Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. 410 (2011). Connecticut , 564 U. Post, at 20. That description of the holding in AEP v.

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. When Canada’s federal government first started talking about legislation to support a just transition – I must admit, I was hopeful.

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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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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. The statutes do not require direct notice to either the local government or to owners of property along the affected shoreline. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 12, DEP, DCNR and many guests dedicated the Law Library Conference Room in the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to Franklin Kury, the legislative author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment to the state Constitution. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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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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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Department of Justice, will give the first David Sive Memorial Lecture on Environmental Law at Columbia Law School on Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m. His topic will be “The Arc of Environmental Law and the U.S. Department of Justice.” Senate on December 16, 2014. Further information is available here.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Legal scholars called the targeting of essential infrastructure a violation of international law. But, in his mind, they can distract from the grinding work of establishing new policies and laws to redirect society. “If government ordered the seven states to correct a longstanding misalignment of water supply and demand.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

County of Madera (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th In Chawanakee , the court recognized that later-enacted Government Code section 65996 limited the analysis and mitigation of impacts on school facilities by allowing and capping developer impact fees. The Court’s analysis was guided by cases such as Goleta Union School District v.

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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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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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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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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

A decade later, in 2011, Maryland was the first state to authorize the use of the IgCC for private and public construction. It is also expected that local governments throughout the State will adopt local amendments to the 2021 IgCC as they adopt it as part of their usual building code cycle of triennial code adoption process.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

But under current law, Michigan regulators have little ability to force local communities to engage in such partnerships. Some water advocates have called for more financial help from state and federal governments. There’s no other way to do it,” he said. More state and federal assistance. It can pay for the loan,” Adriaens said.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2015, the NGO Klimaatzaak and thousands of concerned citizens as co-plaintiffs initiated a judicial procedure against four Belgian governments—the federal government and the regional governments of Wallonia, Brussels, and Flanders—before the Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels. Facts, procedure, judgment.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 13, 2023

The Australian government has issued draft Environmental and Sustainability Guidance describing the obligations under Australian consumer law which businesses must comply with when making environmental and sustainability claims.

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Washington Nature

JULY 20, 2023

For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space. What started as a vision for better floodplain governance has grown into an ambitious public-private partnership. SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0,

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2017

At the Fourth Annual Liskow & Lewis Energy Law Lecture, Professor Jim Rossi of Vanderbilt Law delivered a presentation entitled “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation.” Natural gas pipelines have historically been governed by federal law since the passing of the Natural Gas Act of 1938.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Instead, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition then pointed out a Fiscal Code bill signed into law on July 2, 2012 addressing only conventional oil and gas well bonding set bonding amounts for conventional wells retroactive to April 16, 2012. The petition submitted to the EQB says average well plugging costs from 2011 through 2020 for unconventional wells was about $83,000.

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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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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 3, 2022

In a lengthy, but mostly unpublished, opinion filed December 16, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting a petitioner group’s CEQA, Planning and Zoning Law, and procedural due process/fair hearing challenges to the City of San Diego’s approval of a four-lane road connecting existing developments.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Please contact Arthur F.

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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. 4th 439, clarified the rules governing CEQA’s “environmental baseline,” the analytical construct intended to represent the existing physical conditions in the project’s vicinity against which a project’s environmental impacts are measured.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

On September 22, 2022, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School co-hosted a Climate Week NYC webinar on “Siting Renewables in New York: Ambitious Climate Goals, a New Siting Process, and How It Is Going.” Law §§ 66-p(2)(a), (b). Law § 75-0107(1)(b). Law § 94-c(1).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 28, 2021

The SEC found that this language could impede whistleblower reporting, and thus undermined the purpose of the whistleblower regulations, which are intended to encourage individuals to report possible securities laws violations to the Commission. Rule 21F-17 went into effect in August 2011. ” 17 C.F.R. §§ 240.21F-17(a).

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