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Second District Affirms Judgment Upholding Water Code CEQA Exemption, Rejects Plaintiff’s Attempt To Extend CEQA Review And Findings Requirements To Regional Water Board’s Approval Of Waste Discharge Permits

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.

Waste

Waste Law 2006 Regulations

PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

Climate Change

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2006

20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Bernalillo County required the developer to install expensive wastewater treatment and recycling infrastructure to reduce water use and waste. In 2006, the Arizona Department of Water Resources issued two certificates for 4,228 acre-feet of water – 1.35 billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

Recycling

Recycling 2022 Law 2004

After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” But companies had a leisurely decade to meet commitments.

Regulations

Regulations Toxic Substances Control Act Government 2006

Responsible Agency Committed Fundamental CEQA Procedural Violation By Not Making Public Resources Code Section 21081 Findings for Significant Effects Associated With Its Wastewater Permit For Water Bottling Plant Project

CEQA Developments

MAY 16, 2022

Per the Court, the City prejudicially erred by failing to make the findings required by law, and also by failing to “provide the required ‘brief explanation of the rationale’ for its nonexistent findings.” (Citing CEQA Guidelines, § 15091(a); Laurel Heights Improvement Assn. Board of Trustees of California State University (2006) 39 Cal.4th

2017

2017 Law 2006 Waste

Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

However, by internalizing the role of environmental law and grassroots efforts, there is a hope of success for Haiti’s continued reconstruction and long-term development. _. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management. By Marie Hollister. gwoupman peyizan.

2010

2010 Law Deforestation Rainforest

EPA Publishes WOTUS Update Following Sackett Decision

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. Riverside Bayview Homes (1985)- Court affirmatively decides adjacent wetlands are protected under the CWA.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2001 2006 Regulations

EPA Publishes WOTUS Update Following Sackett Decision

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. Riverside Bayview Homes (1985)- Court affirmatively decides adjacent wetlands are protected under the CWA.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2001 2006 Regulations

The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

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?

2006

2006 Conservation Rainforest Deforestation

Rights of Nature: Seeing the Forests and Trees

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

constitutive law. In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. passed local law. In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. passed local law. preventing a waste company from depositing toxic sewage. Earth Law Center. Notably, Earth law logically extends beyond Earth itself.

Law

Law 2017 2018 2019

Taking Bets: The Supreme Court Is Just About to Split NPDES and Section 404 Permitting Under the Clean Water Act

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. See , e.g. , Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v Edwards, — F. They won that one, with the late Justice Scalia writing the opinion for a unanimous Court. United States.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2001 2006 2008

Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster

Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

It is widely known that there have been problems with nuclear energy and waste, and the energy costs of mining uranium in terms of overall emissions. In 2006, the Department of Energy warned that consumption of water for electricity production could more than double by 2030 to 7.3 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

Cooling

Cooling Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels 2006

3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station

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.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas 2022 2012 Environmental Protection

That Dam Case (Again): Third District Upholds Oroville Hydropower Facilities Relicensing EIR Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

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.).

Climate Change

Climate Change 2008 2017 Law

California Water Challenges Remain Despite Significant Precipitation in 2023

Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Accordingly, it retained key elements of the state-wide drought emergency, including the ban on wasteful water uses, existing groundwater directives, emergency measures for drought-stricken watersheds like the Klamath and Colorado Rivers, and a state of emergency across all 58 counties to facilitate ongoing drought response and recovery.

2023

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Ninth Circuit Vacates EPA Rule Excepting Oil and Gas Construction Discharges from NPDES Permitting

The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 25, 2008

Section 402(l)(2) exempts discharges from oil and gas E&P activities that are composed of flows that “do not come into contact with, any overburden, raw material, intermediate products, finished product, byproduct, or waste products.” As for large construction activities, they previously required NPDES permits (prior to June 12, 2006).

2006

2006 Clean Water Act Energy Policy Act 2005

Texas Supreme Court to Hear Miesch Case

The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2007

For a copy of TxOGA’s brief, click on the following link Amicus Curiae Brief of TXOGA – Received: 10/16/2006 . The royalty owners intervened and asserted claims against Exxon for, among others, common law waste, statutory waste, negligence per se, tortious interference, and failure to develop. Emerald Oil & Gas v.

2005

2005 Natural Resources Waste Law

EPA Announces $16 Million In Brownfield Grants To Rehabilitate, Revitalize Communities In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

That why he secured historic funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, supercharging EPA’s Brownfields program to clean up contaminated properties in overburdened communities and bring them back into productive use.” Thanks to the historic $1.5

Law

Law 2006 Environmental Protection Recycling

EPA Denied Extension to Promulgate Boiler MACT Rule

The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

However, these standards were vacated by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after the Court found EPA’s definition of “commercial or industrial waste” conflicted with the language of the Clean Air Act in NRDC v. EPA , 489 F. 3d 1250 (D.C. Johnson , 444 F. 2d 46 (D.D.C.

2011

2011 Clean Air Act 2012 2004

SCOTUS’s DECISION IN SACKETT V. EPA ENDS “SIGNIFICANT NEXUS” TEST

Acoel

JUNE 6, 2023

715 (2006) case many years ago. Clearly there may be different treatment under state wetlands laws if state law definitions differ from those set forth in the CWA. United States, 547 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S. 159 (2001).

