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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MAY 29, 2023

715, 754 (2006). 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”). United States, 547 U.S. See 88 Fed.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This time, they’ve teed up the Court to finally resolve the Court’s own fractured opinion from its 2006 decision in Rapanos v. If it’s been a while, the Rapanos Court fractured 4-1-4 on the proper test to determine whether waters that aren’t actually navigable are subject to the Clean Water Act. United States.

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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. While this is true, the panel fails to mention that EPA has also told a District Court in the Ninth Circuit that the regulation should remain the law while EPA is doing its reconsidering. One thing seems certain.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”.

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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 215.).

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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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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Board of Trustees of California State University (2006) 39 Cal.4th The mitigation adopted to mitigate such impacts “required wind-tunnel testing of the design of any new building higher than 80 feet, evaluated under conditions representative of anticipated Plan buildout.” 4th 341, 363.)

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Acoel

JUNE 6, 2023

Posted on June 6, 2023 by Karen Aldridge Crawford This long-awaited decision by SCOTUS in favor of the Sacketts finally put to rest the debate over the “significant nexus” test which was derived from Justice Kennedy’s solo opinion in Rapanos v. 715 (2006) case many years ago. EPA ENDS “SIGNIFICANT NEXUS” TEST appeared first on ACOEL.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

In so holding, the majority expressly rejects the “significant nexus” test espoused by Justice Kennedy in his concurring opinion in Rapanos v. 715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S. 598 U.S. , (2023) (slip. United States , 547 U.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Quite significantly, the Court also squarely rejected the County’s argument that the fair argument test should apply to decisions determining the section 15183 exemption to be inapplicable even if the substantial evidence standard applies to decisions upholding its application. City of Turlock (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th

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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. A brief conclusion is set forth in Part IV.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Generally, for the use of a solicitor to be lawful: There must be written agreement between the adviser and the solicitor that specifies the scope of the solicitor’s activities, the solicitor’s fee and includes covenants by the solicitor to act in compliance with the law and the adviser’s instructions.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

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. Its order required DNR to supplement the plan to address the questionable areas and provide a remediation plan for them. 30:29(C)(5).

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This is particularly true in the booming field of biomarker research, where testing is often done on human tissue or other samples aliquoted from medical procedures, unrelated clinical studies, or collected as part of a companion drug-diagnostic development collaboration. He is not admitted to the practice of law. ” 21 CFR 812.3(s).]]

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2020

Cecil Blount Farms, LLC , [1] is the most recent decision that provides the industry with a real-life application of the rules under Louisiana law for maintaining mineral servitudes. A well was spud on March 28, 2006. The well was a dry hole, however, and was therefore plugged and abandoned on April 21, 2006.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He is the director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing in Europe (CAAT-Europe), and a professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. This requires testing – ideally in conditions that mimic a living brain. How do you define organoid intelligence? We’re also reaching the limits of computing.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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Vermont Law

MAY 25, 2020

California’s Proposition 65 places warning labels on products if “it has been clearly shown through scientifically valid testing according to generally accepted principles to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.”. [23]. It only makes sense for the law to apply this approach to warning label language requirements. Pesticide Law. ,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

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 The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany: Volkswagen settles emissions class action with three-quarters of claimants Reuters | April 20, 2020 Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions tests, the carmaker said on Monday.

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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. Chadwick and the synchrocyclotron.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 6, 2007

2208 (2006). In 2006, the Supreme Court decided two consolidated cases involving the Corps’ authority to require dredge and fill permits under CWA § 404 for discharge into wetlands having only indirect connections to navigable waters. 2208 (2006). United States , 126 S. United States , and Carabell v. United States , 126 S.

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Ohio Environmental Law

APRIL 23, 2020

This would have resulted in a bright line test that a CWA permit is not required unless the point source directly discharges to a river, lake or the ocean. Under the “fairly traceable” test, a CWA permit would be needed anytime a pollutant that enters a river, lake, or ocean could be traced back to a point source.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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 pounds in 2006. Confrontation on New Permit. They are happening, though.

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Corp Watch

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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Corp Watch

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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Corp Watch

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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Corp Watch

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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