The Energy Law Blog

MAY 23, 2007

03-0364, 2007 WL 1299163 (Tex. May 4, 2007), the Texas Supreme Court affirmed a decision by the Austin Court of Appeals upholding the Railroad Commission of Texas’ authority to regulate both drilling and production of commingled oil and/or gas deposits and to treat commingled deposits as one reservoir. Railroad Comm’n, No.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

The MS4 permit is an important document that regulates how municipalities can allow stormwater to flow through the MS4 system and out into natural (or modified) waterways. Heal the Bay’s more recent river report card from 2019 shows high percentages of impaired rivers throughout LA County as well. Download as PDF.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

That uncertainty is one reason some states are hesitant to include tribes in river negotiations, said Becky Mitchell, the director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Drought conditions forced states to negotiate a new set of Colorado River rules in 2007. (Jeremy Wade Shockley for CPR News).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 9, 2023

The EPA updated its anticipated timetable for drafting and finalizing new rules and regulations, indicating that draft rules for two PFAS chemicals in drinking water will be delayed until March 2023. The agency said in February 2022 that it would regulate PFOA and PFOS in drinking water and issued the draft by the end of the year.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Just thirteen Zip codes represent nearly three-fourths of flood damage claims paid in Chicago between 2007 and 2016. Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site. But he said it’s only a first step.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Environmental and conservation groups have for a number of years attempted to convince California courts of the need to integrate climate change considerations into environmental analyses prepared under the state’s most important environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2007, he initiated the Center for Environmental Policy, spearheading the Academy’s involvement in policy and sustainability issues. NewsClips This Week: -- PA Capital-Star: PA House Committee Hears Testimony On Riparian Stream Buffer Bill -- Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, Partners: October Is Riparian Buffer Month!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here, the 9 th Circuit had ruled in 2007 that the Kennedy concurrence was the controlling rule of law. They may be hoping to be a test case for SCOTUS, but I’ve never thought that this was a good case on the merits for conservatives to push. The facts are pretty much an advertisement in support of the significant nexus approach.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 15, 2023

All of that in the modern Washington, DC era of executive action and agency regulation, without Congressional action. DOE estimates that the new rule, if adopted within the proposed timeframe, will conserve roughly 4 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in the 30 years after its implementation. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

It was because of smoke during the 2007 wildfire season in the United States, the second worst at the time for acreage burned. The National Parks Conservation Association praised the act for providing “crucial funding” to start repairing the parks. It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Reduced staffing has compromised the department’s ability to regulate oil and gas development, monitor and reduce air and water pollution and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Clean Water Program In 2007 the DEP’s Clean Water Program had 778 filed positions. That’s about a 30 percent reduction in staff over the last 18 years.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Agenda Posted. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting. Contact: Kirit Dalal, kdalai@pa.gov. In September [PaEN] -- Inquirer: Homeowners Associations Aim To Protect Property Values, But Can Limit Installation Of Solar Panels -- TribLive Guest Essay: America’s Energy Future Depends On PA - Sen.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Today, the Supreme Court decided its most important environmental case since 2007. In order to regulate existing power plants—especially existing coal-fired plants—EPA turned to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. The Obama Administration’s section 111(d) regulation was known as the Clean Power Plan. Background .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Institute for Human Rights and Business reports that of the top 300 undeveloped copper ore reserves in the world, 47% are located on or in Indigenous lands, 65% are in high water risk areas, and 65% are in or near biodiversity conservation areas. The world’s largest open-pit copper mine is in Chile. Decarbonize manufacturing processes.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

They have caused electricity prices to rise 50 percent in Germany since 2007, the first year it got more than 10 percent of its power from subsidized wind, solar, and biomass. By occupying large areas of migratory habitat, wind turbines have also emerged as one of the greatest threats to large, threatened, and high-conservation-value birds.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Not far away, Tim Stutzman, another conservation-minded farmer, feeds cattle and farms 2,800 acres in Morenci. The system was built in 2007 with a $150,000 innovation grant from the USDA. .

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. And would the limits be set by regulations applying to entire industries, or on a facility-by-facility basis? Initially, Chevron was hailed by conservative judges and commentators. 497 (2007) (Justice Stevens ). Train, 420 U.S. Michigan v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

First, the conservatives struck down New York’s requirement for gun owners to prove why they should be allowed to pack heat in public. The leadoff articles in the series included a commentary from Lisa Heinzerling , a Georgetown University environmental law professor, who crafted the victorious brief in the 2007 Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Now, I come from an evangelical conservative faith perspective. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In June, HarperCollins published my new book, Apocalypse Never, which reviews the science of climate change and other environmental problems, and which has been widely praised by leading climate and conservation scientists and scholars. I am honored to address the Committee. Renewables have the same impact everywhere in the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. Since 2007, when he ran unsuccessfully for state senator, the industry has been his top industrial sector donor, contributing more than $875,000 to his campaigns, according to OpenSecrets data.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) originally created the committee in 2007 and then revived it in 2019 when Democrats retook control of the House. Fishing Regulator Rejects Lifting Ban on Female Crab Harvest – The New York Times. Diplomats are expected to take on regulations governing the commercial trade of hippo parts and sharks.

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ESA

JULY 12, 2021

The bill report includes language supporting establishing a Civilian Conservation Corps and directing the BLM, USGS and BLM to discuss the potential to collaborate on efforts to better understand the potential carbon capture and geological storage on federal lands and the possibility of using this information in land management plans.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals report finds that 70% of protected species are hunted for wild meat. The academic research and development report finds that biological and biomedical science and engineering have accounted for 60% of total research space growth from 2007 to 2019. International.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In the chapter on climate change, the CEI calls for Congress to repeal or defund virtually every federal effort enacted by Obama to target climate change, ranging from the ability of the EPA to regulate CO. Environmental protection, what they do is a disgrace; every week they come out with new regulations.”. [34].

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

International Union for the Conservation of Nature holds World Conservation Congress. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as $120 million for the NOAA Civilian Conservation Corps and $500 million for to the Bureau of the Tribal Civilian Conservation Corps. billion for the Civilian Conservation Corps and $2.25

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