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2001 Ocean 2006

July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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.

2017

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Renewable Energy

Statement: Bill 23 will Unleash a Firestorm of Environmentally Destructive Rural Sprawl – It Must Be Repealed

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This dangerous Bill has been forced into law through a process designed to prevent meaningful consideration of its impacts, discussion with those affected, or on a time frame that reflects the enormity of the changes. SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . We will all need to work together to see this legislation repealed. .

Conservation

Conservation Government 2001 Regulations

Ontario’s Housing Bill is Actually a Trojan Horse for Environmentally Catastrophic Rural Sprawl

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . This law would exempt the project from many features of an Environmental Assessment, and even from the Environmental Bill of Rights. Below is a detailed analysis of Bill 23. BACKGROUNDER: A SCHEDULE BY SCHEDULE ANALYSIS OF THE BIGGEST ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF BILL 23. The amendment to s.

Conservation

Conservation 2001 Government Regulations

Zero Trash: Using the Clean Water Act to Control Marine Debris in California

Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

the environmental law and policy blog of UCLA Law School and UC Berkeley Law School. . Inevitably, municipal solid waste collection fails to capure all trash. Wind blows waste out of landfills. first state law banning single-use plastic bags. , Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Megan M.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act Ocean Regulations Law

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. Olson, one of the state’s leading environmental lawyers and founder of FLOW, a non-profit water law and advocacy group in Traverse City. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue.

Regulations

Regulations Waste 2022 2015

EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Issue Draft Guidance on Waters Protected by Clean Water Act

The Energy Law Blog

MAY 17, 2011

Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) released new proposed guidance on how the agencies will identify waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) in light of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. 715 (2006). Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S. 159 (2001) (SWANCC) and Rapanos v. United States, 547 U.S.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2011 2001 2006

The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still Save Them.

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since water makes a wetland, the primary federal law governing wetland protection is the Clean Water Act, which was enacted in 1972 to restore and maintain the “Nation’s waters” ( 33 U.S.C. Fertilizers, pesticides, livestock waste, and other pollutants run off from agricultural fields and factories and into our waterways.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2023 2001 Law

The Supreme Court Has Unleashed a New Tool to Hamstring Federal Agencies. Congress Must Act.

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When Congress passes a law, it normally delegates to the relevant federal agency (or agencies) the responsibility of writing regulations to implement that law. These strategies can allow the government to keep using agency expertise to carry out its responsibility to implement laws intended to protect the public.

Clean Air Act

Clean Air Act Regulations Politics Law

Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v. United States. The House also passed its NSF authorizing bill entitled NSF for the Future Act ( H.R.

2021

2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 2022

The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 Government

Ukraine conflict a boon for defense industry

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 2022

How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 Government

Washington Post Runs Pro-War Column Without Disclosing Author’s Raytheon Ties

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 Government

15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2017 2023

Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2017 2023

American Arms Makers Are Making a Killing off of Israel's Slaughter in Gaza

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 Government

Defense Stocks Soar as Trump Wages War on Syria

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: Raytheon Sued Over Retirement Benefits Brendan Pierson | Law 360 | June 27, 2007 Raytheon Co.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 Government

Second District Affirms Judgment Upholding Water Code CEQA Exemption, Rejects Plaintiff’s Attempt To Extend CEQA Review And Findings Requirements To Regional Water Board’s Approval Of Waste Discharge Permits

PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Responsible Agency Committed Fundamental CEQA Procedural Violation By Not Making Public Resources Code Section 21081 Findings for Significant Effects Associated With Its Wastewater Permit For Water Bottling Plant Project

Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

EPA Publishes WOTUS Update Following Sackett Decision

EPA Publishes WOTUS Update Following Sackett Decision

The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Rights of Nature: Seeing the Forests and Trees

Taking Bets: The Supreme Court Is Just About to Split NPDES and Section 404 Permitting Under the Clean Water Act

Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster

3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station

That Dam Case (Again): Third District Upholds Oroville Hydropower Facilities Relicensing EIR Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

California Water Challenges Remain Despite Significant Precipitation in 2023

Ninth Circuit Vacates EPA Rule Excepting Oil and Gas Construction Discharges from NPDES Permitting

Texas Supreme Court to Hear Miesch Case

EPA Announces $16 Million In Brownfield Grants To Rehabilitate, Revitalize Communities In Pennsylvania

EPA Denied Extension to Promulgate Boiler MACT Rule

SCOTUS’s DECISION IN SACKETT V. EPA ENDS “SIGNIFICANT NEXUS” TEST

July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Statement: Bill 23 will Unleash a Firestorm of Environmentally Destructive Rural Sprawl – It Must Be Repealed

Ontario’s Housing Bill is Actually a Trojan Horse for Environmentally Catastrophic Rural Sprawl

Zero Trash: Using the Clean Water Act to Control Marine Debris in California

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Issue Draft Guidance on Waters Protected by Clean Water Act

The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still Save Them.

The Supreme Court Has Unleashed a New Tool to Hamstring Federal Agencies. Congress Must Act.

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15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

American Arms Makers Are Making a Killing off of Israel's Slaughter in Gaza

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