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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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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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. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27.

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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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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). That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition. But a lot has changed since then.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

However, the project was never undertaken because of interprovincial distrust and political manipulation by successive governments. After the 2010 floods, which resulted in huge losses to the country’s economy—$49 million in communication infrastructure, $2.5 Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Law at Barry University School of Law.

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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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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. So, what happens now?

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS.

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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. The law and the program require applicants to provide data and make the case they are not causing harm. . Is the state prepared for more?

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%. They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. Circuit and Supreme Court; and. * Gerald Torres , a professor at Cornell Law School whose recent work has focused on interactions between social movements, litigation, and legislative change.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The regulatory process leading to the Vineyard Wind Project offshore Massachusetts began in 2010. To date, the development of offshore wind in federal waters has largely been limited to the east coast. The Construction and Operations Plan for this project was approved by BOEM in 2021. federal waters. 585.107(f).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. The claim is grounded on the constitutionally recognized right to a healthy environment; fundamental rights such as the right to life, dignity, health, food, and housing; along with several recognized principles of international environmental law and international climate change commitments.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 T accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles. Kobe Steel, Toyota hit with U.S.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Tough cleanup goals Under a 2010 cleanup plan, formally known as the Bay’s total maximum daily load, the EPA assigned all six states in the Chesapeake watershed, along with the District of Columbia, specific goals for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus, the two nutrients largely responsible for the Bay’s poor water quality.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort. The complexity of the calculation, the range of assumptions that need to be made and the modelling used mean the SCC is open to many interpretations, and political gridlock.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers. Thirty-six years after graduating from Albany Law School, she earned an LL.M.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

Just look at the increasing amount of tension and war-like conditions currently developing between local communities and their government over water supply in politically unstable areas such as the Middle East. Two proposed additional units in 2010 were turned down due to. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. appeared first on.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. the highest surge in fires since 2010. President Bolsonaro’s reaction, the rise of nationalism, and calls for respecting national sovereignty may signal a new era of international politics where the U.S. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Arctic Law & Policy Institute, explains why. _. Certain states, including Alaska, wrote individualized versions the public trust into their constitutions, laws, and court decisions. The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. 53 (2010). [12]. 37 Ecology L.Q.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. The resulting economic growth also helps create a stronger political base for aggressive expansion of clean energy. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. It was our way of confronting those laws and those systems. They ripple out into the local economy.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2010, satellite image analysis shows an inhabited village in Sadan. While admitting he owned one of the contracted companies, he said he stepped down as its chairman before accepting his political appointment. We do not always have a successful rainy season. We only see rain just about eight times a year, and that is not enough.”.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. At first glance, though, existing laws would seem applicable to the spill at Freedom Industries. However, West Virginia law. A new Senate bill – S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the past decade, as the use of Red Notices by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) member states has increased dramatically, so too have calls for INTERPOL to strengthen its gatekeeping function and guard against national authorities' potential misuse of this powerful tool of international law enforcement cooperation.

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