Criminalising environmental activism pages 315-322. (4)

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DWR’s efforts in this regard took place from 2001 to 2006, involving “five federal agencies, five state agencies, seven local government entities, five Native American tribes, four local water agencies, and 13 nongovernmental organizations,” with three years of hearings and two years of negotiations. 2017) 878 F.3d 2017) 878 F.3d

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After it applied to Huntington Beach to obtain the necessary land use approvals for the plant and water delivery system, the City certified an EIR in 2005 and granted the project’s conditional use permit and coastal development permit in 2006, but the project did not proceed at that time. The Lands Commission’s 2017 Supplemental EIR.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

30:29, in 2006 to provide a procedure for ensuring that amounts awarded to remediate environmental damage are actually spent on remediation. The Louisiana Legislature passed “Act 312,” La. 30:29(C)(5). 30:29(C)(5).

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MAY 11, 2020

Solar energy is currently the third-largest renewable energy source, surpassing biomass in 2017. [4]. In 2006, Congress, seeking to increase renewable generation on the U.S. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Utility-scale solar is expected to grow by 10% in 2019 and an additional 17% in 2020. [3]. appeared first on.

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29, 2021); Press Release, SAP Resolves Allegations of Export Control Law Violations with $3.29 From 2010 to 2017, SAP Partners in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany and Malaysia sold software licenses and other services to certain overseas companies, including some that were controlled Iranian companies. 29, 2021).]]

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N: FDA’s Approach to the GRAS Provision: A History of Processes (April 2006. Under the GRAS Rule, then, manufacturers have the same option they would have in the absence of any rule: “to act without notifying FDA and assume the risk of enforcement if FDA later determines that they violated the law.”[[N: 18,938 (Apr.

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3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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MARCH 21, 2024

This led to an unfair distribution of funds until the FTA’s tribal transit program was implemented in 2006 with a direct funding and application route to the federal government. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 and was the most recent time Congress made significant changes to transit funding and policy.

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Constrained by limited funding (which comes from both utility tariffs and a separate City “Surcharge Fund”), by 2016, it had completed 406 miles of undergrounding, but still had 1,000 miles of overhead lines to convert, and it set a goal of 15 miles per year in its 2017 Utilities Undergrounding Program Master Plan.

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VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal Law 360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:26 Thursday, September 14, 2023 Read more Matthew Perlman Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that Volkswagen should not have to pay a €5 million ($5.3

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VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

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JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output.

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

Indeed, this machine provided a vital glimpse of the fundamental laws of the universe, supplying some of the first evidence that particles and their antiparticle counterparts can behave differently. Making strides and breaking laws. Developed under the auspices of UNESCO, SESAME was officially opened in 2017, after an upgrade to a 2.5

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MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. That lawsuit alleges that API, ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, which owns an oil refinery in the state, violated state consumer protection laws by misleading Minnesotans about the role fossil fuels play in causing the climate crisis.

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They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. pounds in 2006.

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Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

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Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

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Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

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