Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2023

Petro indicated that his government will not allow the mine to proceed. AngloGold Ashanti responded that the mine would not damage water bodies and that the company would work with regulators to resume the project. California regulators are developing a new hazardous waste management plan that could address some of these concerns.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. This change in the RCRA regulations could provide one system for handling all discarded solar panels, without regard to hazardous or not. Solar panels provide clean energy from the sun, and their prevalence as an energy source has been growing dramatically.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

They are governed by rules written by the federal government – and sometimes provincial governments – and these rules are enforced by various governmental bodies and departments, such as the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institution (OFSI) or the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Whether we experience an affordable and safe future, or one of spiralling costs and climate impacts, depends most on one thing: government action. While the federal and some provincial governments made key announcements in 2023 that will support climate action and improve the cost of living, they have more to do.

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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. § 121.103.]] may preclude the business from qualifying as a small business.

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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. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2022

The TCFD standard is the international benchmark for climate risk disclosure and will help insurance regulators and the public to better understand the climate-related risks to the U.S. state insurance regulators on the forefront of climate risk disclosure to protect consumers. financial regulators such as the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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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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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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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. Until the early years of this century, Michigan regulators and lawmakers paid scant attention to the supply of groundwater.

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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. Founded in 1999, the SEC Historical Society shares, preserves, and advances knowledge of the history of financial regulation.

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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. In the pre-colonial era, mechanisms such as the traditional administrative system which regulated grazing activities and demarcated cattle migratory routes, known as the burti, were key to establishing clear boundaries between farmers and herders.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

We urgently need more action and oversight from policymakers at every level, from Congress to federal and state regulators, to address the consequences of methane gas overreliance head-on. And between 2010 and 2020 across all economic sectors, the share of US primary energy consumption from methane gas increased from 25 to 34 percent. .

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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. The new MPA will be managed by the Nation and Indigenous guardians will be recognized by the federal government as having park ranger authority. What are the paths forward?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past several years – and especially in the past few months – Premier Doug Ford’s government has made sweeping changes to environmental protection and land use planning rules across Ontario. . The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It It is important to note that once a mining permit is issued in a forested area, there must be deforestation, but the problem is that current mining regulations in Indonesia still allow such a thing to happen.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 31, 2021

announcing its new initiative to support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts by collecting and publishing data on the diversity of corporate boards and management of its Regulated Banking Institutions and Regulated Non-Depository Financial Institutions (collectively, Regulated Institutions).[[N:The 5452 (2010).]]

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each of these spheres is regulated at the federal, state, and local levels. It is beyond dispute that the federal government, through regulatory standards promulgated pursuant to EPCA, has the authority to set – and does set – energy conservation standards for many common consumer and industrial appliances. DOE Brief 8).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. What is the social cost of carbon? If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 20, 2024

Since the SEC first issued guidance on climate risk disclosures in 2010, other countries have moved ahead in requiring these kinds of disclosures, like China. However, a recent decision by the Government Accountability Office confirmed that agency guidance is subject to review under the Congressional Review Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2022

. -- Blocking Methane Emission Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas Wells: The Environmental Quality Board just finalized a regulation to reduce methane emissions from UNconventional shale gas facilities and they plan to adopt a separate regulation covering conventional oil and gas facilities because it has long been required by the U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The district court agreed and dismissed those charges, after which the government appealed. Earlier this week, the Fifth Circuit ruled against the government finding that contractors cannot criminally violate these OCSLA regulations. Wood Group issued the hot work permit for this task on November 16, 2010. See 43 U.S.C.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The dissent reasoned that CEQA, a powerful and mandatory regulatory statute operating in areas duplicative of FERC’s FPA licensing authority, “stands as a clear obstacle to the Congressional objective of vesting exclusive control over hydropower licensing and regulation in FERC.”. North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. Almost immediately, politicians and community groups cried for new regulations to prevent something like the Elk River spill from happening again. Summary: . A new Senate bill – S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Appalachian Power is currently seeking approval from Virginia regulators to increase residential electric rates by nearly 16 percent due to higher fuel costs.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

On August 30, Allentown-based PPL Corporation published reports focused on the company's sustainability performance and environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Plants regulate their salt concentrations much like how our bodies regulate blood pressure. For farmers whose land is no longer productive, government programs known as conservation or wetland easements encourage the transition from cropland into marsh, explained Mike Dryden, a restoration specialist with The Nature Conservancy.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 16, 2023

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. According to the pleadings, a wind rights lease was entered into in 2010 for a 256 acre property in Hale County, Texas.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

This new financing comes from the LEAF Coalition , a partnership between the governments of the USA, UK and Norway, alongside some of the world’s largest companies, including Amazon, Nestlé, BlackRock and Walmart. In 2007 and 2010 , for example, Costa Rica carried out its first debt-for-nature swaps with the United States.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. The regulatory process leading to the Vineyard Wind Project offshore Massachusetts began in 2010.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2015

Summary: A brief look at the fracking industry in Northern Michigan, the laws and regulations, and how fracking is impacting the Grand Traverse Bay Watershed and the Great Lakes. In 2010, the Antrim shale became the U.S.’s The Collingwood/Utica shale is a much deeper formation than the Antrim shale, and in 2010, 5.5

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