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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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

The Advisory Opinion handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 21 May 2024 is truly remarkable. Its clarification that all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, from any source, constitute marine pollution has potentially far-reaching consequences. under Arts.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ESG goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in buildings. A decade later, in 2011, Maryland was the first state to authorize the use of the IgCC for private and public construction. Live webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?”

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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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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

But there is no place you can go on Earth that has not been modified by humans in some way – and we have been modifying our environments for tens of thousands of years through purposeful burning, species introductions & extinctions, agriculture, and now the rapid release of greenhouse gases causing global climate change.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. Under the proposed rules, the newly covered sources are required to begin collecting emissions data on January 1, 2011 and are required to submit the first annual reports to EPA on March 31, 2012.

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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. The case is pending a decision. Peru : Alvarez et al v.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This breach results from: (i) mixed results in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, (ii) repeated warnings from the European Union since 2011 pointing out that Belgium was lagging behind in climate objectives, and (iii) the lack of effective climate governance. However, the argument of the Brussels Tribunal is fallacious.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. 4th 204, taught that a project’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (and related climate change impacts) are cumulative impacts and constitute a rather “different animal” for CEQA analysis purposes. The journey continues. .

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Subsequently, Japanese greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs for industrial and residential consumers have skyrocketed. The country had planned a massive expansion of its nuclear power program in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with its. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011.

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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. Their contributions continue to add to exemplary and accessible work to the environmental law field.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

.” The Times article focuses on the alarming intersection of three current environmental crises–water supply shortages, groundwater contamination, and excessive greenhouse gas emission levels–that threaten California and other states across the nation. According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. US legislators may follow the lead of Stuttgart, Germany, where exemplary city-greening zoning laws have greatly reduced urban pollution.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2012

McNamara in Albany County dismissed a lawsuit filed in June 2011 by three members of Americans For Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group, that challenged New York’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap and trade program. The case was not brought until 2011. The suit, Thrun v.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Moreno On May 3, 2011, the U.S. The action prolongs EPA’s authority to issue Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permits for Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) emissions in Texas. Following a series of EPA regulatory actions, GHG emissions became subject to PSD requirements as a non-NAAQS pollutant beginning on January 2, 2011.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. Section 15064.4(2)(b) of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

A little background : As one component of its state plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California required its Air Resources Board (CARB) to develop regulations that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels by ten percent by 2020. As part of this effort, CARB adopted the LCFS.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Citing Clover Valley Foundation v.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2024

On Thursday April 4th, the Environmental Protection Agency announced $20 billion of awards from the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) created under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This makes it hard for politicians to get excited about them, and for modelers to point to the greenhouse gases (GHGs) they’ll reduce.

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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). Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al.,

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

As the paper discusses in more detail, proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining requires significant energy consumption and thus produces large quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Researchers have recently estimated that Bitcoin mining is responsible for 65.4 megatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Subpart W rule to cover petroleum and natural gas facilities under the agency’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program. Under the final rule, facilities are required to begin collecting emissions data on January 1, 2011, and the first annual report is due by March 31, 2012.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Second, there is robust scientific evidence of the link between greenhouse gas emissions, rising temperatures, and declining sea ice. 2011) ; Regehr et al. Decision at 101-102.) Less sea ice also means that bears must swim longer distances, which poses a drowning risk to young cubs. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., With fresh eyes, Coulter came to the issue after caring for Jacob and another pediatric cancer patient in 2011. trillion infrastructure package that President Joe Biden signed into law in November included $15 billion to remove lead pipes and $10 billion for dealing with toxic PFAS chemicals.

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

When forests and wetlands are flooded to create a new reservoir, they release a wave of greenhouse gas emissions that initially rival the emissions produced by gas-burning power plants, according to a 2011 study of a Hydro-Quebec reservoir. Detractors argue Hydro-Quebec’s battery is not so green.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In response to new building energy performance standards and other laws requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, tenants are beginning to monetize their GHG emission data, including their utility data. and an absence of well established jurisprudence or new laws, anywhere) about who owns that GHG emission data.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate, a multi-school online forum run by student editors from the nation’s leading environmental law reviews. . Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . emissions from the power sector. [3].

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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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. The waivers in the law reduced farmer costs for managing polluted runoff.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

The justices declined to take up numerous cases in which government entities have sued oil, gas and coal companies, seeking compensation for the climate change-related damage the jurisdictions they claim to have suffered, and which they attribute to the greenhouse gas emissions the companies’ products have released into the atmosphere.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. and non-U.S.

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