CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

County of Fresno (2018) 6 Cal.8 County of San Diego (2018) 27 Cal.App.5 Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. 8 th 502, why it was not feasible to correlate the level of the project’s air emissions to specific human health impacts from the project.

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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. The bill creates a task force to report back to the legislature in February 2020 on rules to replace those amended in 2018.

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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. Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In its first 100 days in office, the Biden-Harris Administration has already proposed or passed sweeping reforms in federal laws and policies, with many more campaign promises still in process. Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Arnold & Porter, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2016–2018). Christopher J.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018).

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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. 1) ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 1, 2023, adopt by regulation the 2018 International Green Construction Code ; AND . (2) Live webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?” the Department [ may ] SHALL: . (1)

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. In 2011, Congress amended Section 1447(d) to include federal officer removal grounds as a second exception to the general prohibition on appealing remand orders.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In August 2018, dry natural gas production from the Haynesville shale averaged 6.774 billion cubic feet per day, which is the highest daily Haynesville production average since September 2012 when production averaged 6.962 billion cubic feet per day. August 2018 was not an anomaly. El Paso E & P Co. , El Paso E & P Co. ,

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

From 2018 to 2021, hunters illegally killed at least 2,707 rhinos. As of 2018, 96% of all mammal biomass was human or livestock for humans. T]he Javan rhino was confirmed extinct from the Cat Loc part of the Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam in October 2011.” Poachers have helped decimate various animal and fish populations.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. In 2011, Congress amended Section 1447(d) to include federal officer removal grounds as a second exception to the general prohibition on appealing remand orders.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

Formed in 2011, the OWB was established one year after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) amended the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) by, among other things, adopting Section 21F. Background. The Commission has relatively straightforward procedures for claiming a whistleblower award.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

Department of Interior in December for the well plugging funds authorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It was drilled by Atlas from 2011 to 2012. According to DEP's records its last drop of gas was pulled out in mid 2017 and by late summer 2018 it had been sold to Diversified. “In Read more here.] Read more here.]

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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. County of Fresno (2018) 6 Cal.5th My December 28, 2018 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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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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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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Law of the Lands

MAY 30, 2018

A Superior Court case heard in April, 2018 involved rural neighbours and the unauthorized removal of trees. The trees had been removed by T in February, 2011. Neighbour O sold trees on his property to the owner of a local sawmill, T. The Court rejected the limitation period defence.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

However, in 2019 “only” 1,154 sq km of land was deforested in Indonesia as a result of human activities, the lowest in two decades and a 75% decrease from 2018, which saw 4,624 sq km of loss. Floods and landslides continue, as do accidental drownings, with 40 deaths reported in abandoned mining pits since 2011.

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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. Colombia : Future Generations v. Ministry of the Environment.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. If you ask me what is the most important action we should take, it is to have this law,” she said during one of the legislative sessions.

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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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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2011, Dr. Mohammed Islam, a tenured professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM received an additional appointment to UM’s medical school, for which he executed an employment agreement. In 2018, Omni sued Apple in the Eastern District of Texas, asserting patent infringement. at 18-20.]]. Background.

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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.

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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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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

Following certification of its 2018 Final EIR (“FEIR”), which found the project would not have a significant environmental impact, DWR approved the contract amendments and filed a validation action in which various public agencies filed answers (both opposing and in support of validation). 2011) 202 Cal.App.4th State Lands Com.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. of all undergraduate students in 2018, but only 1.7%

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Loyalsock Watershed is classified by DEP as an Exceptional Value stream whose water quality must be protected by law, with no degradation. The Creek was also named by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year and called a “timeless treasure.” Read more here.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

On April 20, 2018, it reversed a decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims (“Claims Court”), which had held the U.S. After a bench trial in late 2011, the Claims Court held that a temporary taking had occurred. Army Corps of Engineers liable under the Tucker Act for flood damage to the Plaintiffs’ properties.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Thus did the “Berlin Mandate” of 1995 (adopted at COP1) lead to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” of 2011 (adopted at COP17) lead to the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. Of course, the COP also decides where future meetings will be held.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

More Background Since March 2011, the state Department of Health has been attempting to document health complaints of residents initially in unconventional oil and gas drilling areas and maintains a Health Complaints Registry. Click Here for a copy of the Plan. 27 Released 1.1

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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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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. By Jessica Wentz. GHG Emissions Analysis.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

But at least under Delaware law, the WeWork decision expanded the applicability of a test that was originally intended for evaluating privilege in the context of employer-employee disputes where the employee uses a work email address for communicating with his or her personal attorney. More recently, the 2018 decision In re CBS Corp.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the past decade, as the use of Red Notices by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) member states has increased dramatically, so too have calls for INTERPOL to strengthen its gatekeeping function and guard against national authorities' potential misuse of this powerful tool of international law enforcement cooperation.

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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). 2018 , Petersen et al., 2020 , Haque, 2018 , Vijn et al., 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2018 , Petersen et al., Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al.,

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

Then once again in 2011, the state stepped in with an emergency manager when Flint faced a $19.1 A study by the University of Michigan found that from 1980 to 2018, water costs have roughly doubled in the state of Michigan. The EPA’s latest survey of drinking water infrastructure needs , released in 2018, estimated that “$472.6

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

As the administrator since 2018 of EGLE’s water infrastructure financing section, the unit that oversees the SRFs in Michigan, Green is in a position to guide decisions that will influence the quality of the state’s water systems as communities look to reverse the decades-long decline in fundamental public works. .

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