Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

And near the end of Bush’s term, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the power to regulate greenhouse gases under a 1970 air pollution law. Still, there was hope that after Bush, Congress would step up and pass a new climate law. And indeed, a major climate bill did pass the House.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2023

has a lower chance of a white Christmas compared to the 1981-2010 average, but a third of the country has an increased chance of Christmas snow cover because earlier snows are more likely to be heavy and last longer on the ground. But the song could turn out to be prophetic. As it turns out, about two-thirds of the U.S. Welcome to the future.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2010, I rightly predicted the end of public nuisance claims aimed at emissions alleged to be causing risks at concentrations below NAAQS levels. first appeared on Law and the Environment. Finally, I wonder whether this research might revive public nuisance litigation over PM2.5 emissions.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Life Sciences & Healthcare Regulatory partner Howard Sklamberg was quoted in a recent article from Bloomberg Law , “Biden’s FDA Pick Gets Bipartisan Support at Senate Panel Hearing.”

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Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

I suspect that, if one asked the average American whether GHG emissions increased or decreased from 2010 to 2019, they would say that emissions decreased. GHG emissions in 2019 were 12% higher in 2019 than 2010. first appeared on Law and the Environment. Sadly, that’s not the case.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Republican victories in the 2010 off-year election ended any chance of legislation. Joe Biden’s climate presidency Under Biden, Congress enacted three laws providing hundreds of billions of dollars to fund clean energy — the 2022 infrastructure law, the CHIPS Act, and the Inflate Reduction Act.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In recent years, particularly since the 2010 COP in Cancun, climate talks have integrated different components of human migration. Their rights are only covered under human rights law. The issue of climate-induced migration is particularly important ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in Glasgow this month.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Journal of International and Comparative Law. , and a member of the Environmental Law Society. gwoupman peyizan.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This blog post is adapted from testimony delivered at the New York City Department of Buildings hearing on proposed rule §103-14 , Procedures for Reporting on and Complying with Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Certain Buildings in connection with the City’s building performance standard, Local Law 97. Additionality.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. The cuts are measured from a 2010-2012 baseline. The law also contains provisions addressing wages and benefits for workers on renewable energy projects.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last February, on the eve of the State of the Union, President Joe Biden embarked on a victory lap for his landmark climate laws. At the time, the White House was focused on explaining to the American people how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act would boost jobs and lift the economy. wind industry.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

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. December 2007: TCEQ contested-case permit hearing. April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. 20 days: The rescission takes effect.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

In terms of the economy, Nigeria experienced a surge of growth at the beginning of this century, averaging over 8% from 1999 to 2010. Sluggish economic growth is one reason why Nigeria may have trouble adapting. But things weren’t so rosy in the last decade, as the country was hit by recessions.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The Commission provided guidance in 2010 to public companies regarding then existing disclosure requirements as they apply to climate change matters. For more than a decade we have assisted public companies and their advisors in matters of climate change and sustainability, including compliance with that 2010 SEC guidance.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Under Dutch tort law, the standard of care is that “acting in conflict with what is generally accepted according to unwritten law is unlawful.” This reports that a net 45% reduction in 2030, relative to 2010, would be consistent with a 50% chance of keeping warming within 1.5°C C and an 85% chance for 2°C.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Savvy players in the environmental industrial complex and associated industries will find business opportunities to lead and profit in environmental matters, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws. to 100%.

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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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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. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. The waivers in the law reduced farmer costs for managing polluted runoff.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The data are from the independent open-source Berkeley Earth project – a project by the formerly outspoken climate skeptic physicist Richard Muller, which in 2010 set out to do better than the traditional climate institutes and in the end obtained almost exactly the same results, just a slightly faster global warming.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We have since its issuance more than a decade ago, assisted companies, including their counsel and auditors, in complying with the SEC’s 2010 Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change , Release No. the physical impacts of climate change. yes, many companies still issue CSR reports) than provided in SEC filings.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

It calls for CO 2 emissions to be reduced by 45% by 2030 relative to 2010 levels and for CO 2 emissions to reach “net zero” by “around mid-century”. first appeared on Law and the Environment. Mitigation : The Pact reaffirmed the goal of keeping temperature increases below 2°C and to pursue efforts to hold the increase to 1.5°

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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. This is consistent with the precautionary principle that underlies much international environmental law.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 31, 2022

She’s been a federal district judge in South Carolina since 2010. Her background is in labor and employment law. In a 2019 case, Judge Jackson held that environmental groups couldn’t challenge the border wall under various laws because Congress had stripped the courts of jurisdiction. United States (2018).

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The standard is based on a percent of total electricity sales, and in addition to certain eligibility requirements, requires that generators have commenced commercial operation after 2010. The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 3, 2023

Separately, in 2010, other of Powell’s successors executed a lease with Concho Operating. Tiereney is in her third year at SMU Law School and an intern at Gray Reed. Over the following decades, Uhl collectively came to own 100% of the mineral estate after a series of conveyances. Both leases provided for a ¼ royalty.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But how was Richard Heede able to calculate that, at the time, 90 companies were responsible for nearly two-thirds of the carbon emissions between 1854 and 2010? That funding is on top of the $440 million the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law earmarked for wildfire mitigation efforts. percent of total emissions. CP: Great question.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

I am pleased to be speaking on “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” at the Maryland State Bar Association 2021 Legal Excellence Week, Corporate Council Institute on November 16, 2021. You can register to attend in person or online. yes, this blog will continue).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Jonathan Fritz (R-Wayne) has introduced two new bills continuing his years-long effort to end the Delaware River Basin Commission moratorium on shale gas fracking that has been in place in one form or another since 2010. Fact: Obviously, unilateral changes to the DRBC compact don’t have any effect. That’s not how interstate compacts work.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since 2016, EPA has generally shown restraint in setting targets for biodiesel and related fuels, insofar as the law allows, and biodiesel consumption has actually fallen. While ethanol remains the largest US source of biofuel, biodiesel and more recently renewable diesel have accounted for most of the growth since 2010.

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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. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Since 2010, the SEC has made clear that its existing disclosure regime requires issuers to assess and, if material, disclose the impact of and risks related to climate change and related legislative and regulatory responses. The post 2021 Marked by SEC Focus on Climate-related Disclosures first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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