PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27. Read more here.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

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Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability; Lead Author of WP 1 T1.2 For heat, a focus on districts is logical due to the fact that transportation of heat over longer distances results in energy-losses (depending on various factors; Werner 2006, 10 ) and thus inefficiencies.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

He played a key role in modernizing Pennsylvania’s regulation of mining operations, adoption of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and served as the first Director of the federal Office of Surface Mining. If there is a father of the federal coal mine regulation program, Walter N. Heine is it. Heine Associates, Inc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

The state of Minnesota uses EPA’s ethylene oxide emissions standards, which haven’t been updated since 2006. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

Supreme Court will hear a case that may narrow the scope of a landmark environmental law. Litigants are pushing for the Court to adopt a narrower definition of the term “wetland,” a move which would exempt certain waterways from regulation under the 1972 environmental law.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government.

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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

In Massachusetts, conservation commissions have generally regulated work in wetlands since the 1960s under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, Mass. John died in 2006, and Ann, then the sole owner, sold the property to Pesas in 2014. One can fill or otherwise alter a wetland under an approval known as an “order on conditions.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program up to and including the most recent Bipartisan Infrastructure Law would not have been possible without John’s leadership and his early work with Louise Dunlap. He will continue in a consultancy role to the FPW over the next year.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 1999, the SEC Historical Society shares, preserves, and advances knowledge of the history of financial regulation. It is a registered non-profit and independent organization that maintains a virtual museum and archive of the SEC.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2006, the Arizona Department of Water Resources issued two certificates for 4,228 acre-feet of water – 1.35 Hughes water supply options for Teravalis, some available now, others that will require a change in state law and regulation, include tapping another aquifer and delivering water by pipeline.

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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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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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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

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 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).). North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. potentially regulated wetlands). Supreme Court in Sackett v. Following SWANCC v.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. potentially regulated wetlands). Supreme Court in Sackett v. Following SWANCC v.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

As detailed in our prior Sackett blog article , CWA jurisdictional decisions have been plagued by administrative rulings, guidance, and court opinions that attempted to implement the plurality opinion in the Supreme Court’s 2006 Rapanos v. water[s] of the United States, (i.e.,

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Acoel

AUGUST 19, 2021

The panel’s legal gymnastics to reach this conclusion could be the basis for an entire law school seminar. The panel summarily dispenses with the intervening EPA regulation in a footnote indicating that it is not controlling because EPA has said it intends to reconsider it. One thing seems certain.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. EPA subsequently issued regulations implementing this exemption. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

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 views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan? Draft Plan at 19-21.)

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MGKF Law

MAY 29, 2023

715, 754 (2006). United States, 547 U.S. While the 9-0 decision was unanimous in judgment by holding that the Sacketts’ wetland was not subject to federal jurisdiction, the court was sharply divided as to the test to determine when an adjacent wetland qualifies as a Water of the United States (or “WOTUS”).

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Accelerating the Road to Regulation. that does not have the force of law), but also with national laws like those in the U.S., Aligning Lobbying and Advocacy 7. People and Nature in the Just Transition 8. Increasing Transparency and Accountability 9. Investing in Just Transitions 10.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. State of Karnataka , the Karnataka High Court ordered the handover of a restaurant building under forest conservation law violations. EcoPerspectives Blog The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S. If C (adjacent wetlands) were not part of A (“the waters of the United States”) and therefore subject to regulation under the CWA, there would be no point in excluding them from that category. United States , 547 U.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 27, 2023

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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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Supreme Court will hear arguments in an animal welfare case from California that could have profound, negative impacts on a host of the Golden State’s environmental laws and policies. Specifically, the trade groups claim that the California law violates so-called “dormant” Commerce Clause principles. Constitution.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

The obvious intent of the SPA is to guaranty “that, when seamen provide information of dangerous situations to the Coast Guard, they will be free from the “debilitating threat of employment reprisals for publicly asserting company violations” of maritime statutes or regulations.” Riverboat Services of Indiana, Inc., 451 F.3d

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The use of solicitors is regulated by the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and by the various states. The SEC regulates the use of solicitors and imposes certain requirements. Other Exemptions A lawyer or compliance professional will need to examine the law in each state in which one intends to engage CPA’s as solicitors.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2007

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources has issued a proposed amendment to Statewide Order 29-B that details the procedures the Department will follow in implementing oilfield clean-up plans referred to the Department under Act 312 of 2006. To view the proposed regulations, click here.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The court concluded that FDA did not unlawfully delegate its statutory duties, exceed its statutory authority, or contradict its statutory authority by issuing the GRAS Rule, and ultimately upheld this regulation. FDA Regulation of GRAS Substances. N: FDA’s Approach to the GRAS Provision: A History of Processes (April 2006.

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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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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

of the Dutch Legal Profession Regulations.]]. The mere fact that the in-house lawyers were employed by a subsidiary of a company established in the Netherlands and performed activities ultimately in the interests of the head office in the Netherlands was insufficient to justify Dutch law on the charter being applicable. N:Article 5.12

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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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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.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2015

Summary: A brief look at the fracking industry in Northern Michigan, the laws and regulations, and how fracking is impacting the Grand Traverse Bay Watershed and the Great Lakes. However, Michigan laws also largely exempt fracking from key water protection statutes, like Michigan’s codification of the Great Lakes Compact.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since the country began regulating abandoned mines in 1977 under the Abandoned Mine Land program, the country spent $5 billion, and about $400 million in the Illinois basin, to repair clogged and polluted streams, recontour steep highwalls, and reforest denuded landscapes. For the last 45 years, the U.S. A regular tug-of-war ensued.

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