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Smith Enviorment
DECEMBER 27, 2019
December 27, 2019. A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. For stormwater and other nutrient sources, the law continues to require nutrient offsets in the same hydrologic area. Utilities Commission under laws applied to Duke Energy and other electricity providers.
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.” But he became even more entwined with the industry after becoming AG.
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Corp Watch
JANUARY 23, 2024
Environmental Protection Agency fined Koch $30 million in 2000, the largest civil penalty on a company at the time, for over 300 oil spills from company pipelines in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas including a 12 mile-long oil slick off the coast of Texas. The fine was $30 million.
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 Department of Environmental Protection has imposed penalties totalling over $10.6 Read more here.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The leadoff articles in the series included a commentary from Lisa Heinzerling , a Georgetown University environmental law professor, who crafted the victorious brief in the 2007 Massachusetts v.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 23, 2024
Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.
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