Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

Background Immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were shut down. One of these was the abovementioned Guideline established in 2012. For the background on climate lawsuits in Japan as a whole, please refer to the previous blog , and for the Kobe cases, please refer to this blog.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. County of Alameda (2012) 54 Cal.4th My June 18, 2012 post on the case can be found here. Ten years and 358 blog posts later, it continues to be a challenging and rewarding task. The Supreme Court, in Tomlinson v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

Department of Interior in December for the well plugging funds authorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It was drilled by Atlas from 2011 to 2012. Jain made these comments at the May 18 DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting and in a subsequent interview. Read more here.] It would cost taxpayers over $3.3

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Law of the Lands

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The new Canadian Energy Regulator Act , which replaces the National Energy Board Act , came into force on August 28, 2019. With that, the 60-year old National Energy Board (“NEB”) is no more; Canada’s energy regulator will now be known as the “Canadian Energy Regulator” or “CER”. The NEB approved both projects.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

But, an even bigger challenge remains—regulation of chicken litter dumped into the Bay by the Delmarva Peninsula’s poultry industry. The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers.

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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. Feedstock consumption for bio-based diesel fuel produced in the US has more than doubled since 2012 and exceeded 11 MMT in 2022. Source USDA Oil crops yearbook.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011. The 2028 deadline proposed in the less stringent alternative is more realistic, and is consistent with timelines under other federal regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5 In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. Just look at the past 10+ years. When you’re falling behind, is slowing down really the right answer?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since the country began regulating abandoned mines in 1977 under the Abandoned Mine Land program, the country spent $5 billion, and about $400 million in the Illinois basin, to repair clogged and polluted streams, recontour steep highwalls, and reforest denuded landscapes. For the last 45 years, the U.S. A regular tug-of-war ensued.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). Innovative regulation and incentive programs can facilitate the development and implementation of many of these methods, and these will be explored in a future blog post. 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al.,

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Last Thursday, in a case filed in 2012 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a jury found that Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn defamed Michael Mann, awarding Mann $1 in compensatory damages from each and punitive damages of $1,000 from Simberg and $1 Million from Steyn. Unfortunately, this decade plus long case (.

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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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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

We also comment on post-Brexit law enforcement, and the ongoing strains on the justice system as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it failed to monitor and detect suspicious activity by a customer depositing £365 million between November 2011 and October 2016.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

Moreno On August 16, 2012, EPA published a new rule that revises the NESHAP Subpart HH standards for the oil and gas industry. The Final Rule wassigned on April 17, 2012, but publication in the Federal Register did not occur until August 16, 2012, making the rule effective on October 15, 2012. 16, 2012.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million; and in FY 2024-25 Shell will get another $65 million-- the maximum amount available by law. The law authorized the tax credit for the next 16 years through December 31, 2042 when the tax credit expires. So far, the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County is scheduled to receive a total of $130.9 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion. Extensive details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. Also, $25,189,477 will be distributed to state agencies, as specified by Act 13.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

As of 2011, after three years of review, the State Department had not approved TC’s application for a cross-border permit. Then, in December 2011, Congress passed an Act [4] requiring the President to issue the permit within 60 days, unless the President found that doing so would not serve the national interest.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

As of 2011, after three years of review, the State Department had not approved TC’s application for a cross-border permit. Then, in December 2011, Congress passed an Act [4] requiring the President to issue the permit within 60 days, unless the President found that doing so would not serve the national interest.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate, a multi-school online forum run by student editors from the nation’s leading environmental law reviews. . Through independent regulations, each state’s CO. After the 2012 program review, RGGI lowered the cap by 45 percent between 2014 and 2020. [46].

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Bush EPA denies waiver to allow California to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars. EPA approves waiver for California to regulate CO2 from new cars. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

2012) ; Cal. The opinion, known as the Bernhardt Memorandum , states that project-specific GHG emissions could not pass the “may affect” test and thus GHG emissions were “not subject to consultation under the ESA and its implementing regulations.” 2011) ; Regehr et al. See Karuk Tribe of California v. USFS (9th Cir.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

By contrast, the Obama administration’s proposed carbon regulation of the power sector, the “Clean Power Plan,” proposed emissions reductions of 32 percent — by 2030. In May, a California civil rights coalition filed a lawsuit against the state to prevent implementation of climate law aimed at reducing driving.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism! Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Try explaining that to your new Peruvian sister-in-law. 6, 2012). [7]. In the chapter on climate change, the CEI calls for Congress to repeal or defund virtually every federal effort enacted by Obama to target climate change, ranging from the ability of the EPA to regulate CO. 2, 2014). [8]. Good Bye to the EPA as We Know It?

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