Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

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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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

FDA’s decision to issue this investigator-specific guidance follows publication of a draft sponsor-specific safety reporting guidance in June 2021, and is part of an effort to ultimately replace the older guidance documents with role-specific guidance. 2021) (RWE Draft Guidance). 2021) (Registry Draft Guidance).

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

On June 30, 2021, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued an opinion redefining the nature of available damages and the “actual, statutorily permitted role of the jury in Act 312 remediation lawsuits.” 6/30/2021); — So. Tackling this problem, the Louisiana Legislature in 2006 enacted La. State of Louisiana v. 2020-00685 (La.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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Acoel

AUGUST 19, 2021

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Jeff Porter. The panel’s legal gymnastics to reach this conclusion could be the basis for an entire law school seminar. In a classic case of “with friends like these,” the panel then ruled against the Sacketts. One thing seems certain.

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Renewable + Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The California ISO held its final Summer 2021 Readiness Update call on September 24. As reported on the call, the California ISO managed to get through summer 2021 without any load-shedding events, in contrast to last summer, when load-shedding events occurred on two days in August.

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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. Endnotes. [1] at 150-51. [5]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

A recent judgment by the Court of Rotterdam[[N: Shell and others v Dutch Public Prosecution Service , Rotterdam District Court Judgment of 28 January, 2021, ECLI:NL:RBROT:2021:527.]] © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved. Rotterdam District Court Judgment. Shell appealed the magistrate's decision.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 24, 2021

On June 21, 2021, the US Supreme Court decided Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., While the Opinion offers basic answers to complicated securities law issues, in remanding the case for further proceedings, it also leaves key questions unresolved. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved. Petitioners) v.

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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

Grimstrup does away with the question of whether he is chasing ghosts in little more than a sentence, arguing that the laws of nature seem to have a minimal length scale and that settles the case. 2021 Self-published £23.99pb 276pp. It’s an untypical book for the non-fiction genre. Grimstrup does not tell his story chronologically.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated 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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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

On June 30, 2021, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued an opinion redefining the nature of available damages and the “actual, statutorily permitted role of the jury in Act 312 remediation lawsuits.” 6/30/2021); — So. Tackling this problem, the Louisiana Legislature in 2006 enacted La. State of Louisiana v. 2020-00685 (La.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Posted on October 6, 2021 by John M. Note that the court of appeals correctly cited current Rule 26(b)(1) in the second sentence, but then cites to pre-December 1, 2015 case law and even cites a 2011 decision that quotes the 2000 version of Rule 26(b)(1): This court recognizes broad and liberal treatment of the federal discovery rules.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 10, 2023

3) affirmed the Alameda County Superior Court’s judgments denying writ petitions in three partially consolidated CEQA actions challenging the 2021 project/program EIR for the Comprehensive Parnassus Heights Plan. Board of Trustees of California State University (2006) 39 Cal.4th Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium, LLC, et al v.

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Vermont Law

MAY 11, 2020

However, this rate of growth is in question with the significant market driver of residential renewable energy, the Investment Tax Credit, posed to drop again in 2021 before being phased out altogether. In 2006, Congress, seeking to increase renewable generation on the U.S. The ITC drops to 26% in 2020, then to 22% in 2021.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Noting the vulnerability of the municipality as a coastal community, the Council of State ordered the French government in 2021 to “take all the measures necessary” to bend the curve of GHG emissions to meet climate goals, including a 40% reduction by 2030. Building on corporate accountability cases worldwide.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

19-0459, 2021 WL 936175 (Tex. In 2006, however, BlueStone acquired the lease and became responsible for paying royalties on production thereunder. Ultimately, based on general principles of contract law, the language in an agreement is crucially important, and the Court will, when possible, follow the plain language of the contract.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

19-0459, 2021 WL 936175 (Tex. In 2006, however, BlueStone acquired the lease and became responsible for paying royalties on production thereunder. Ultimately, based on general principles of contract law, the language in an agreement is crucially important, and the Court will, when possible, follow the plain language of the contract.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. 109, quoting R v Rimmington [2005] UKHL 63, [2006] 1 AC 459. Finally, the Court considered causation.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

See 2021 WL 1432222 (Tex. Nearly a hundred years later, in 2006, the mineral estate of the northwest tract was owned by the Richey family and was leased to Mr. Ellison d/b/a Ellison Lease Operating, whereas the mineral estate of the southeast tract was owned by the Farmar family and was leased to Samson.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

See 2021 WL 1432222 (Tex. Nearly a hundred years later, in 2006, the mineral estate of the northwest tract was owned by the Richey family and was leased to Mr. Ellison d/b/a Ellison Lease Operating, whereas the mineral estate of the southeast tract was owned by the Farmar family and was leased to Samson.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2021, the Biden administration and Congress responded to the deficit. 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. A regular tug-of-war ensued.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

19-0459, 2021 WL 936175 (Tex. In 2006, however, BlueStone acquired the lease and became responsible for paying royalties on production thereunder. Ultimately, based on general principles of contract law, the language in an agreement is crucially important, and the Court will, when possible, follow the plain language of the contract.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On September 30, 2021, the federal court in the Southern District of New York dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) process for demonstrating that a food substance is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS).[[N: Sept 30, 2021).]] He is not admitted to the practice of law. Price et al , No. 18,938 (Apr.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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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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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 In August 2021, a World Bank report stated that climate change is accelerating the global water crisis, and the scarcity of water is contributing to 10% of the increase in global migration. Their rights are only covered under human rights law.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To add insult to injury, as the employer would have violated their employment contracts in a very serious way, those employees would, by law, also be in a position to walk free from any non-competes or non-solicitation clauses to which they were previously subject. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Energy Transfer has told neighbors to the facility since then information related to the explosion is confidential under Act 156 of 2006 the state Public Utility Confidential Security Information and Disclosure Protection Act and DEP should not be releasing copies of its inspection reports on the facility. the same day. Read more here.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To add insult to injury, as the employer would have violated their employment contracts in a very serious way, those employees would, by law, also be able to walk free from any non-competes or non-solicitation clauses to which they were previously subject. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 11, 2021

In a lengthy opinion filed April 8, and ordered published on May 7, 2021, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment rejecting a number of CEQA challenges to the California State Land Commission’s (Lands Commission) supplemental EIR for and related approval of a lease modification to facilitate a desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

State Actions Affecting California Water Resources California’s Drought Emergency Orders In March 2023, Governor Newsom issued an executive order (Order) that lifted several components of Governor Newsom’s 2021 drought emergency orders.

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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. 2006 WL 1851481, at *1 (Del. 27, 2006).]]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Legislators have known since 2006 that the AML Program needed to be reauthorized by Sept. 30, 2021, but have declined to prioritize abandoned mine cleanup despite numerous bills to reauthorize the program in recent years. We’ve known about this expiration date since 2006. 27-28 [Posted: October 2, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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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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