PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

While the EPA is not required by law to follow CASAC’s recommendations, it is a really bad look if the agency fails to do so; the EPA administrator is even required to explain the reasoning for deviating from CASAC recommendations. The Obama administration continued this ugly tradition.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

The current barriers to implementing assisted migration include the established laws and attitudes about forest restoration in land management agencies and the logistical constraints of time, money, and personnel needed to plant the trees (Dumroese et al., 2012; Ste-Marie et al., There are several types of assisted migration. Jaquish, B.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Koch’s Web of Influence by John Farrell (Center for Public Integrity, April 2011). The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right (Center for American Progress Action Fund, April 2011). The fine was $30 million. Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For example, in 2014 the agency imposed a civil penalty of $1,230,000—an unprecedented figure in the history of the BSEE civil penalty program. BSEE collected civil penalties in 22 cases in 2009, 26 cases in 2010, 30 cases in 2011, 31 cases in 2012, 42 cases in 2013, 53 cases in 2014, and 42 cases in 2015. 7 (2016). [1]

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CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th City of Sacramento (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Whether SBN’s appeal was moot turned on the application of settled mootness principles, which the Court observed apply to CEQA cases.

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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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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. Superior Court (2014) 59 Cal.4th My August 8, 2014 post on the case can be found here. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 3, 2019

a case concerning Texas partnership law. The dispute between ETP and Enterprise began in 2011, when Enterprise approached ETP about potentially building a crude oil pipeline together. Last week the Texas Supreme Court granted review in Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. ,

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

A review of the literature by John Morrison Download report as a PDF Advocates of hate speech laws believe that because speech is a precursor to action, this in itself is proof of the relationship of cause and effect between hate speech and violence. This is not a surprise. In a tough situation, stress can make you stronger.”

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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). 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al., 2018 , Petersen et al., 2020 , Linquist et al.,

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

According to the study, deforestation related to industrial mining peaked in Indonesia between 2010 and 2014. Floods and landslides continue, as do accidental drownings, with 40 deaths reported in abandoned mining pits since 2011. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent. Local communities are paying a high price.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2014, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of BP on all claims, finding no material fact in dispute about BP’s regulatory compliance. The record in Abbott included a 2011 report by the Department of the Interior which concluded, following a Congressionally-mandated investigation, that “Mr. United States ex rel.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

915 (2011). [3] 117 (2014). [4] For more information about this Article, please contact attorneys Philip Dore ( pdore@liskow.com ) or Cristian Soler ( csoler@liskow.com ). [1] 1] The parties agreed specific personal jurisdiction was not at issue. [2] 2] Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. Brown , 564 U.S. 3] Daimler AG v.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. 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. in Environmental Law.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

on the ESA in 2017 and more than 235 since the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives in 2011. This trend of undercutting the ESA goes directly against the law’s purpose, the Supreme Court’s decisions, and Congress’s intent “to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost.”

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Law of the Lands

JULY 8, 2021

The “servient” owner of the affected land, whether by the terms of a contract or through the Common Law, is generally prohibited from substantially interfering with the rights of the “dominant” owner for whose benefit the easement exists. Other utility easements can have a major impact on land use. They were wrong.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The company’s “bunker buster” bombs were also used by the Israeli military to target the homes of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2014. USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The company’s “bunker buster” bombs were also used by the Israeli military to target the homes of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2014. USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR).

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.”

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

North Coast Rivers Alliance, et al (“NCRA”) and Planning and Conservation League, et al (“PCL”) filed separate actions challenging the project under CEQA and other laws, in which some contractors intervened. 2014) 227 Cal.App.4th 2011) 202 Cal.App.4th Westlands Water Dist. State Lands Com. Citing Save Our Capitol!

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Take for example, 2011's U.S. Iowa 2011).]]. 4, 2014).]]. All such relationships should receive appropriate legal review and documentation to ensure compliance with antitrust laws. These recent cases continue a trend of Antitrust Division enforcement in this industry. VandeBrake in the U.S. N:See United States v.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

EPA further noted in its response, however, that the Agency’s “timely execution of the corrective actions is directly dependent upon the availability of resources.”

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

Following the reorganization of MMS into BSEE, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”), and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue in 2011, the use of OCS sediment resources is now implemented and managed through BOEM’s Marine Minerals Program (“MMP”). Through MMP, and pursuant to the authority granted by 43 U.S.C.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This marked the first restart of a nuclear power plant in Japan since the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ceased all commercial nuclear operations in 2013 in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster in March, 2011. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

In 2014, the legacy problem of lead pipes throughout the nation came to a head in Flint, Michigan, when the city emergency manager’s decision to switch the water source and not treat it to prevent corrosion led to lead leaching from the pipes into the city’s drinking water. . “The By Natasha Blakely , Great Lakes Now – May 3, 2022.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 20, 2021

26, 2011, the two Philadelphia institutions pledged to combine their strengths to mutually expand their global scientific reputations and capabilities. The Environmental Collaboratory will employ the two institutions’ expertise in environmental science, law, health, policy, humanities and engineering. 7 Climate and Year for the Future.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

What would be the legal requirements necessary for a New Platform to qualify for such immunity, based on the current state of the statutory and common law? As compared to cases discussing CDA 230(c)(1), there is relatively limited case law interpreting CDA 230(c)(2). SquareSpace or WordPress) to operate a platform? Zuckerberg, 753 F.3d

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Securing state and federal permits, in 2013 and 2014, CHPE generated thousands of comments to the New York Public Service Commission and a promise of a $117 million trust fund to support environmental restoration. The project, announced in 2010, is backed by scores of elected officials, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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CEQA Developments

APRIL 4, 2022

Since July 2011, Real Party (Lafferty) has been attempting to develop its 32-acre site in the Garaventa Hills with a residential development project consistent with its zoning. County of Fresno (2014) 232 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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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

Indeed, this machine provided a vital glimpse of the fundamental laws of the universe, supplying some of the first evidence that particles and their antiparticle counterparts can behave differently. Making strides and breaking laws. It was shut down in 2011 because it could not compete with the LHC.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Renewables contributed to electricity prices rising six times more in California than in the rest of the US since 2011, the state’s “take-off” year for rapid growth in wind and solar — a price increase that occurred despite the state’s reliance during the same years on persistently-low-priced natural gas.

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