Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

DEA and state law enforcement agencies were very reluctant to move against doctors running pill mills, not wanting to tangle with the medical profession. It took until 2010 to get a CDC leader who was willing to deal with the issue. There was equally little evidence for the idea that prescription drugs aren’t an addiction problem.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. March 2010 Denbury Onshore intervenes arguing that the wells might harm the Conroe Oil Sands. November 2010: After hearing on remand, ALJ recommends the application be denied.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

One water utility, Southern Water, was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping wastewater into waterways from 2010 to 2015. The pollution has sparked criticism from the public, prompting stricter laws from the government and promises from utilities to lower pollution. Sewage pollution is rampant in U.K. ON THE RADAR.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is noteworthy not because it contains anything new (it doesn’t), but because despite clearly violating the established standards of good scientific practice, it was published by a government agency. This warming was predicted not only by independent university and government scientists, but also by scientists from the oil company Exxon.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The case holds that the City’s water allocations to the City’s agricultural lessees were authorized under its existing 2010 leases and thus did not constitute a new project subject to CEQA review before they could be lawfully implemented. Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As I noted in my introductory post on the Commission, I served as an advisor to the Secretariat and my students in the UCLA International Climate Law and Policy Clinic provided research and analytic support to the Secretariat. It is thus consistent with large body of prior international law.

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Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2022

For starters, food price shocks are a political nightmare for weak governments. During the global food crisis of 2010, to take one recent example, widespread protests over the price of bread and food in several North African countries contributed to the instability and rage that fueled the Arab Spring.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Given this, over the last century, a large body of international law has been developed to govern ocean-based activities. It is proving difficult in part because of the highly siloed nature of international environmental law. But none of the relevant international agreements were designed with ocean CDR in mind.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Another of the group’s members is Lynn Henning, an earlier Petoskey Prize winner who also was awarded the 2010 Goldman Prize, the world’s leading honor for environmental activists. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. Government pays all or a share of the cost of implementing the practices. Henning is a farmer, too.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under Dutch tort law, the standard of care is that “acting in conflict with what is generally accepted according to unwritten law is unlawful.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2021

On December 16, DEP’s Solid Waste Advisory and Recycling Fund Advisory Committees are scheduled to meet and on the agenda are presentations by DEP on its recommendations for changing the law to make Act 101 Recycling Programs more effective and fixing the very broken Electronics Waste Recycling Program.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

It was only in 2010 that India agreed that all countries should take responsibility for controlling their own emissions, but there was backsliding the following year at the next round of international negotiations. the national government isn’t the only presence in terms of climate policy. As in the U.S.,

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. Some believe this end of life government subsidy to the solar industry is key to continuing the greater solar market uptick and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, solar panels provided about 40% of new U.S. nothing that 900 degrees F will not thermally separate?

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I This summer in Oregon the federal government shut off access to water in the Klamath River due to a historic drought, prompting some farmers and activists to threaten to take the water by force.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Strategic acquirors and private equity firms often pursue acquisitions of small-business government contractors with an attractive niche or technology but also understand that, following the acquisition, the small business affiliation rules[[N:13 C.F.R. SIZ-5177, 2010 WL 6576189, at *23 (Dec. 20, 2010))).]] § 121.103.]]

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The court found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. There were three separate claims, brought by (1) Friends of the Earth, (2) ClientEarth, and (3) Good Law Project and environmental campaigner Joanna Wheatley. First, that the Government had breached s.13

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

These annual marine heatwaves (MHWs) have increased by 54% during the last century, and eight of the ten worst MHWs have occurred since 2010. Diverse Indigenous peoples have managed Pacific salmon for thousands of years, developing complex socio-cultural systems that include traditional laws, harvesting practices, and spiritual beliefs.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 20, 2024

Part Three will contextualize the SEC’s final climate disclosure rule alongside California’s recent climate-disclosure laws and the EPA’s GHG emissions reporting regime , and explore the question of field preemption under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. The SEC has issued hundreds of these since its inception in 1933.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

The DEA has offered National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day since 2010 with the goal of fighting prescription drug misuse by creating convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwise be at risk of misuse. We are proud to provide this service along with training and support to local law enforcement,” said Maj.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2010, for example, we knew that at least 20 countries had the highest emissions and the least climate vulnerability at the national level—an inequality that has only been exacerbated since. The IPCC still plays this role today, with the sixth assessment cycle of reports published earlier this year.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 16, 2023

The wind is blowing in Texas and the courts are making laws about the movement of air. At this time when government actions, including by the courts, around climate change represent much of the opportunities in the years ahead, including the increasing emphasis on renewable energy, the wind is key.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

4) affirmed a judgment upholding the City of Newark’s (City) use of Government Code § 65457’s CEQA exemption for a 469-lot residential subdivision on land adjacent to San Francisco Bay. Petitioner CCCR successfully challenged that 2010 EIR in court; in correcting its identified deficiencies, the City adopted a recirculated EIR (REIR).

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Sea Level 2010 Government 2013 85

A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It According to the study, deforestation related to industrial mining peaked in Indonesia between 2010 and 2014. One of the main reasons is the massive coal mining permits, including in forest areas.”

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. There’s a reason that farmers, notoriously resistant to government oversight, support the work of the Water Assessment Unit.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible. Both the science and law around climate change have progressed.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hawke has been named to Board’s Class of 2024, which will help govern the organization in its mission to preserve the historical significance of the SEC. The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has named Securities Enforcement & Litigation partner Daniel M. Hawke to its Board of Trustees.

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Frontiers

APRIL 19, 2023

More tigers, but difficult circumstances Since 2010, a ‘year of the Tiger’ under the Asian lunar calendar, there has been considerable global attention on tiger conservation. We found that there are more than 1,290,000sq km of former tiger range with similar characteristics to places currently occupied by tigers.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And while each brief focuses on the domain of the agency or group submitting it (and the law professors’ brief discusses state and local authority under the U.S As described in the Local Government Brief, the police power is retained by the states under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Local Government Brief 9).

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

In Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges, Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal and I looked at how hydropower was crucial for energy security and Pakistan. However, the project was never undertaken because of interprovincial distrust and political manipulation by successive governments. appeared first on.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 1, 2021

of Supervisors (2010) 48 Cal.4th City of Stockton (2010) 48 Cal.4th Here, as a matter of law, “[t]he City’s filing of the second NOD with the county clerk provided constructive notice of Microsoft’s identity precluding plaintiff’s ability to claim genuine ignorance.” Santa Clara County Bd. 4th 32, 54.). 4th 481, 502.)

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, Indonesians at the frontline of climate change filed a claim before the National Human Rights Commission seeking recognition that climate change is a matter of human rights and calling on the Indonesian government to take stronger action. Indonesia , as well as recent developments of the case. The human rights complaint.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Court’s majority acknowledged such actions would contravene FERC’s “sole jurisdiction” over licensing process disputes and be preempted under longstanding federal law. (18 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).). North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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