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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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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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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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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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

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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

In 2010, a similar project located near Edmonton, Shell Canada’s Quest Carbon Capture and Storage Project underwent provincial and federal environmental assessments as well as a public hearing. Ecojustice uses the power of the law to defend nature, combat climate change, and fight for a healthy environment.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

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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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 Because if water law is anything, it’s complex. According to water laws across western states, water can’t be owned, although the right to use that water can be sold, bought and transferred.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 1, 2022

March 2016: Landowners visit the property for the first time since 2010 and noticed a “white area” around the saltwater tanks near the Bash #1. Jamie emerged victorious in 1L year at Baylor Law and is a Gray Reed summer associate. Railroad Commission orders Americo to treat the soil and remove leftover debris. Your musical interlude.

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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.

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Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2022

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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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. Some states have enacted their own laws, regulations, and policies impacting solar panel waste, including California and New Jersey, but most like Maryland while driving solar panel installation to do yet have an end of life plan.

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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. According to the pleadings, a wind rights lease was entered into in 2010 for a 256 acre property in Hale County, Texas. With apologies to Bob Dylan given the recent $1.4

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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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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). Both the science and law around climate change have progressed. But a lot has changed since then.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 11, 2021

The Commission initially authorized a 49-year lease of the site to Southern California Edison (SCE) in 1957, then approved an assignment from SCE and a subsequent 20-year lease to another entity (AES) expiring in 2026; in 2010, it approved a lease amendment adding real party Poseidon to the AES.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. Civil law cases. a group of citizens submitted a civil law complaint requesting an injunction to stop the construction and subsequent operation of two coal-fired power plants. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2022

Russia has already begun to experience infrastructure damage due to melting permafrost; massive wildfires in forested areas and peat fires elsewhere; and horrendous heatwaves like the one that killed tens of thousands of people in 2010. On balance, climate change may produce opportunities for Russia.

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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. Image: W Phumanee, WWF Thailand. Recovering tiger populations in many places will therefore require increasing prey populations.

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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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