Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2008, Bolivia nationalized lithium, and since then, the state has controlled the access, extraction process, and production of lithium carbonate. However, the country is now trying to create partnerships with foreign companies that can provide the required technology and technical capacities to get the business started.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Until the early years of this century, Michigan regulators and lawmakers paid scant attention to the supply of groundwater. Michigan responded in 2008 by requiring farmers to register any new well capable of pumping at least 100,000 gallons a day and forming a team of state regulators to issue or deny new registrations.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 15, 2022

Without further action, shipping emissions are projected to rise by at worst 30% by 2050, compared to 2008 levels. To date, the IMO has set an emissions reduction target of just 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels, which campaigners say is insufficient to help limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

million in auction proceeds that have been collected since the program was launched in 2008. These diversions are inconsistent with New York State regulations aimed at ensuring the proceeds of the auctions would be spent on new programs to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Public Health : Based on a law first introduced in 2008 and then the success of a pilot program initially implemented in the heart of London dating to 2019, the first year of this program alone will reduce GHG emissions by 45% from those vehicles that are no longer there.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

euros a ton in April 2013, compared to its peak near 30 euros in July 2008. Prices this low fail to send the signal needed to stimulate investment into low carbon technologies and undermine the ETS’s ability to meet higher reduction goals in the long-term. The back-loading regulation aims to help prop up this ailing market.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 21, the European Commission (Commission) proposed legislation (EC Proposal) that would comprehensively regulate artificial intelligence systems in the European Union, including externally located systems with output used inside the EU.[[N: 21, 2021).]] The amended acts are Regulation 300/2008, 2008 O.J. (L

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

per MMBtu, unless lease royalties were renegotiated with the Secretary , imposes Conservation of Resources Fee on nonproducing lease acreage of $3.75 per MMBtu, unless lease royalties were renegotiated with the Secretary , imposes Conservation of Resources Fee on nonproducing lease acreage of $3.75

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Trisko Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, railroad deregulation, and environmental regulation. billion tons in 2008. Source: US DOE/EIA. Source: US DOE/EIA.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

These are known as TENORMs, or technologically-enhanced naturally-occurring radioactive materials.” Pike said, “The takeaway is that we should regulate waste based on the chemicals it contains, not what process produced it. “The process of gas drilling brings radioactive material from underground to the surface.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Rolls-Royce sees the approach as low risk as light-water reactors are a mature technology with a proven track record. Powerful stuff.

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Washington Nature

JULY 11, 2023

In 2008, she emerged as a Legal and Policy Advisor at the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Notably, Jennifer co-chaired the National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology, orchestrating federal interagency collaborations. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. The groups said FERC’s review was at odds with EPA and Council on Environmental Quality guidance, caselaw, and the NEPA regulations. The court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

On June 14, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 3, with one abstention, to adopt Part I of a revised final regulation reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from just unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. Representatives of Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and John St.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And so what this study did was looking at 2002 to 2015 Medicare claims, the authors took advantage of a stark difference in fracking activity between Pennsylvania, where the practice started becoming widespread in 2008, and in New York, where fracking was and still is banned. And of course, regulations cannot stop air pollution.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

Minnesota state regulators are penalizing the oil and gas company Enbridge for harming groundwater during the construction of the Line 3 pipeline. Five water systems in the community, which have been under long-term drinking water advisories since 2008, are now being served by a new water filtration plant. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

John Ruggie’s 2008 Framework imposes only a responsibility, not a legal duty, on companies to respect human rights. is now in a terrible situation with a president and Congressional majorities that are hostile to environmental regulation, especially as relates to climate change. The Global Pact could change this. That is why U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

On July 21, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted unanimously 5 to 0 to approve Part I of final Environmental Quality Board regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Whether the Paris agreement can avoid being another Kyoto Protocol depends on the technology and lifestyles that developing nations choose to adopt as they eventually earn more income and whether the American government steps up to be a leader in environmental protection. COP 21: A Kyoto Protocol Redux? appeared first on.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants. 13] California regulators in 2020 over-estimated the contribution they could reasonably expect from renewables. The situation could have been avoided,” said the CEO of CAISO.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. After five months of investigation, and in interviews with more than 40 farmers, state regulators, advocates, and scientists in five states and Washington, D.C.,

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

Allyson Purcell is the director of West Coast hatcheries for NOAA, which oversees endangered salmon recovery, sets regulations for hatcheries and funds roughly a third of all Columbia River hatchery production. Tagged fish can be detected by special technology, often at dams, and tag data can provide a window into fish migration and survival.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Rather, they resulted in low-wage service sector jobs, greater dependence on imported Chinese technologies, and higher energy costs. And over the last decade, the technology used in the vast majority of installed solar panels has only become 2-3 percent more efficient. The problem with renewables is physical.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Social Cost of GHG: A Brief History Federal agencies began to develop estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide (SCC) following the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s 2008 decision in Center for Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [2] 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 3] EPA, Final 2023 Report, at 6. [4]

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It then discusses the potential to use a cap-and-invest approach to mitigate GHG emissions from transportation in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic and addresses two key policy considerations: the type of fuels to be covered and the point of regulation. Through independent regulations, each state’s CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In its memorandum, EPA explained that it believed that the 2015 SSM SIP Policy was the better policy because: It is consistent with the 2008 D.C. 2008), and a 2014 decision, in which the D.C. The policy further explained that SIPs could include criteria and procedures for how an agency may use enforcement discretion for SSM events.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

How this occurred is a story of law, policy, technology, and public investment that converged to improve Lake Erie’s water quality in the 1970s and 1980s, but began to falter starting in the late 1990s. . The technology measures plant growth and soil conditions. Regulation Begins. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Up until the last couple of decades, Michigan regulators and lawmakers paid little attention to the supply of groundwater. In 2008, Michigan responded to new threats to its water supply by requiring farmers to register any new well able to pump at least 100,000 gallons a day. Most of that water came from high-capacity wells.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

“As global leaders in renewable energy, the United States and the European Commission will work to expedite planning and approval for renewable energy projects and strategic energy cooperation, including on technologies where we both excel such as offshore wind. “We They could start drilling on these leases today if they wanted to.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

You know of our immense potential, yet the State has been hamstrung by regulation, bans, time-intensive permitting, RGGI, and further taxation while you support energy means that cannot possibly power the needs of the 21st century.” Wolf have all called on the General Assembly to toughen laws regulating pipelines to no avail.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

N:The Myanmar military is claiming that its actions to take control of the government was in accordance to the 2008 constitution to protect democracy in Myanmar to prevent an illegitimate Union Parliament taking office, citing to irregularities in the November 2020 election. New Export Controls.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Real estate experts say that if that were to occur at a large scale and many home­owners abandoned their mortgages, the United States could experience a housing crisis that rivals the 2008 market meltdown and lands squarely in the laps of US taxpayers, hurting low-income people in particular. ” That results in some upside-down outcomes.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In 2008, former Pennsylvania Gov. The agency hopes for future gas leases that could double the amount of game land leased since 2008. And technological advances, along with more accurate geological information, have driven up the estimates of gas available in Marcellus Shale states.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. There's new technology out there, fluidized bed coal-fired power plants. RGGI has more than a long history of economic success.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 20, 2021

The EO includes certain initiatives aimed at specific industries, such as agriculture, information technology, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, telecommunications, and financial services, while other initiatives target the economy more generally. bank companies’ entry into consumer finance markets.[[N: at Section 5(h); 5(v).]].

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. That chant is back in vogue, as the general election heats up.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism! Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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