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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Sounding the All (Nu)Clear: Restarting Japan’s Nuclear Plants Post-Fukushima Disaster

Vermont Law

While Japan once had one of the world’s most diverse energy portfolios, the loss of its nuclear program has caused a sudden shift towards a fossil-fuel heavy generation industry. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011. While Japan’s 48 nuclear reactors have been idling, the NRA issued. new safety rules.

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It’s High Time to Ban “Monster Fracking” in California

Legal Planet

According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S. So too have the overpumped groundwater aquifers in California’s San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys that belatedly prompted state political leaders to enact California’s first-ever groundwater regulatory program in 2014. oil and gas operators have consumed about 1.5 aquifers.

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Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands

CEQA Developments

City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th While TRPA had “jurisdiction by law” in that it exercises authority over resources affected by the project, it was not a responsible agency. City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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Tackling Agricultural Methane: An Overview of the Science

Legal Planet

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.) 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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Power through the Adirondack Park

Circle of Blue

Financed by one of the world’s richest private equity firms, The Blackstone Group, the CHPE is championed by its supporters as essential to unwind New York’s reliance on carbon-spewing fossil fuel and meet a 2040 target of emissions-free electricity. Kathy Hochul. Emissions-Free Electricity by 2040.