Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2023

On Thursday, March 2, 2023, California’s principal energy agencies – the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) – held a first-of-its-kind, joint en banc hearing at Cal Poly Humboldt with Tribal government leaders and all 10 commissioners of the CEC and CPUC.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. January 13, 2011: the RRC rescinds its no-harm letter. + February 17, 2011: TCEQ issues an order approving the application. April 2, 2011: TCEQ reissues the order. The litigation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

AB 2097 (Friedman) builds on work dating back to 2011 (I blogged about then-Assm. Otherwise, too many local governments have not gotten the memo that California’s climate and equity goals require more housing near transit and reduced need for residents to drive vehicles. But cities and counties have mostly lost that fight.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 I had to figure out how to bridge the silos that existed in our society – between the renewable energy sector, climate organizations, government policy-makers, project financers, utilities, labour, engineers – the list goes on.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Water governance institutions of the past are not well-equipped to respond to the rapidly changing effects of climate change,” said Heikkila, the co-director of the Center for Policy and Democracy at the University of Colorado Denver. The time for more collective action at all scales of governance is here,” she said.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

On June 20, the Public Utility Commission announced the distribution of a record $278,881,450 in Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee revenue to local governments and a variety of state programs. County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $157,349,593 for the 2022 reporting year.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. 410 (2011). After all, EPA had never regulated in that manner, despite having issued many prior rules governing power plants under Section 111. I will leave to others a discussion of “major question doctrine” and other aspects of the West Virginia case. Now, in West Virginia v. Connecticut , 564 U.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The bot has been put together by Environmental Defence to take publicly-available information out of a complicated government website and make it more accessible for everyone. The bot automatically posts on Twitter all recent instances of oil and gas companies lobbying politicians in the Canadian government. So not all lobbying is bad.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. To explore the intersection of digitalization and environmental governance and the power dynamics that are at play, I interviewed three social scientists on the matter. The Belizean government is another strong proponent of SMART, Stinson claims.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance. The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. After the Fiúkushima incident the government decided to speed-up the phase out and set 2022 as an end-date.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Members of Congress from Oregon are asking the federal government to declare an emergency declaration as the state’s salmon population continues to die off in warming waters. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Climate catastrophes are threatening the rivers Amazonian Indigenous tribes depend on. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. According to a letter from U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Austin first adopted the goal, which envisions diverting 90% of trash from landfills by 2040, in its comprehensive plan in 2011. Austin, Texas, adopted a new plan this month to renew efforts to help the city achieve its goal of zero waste by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. This study , and a recent report from the Government Accountability Office—the non-partisan congressional watchdog agency—found that roughly a third of RMP facilities are at increased risk from climate impacts.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Dabelko (eds.).

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

The government of the Netherlands, is concerned about the reliability of all energy grids and wants to ensure they are still being maintained and can work as ususal.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

Residents in a major neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria lack access to clean drinking water and say their government has abandoned them. Lagos Neighborhood Lacks Clean Water and Proper Infrastructure After Years of Neglect from Federal Government. We don’t have water to drink and we wonder if we have a government,” he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

million BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute spent lobbying the federal government since 2011, the vast majority was directed at obtaining tax breaks, while almost nothing was spent on carbon pricing legislation, which the companies publicly claim to support.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

By 2030 the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has set targets that aim to halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to 2000 levels. But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Japan is the fifth-largest CO2 emitter in the world and has committed to being carbon-neutral by 2050.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Raiders case poses the question of “whether a sports league can regulate the number of teams it governs and who has standing to challenge its decisions,” he told Daily Journal.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

EPA’s current policy on tribal consultation is set forth in the May 4, 2011 “EPA Policy on Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribes.” Administrator Regan’s pledge to improve the consultation process suggests substantive changes to EPA’s 2011 Consultation Policy may be in the works.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Tom also served as a liaison to CCC’s government relations team, which works to guide policymakers on copyright modernization and related topics. In 2011, Tom founded and still consults for Smarter Learning , an advisory for STM publishers and publishing start-ups on content strategy, business development, and contract negotiation.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If these reactors were kept in operation, a complete exit from coal would be possible by 2028, ten years earlier than Angela Merkel’s government has planned. As we recently reported, none of the parties seeking to form the next government is likely to go down the nuclear route. Climate neutrality is far off.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2022

Photo by NASA of 2011 algae bloom, the worst Lake Erie had experienced in decades. In the most recent Canada-Ontario Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health, the government identified priority watersheds where phosphorus management plans are most needed. A complex issue but not without solutions or hope. .

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

Such a policy may have prevented Benton Charter Township’s 2011 secession from the Benton Harbor water system — a move that financially hobbled Benton Harbor’s water revenue, and left Berrien County with three separate treatment facilities within a 5-mile area. More state and federal assistance. It can pay for the loan,” Adriaens said.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. Companies put their own remediation programs on hold while they waited for the government to pay to clean up their mess.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

By granting certiorari and hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision remanding the suit to state court after rejecting the energy companies’ contention that they were acting as federal officers pursuant to historical contracts with the federal government.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It Jatam’s 2021 report reveals that coal permits issued by local and central governments cover 72,000 sq km of East Kalimantan’s 127,000 sq km, or 70% of the province. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003). Bayer contracts with the U.S. For more details, click on the links.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Local, regional, and state governments, water managers and decisionmakers all need to concern themselves with how and whether residents perceive climate risks. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

He was the author and lead advocate for the environmental amendment to the state constitution that declares a right to a clean environment by the people and makes the state government the trustee of the public natural resources. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

By granting certiorari and hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision remanding the suit to state court after rejecting the energy companies’ contention that they were acting as federal officers pursuant to historical contracts with the federal government.

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