CEQA Developments

MAY 16, 2022

Board of Trustees of California State University (2006) 39 Cal.4th Finally, it rejected Appellants’ argument that the City should have performed additional CEQA review to address the revised version of the wastewater permit that it approved, which added two new waste streams not addressed in the EIR. Citing Friends of Outlet Creek v.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

PJM’s all-time, one-day highest power use was recorded in the summer of 2006 at 165,563 MW. PJM projects a non-diversified peak demand for electricity this summer at approximately 156,000 MW and has performed reliability studies at loads nearing 163,000 MW. One megawatt can power about 800 homes.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2018

I am confident that switching from fossil fuels to renewables (and efficiency , as I learned during my Master’s thesis in 2006) can be done relatively fast in wealthy nations (ten to fifteen years) and by mid-century in developing ones. Industry too has to transform itself to shift away from its current take, make, waste model.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

In the Himalayas, a study conducted for ecotourism revealed that locals suffered from increased waste generation and water pollution. In India, the 2013 flash floods in the Kedarnath Valley occurred due to a climate-change-aggravated melting of glaciers triggered by hordes of tourists banking themselves in the mountains yearly.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. In countries without proper waste disposal, untreated sewage is a factor. The process introduces salts into the waste stream, which are detrimental for downstream waters. He was 19 when he died. So does fossil fuel combustion.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The Fund Since it was established in 2006, the Schuylkill River Restoration Fund has supported 121 environmental projects with an investment of $4.6 The garden will feature a subterranean stormwater storage system and Pennsylvania native plants.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 16, 2017

I saw last week An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore, the sequel of 2006 hit documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Wikipedia states that he held the “first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor[ed] hearings on toxic waste and global warming.” I have mix feelings about it. ” in 1976 !!

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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. 27 Released 1.1

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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. They won that one, with the late Justice Scalia writing the opinion for a unanimous Court. United States.

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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 are well documented. Image credit to cleantechnica.com.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 56 (6): 709–42.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

They include forbidding practices that might “disturb the ecological balance,” making natural sites accessible to all citizens, developing local sources of energy, outlining state’s authority to punish those who violate flora and fauna protection laws, and protect against waste originating from “foreign sources.”

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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).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. preventing a waste company from depositing toxic sewage. The modern movement in the United States began when residents of towns in Pennsylvania passed ordinances banning extractive activities harming water supplies and the natural environment. passed local law.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. This is when the highly reflective properties of dark-coloured solar panels lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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Acoel

JUNE 6, 2023

715 (2006) case many years ago. 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. United States, 547 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . For more information or to request an interview, please contact: Allen Braude, Environmental Defence, abraude@environmentaldefence.ca, 416-356-2587. Backgrounder: A Schedule by Schedule Analysis of the Biggest Environmental Impacts of Bill 23. Jeopardizing Rental Replacement. The amendment to s.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . Unless the major flaws in Bill 23 are addressed, it will further the destruction of critical natural areas in a time of climate crisis, while also failing to deliver the urban transformation – or the affordable housing – that Ontario needs. Below is a detailed analysis of Bill 23. The amendment to s.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

Inevitably, municipal solid waste collection fails to capure all trash. Wind blows waste out of landfills. Despite what one might initially think, marine trash is, to a significant extent, a. terrestrial problem. . that most marine trash derives from land. . Urban stormwater. is a key pathway. People litter. City of Arcadia v.

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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.

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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. In every other industry, point source permits require polluters to treat their wastes to dramatically reduce contaminants. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Supreme Court case in 2006 introduced the “ significant nexus ” test, with one justice arguing that wetlands not connected to a navigable waterway on the surface can still be protected under the Clean Water Act if the wetlands “significantly affect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of other covered waters.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Walker Adams , Leeward Renewable Energy , introduced his compaying by saying, “LRE has operated utility-scale wind projects in Pennsylvania since 2006. Having been in operation for nearly two decades, these wind projects have become part of the fabric of their communities and the Commonwealth’s energy supply.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It won’t only affect global warming regulations: Parties currently engaged in legal battles have now cited the major questions doctrine in cases addressing abortion access, LGBTQ+ discrimination, nuclear waste storage, workers’ rights and overtime pay, and more.

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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.

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