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Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process. Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime.
CEQA Developments
MAY 2, 2023
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. 791a et seq.).
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Greenbuilding Law
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
The report builds on the existing science and best in category voluntary efforts to create a world wide definition of Net Zero, based on 5 principles and 10 standards to guide the future of Net Zero, and focused on holistic actions that should be taken by companies today.
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. All three of Smith’s claims will now proceed to what may the be first full climate tort claim in a common law jurisdiction.
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
City of Turlock (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th Part 3 of 4), posted 12/1/21 on SLoG Law Blog (noting agency leaders, such as a city council, “are elected officials who inevitably pay attention to politics even when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity (hearing a CEQA appeal)”.) Resources Code,] § 21168.5.)
CEQA Developments
OCTOBER 21, 2021
City of Lodi (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th Where an agency adopts an administrative appeal process, the common law exhaustion rule applies in CEQA cases and the remedy’s scope is defined by the specific jurisdiction’s relevant and available local procedures. City and County of San Francisco (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th
ESA
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. degrees Celsius. Biden EPA move to repeal Trump WOTUS rule.
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