HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

2019; Pedlar et al., The current barriers to implementing assisted migration include the established laws and attitudes about forest restoration in land management agencies and the logistical constraints of time, money, and personnel needed to plant the trees (Dumroese et al., 2012; Ste-Marie et al., 2012; Ste-Marie et al.,

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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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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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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost more forest to mining than any other tropical country, with coal extraction the main driver, the first ever biome-wide assessment has found. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. A coal mine in Tenggarong, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo credit: Afriadi Hikmal / Alamy.

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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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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil law cases. Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002).

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 17, 2019

In 2011, Congress amended § 1442 to allow removal of a state suit against a federal officer “for or relating to any act under color of such office.” Under that rule, a 3-member panel may not overturn a prior panel “absent an intervening change in law, such as by statutory amendment, or the Supreme Court, or the en banc Court.”

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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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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Following project approval, the Regents filed a notice of determination (NOD) on May 17, 2019, identifying American Campus Communities, American Campus Communities Services, Inc., The 2011 statutory amendments to Public Resources Code § 21167.6.5 American Campus Communities Partnership, L.P. While Public Resources Code § 21167.6.5(d)

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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

Originally published in Danish in 2019, the English version of Shell Beach is a self-published book that Grimstrup released this year. Grimstrup does away with the question of whether he is chasing ghosts in little more than a sentence, arguing that the laws of nature seem to have a minimal length scale and that settles the case.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Passcode: 546304 By Telephone: (346) 248-7799 (Toll Free) Meeting ID: 916 1591 2270 Background The Pennsylvania Science Standards have been under revision since September of 2019. Ridge through an Executive Order in 1996 and then in law by Act 71 of 2008. Funding for the Center was eliminated in 2011.

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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. She was appointed by the outgoing government of Sebastián Piñera as a coordinator of the scientific advisory committee for COP25, which was originally due to be hosted in Chile in 2019.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). After that tentative ruling was issued, but prior to the merits hearing, the City submitted a declaration as to water diversions to the leased properties in 2019 (6.6 Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law.

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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. City of San Diego (2019) 7 Cal.5th City of San Diego (2019) 7 Cal.5th My August 21, 2019 post on the case can be found here. Ten years and 358 blog posts later, it continues to be a challenging and rewarding task.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

This case began in 2011 when ETP and Enterprise explored the possibility of partnering to modify and extend, or construct anew, a pipeline to transport oil southbound from Cushing, Oklahoma. The Court of Appeal reversed, and the Texas Supreme Court heard argument in the case on October 8, 2019. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P.,

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 3, 2019

a case concerning Texas partnership law. The dispute between ETP and Enterprise began in 2011, when Enterprise approached ETP about potentially building a crude oil pipeline together. Oral argument before the Texas Supreme Court is scheduled for October 8, 2019. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. ,

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Vermont Law

MAY 20, 2021

The project never caught any traction and began to wind down in 2011, finally ceasing operation in the 2016. 2019-2023 laying out its aggressive growth blueprint over the current four year period. Clugston is a professor of law at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. implementation. WIPO’s website. ,

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2018

However, if the current trend continues, the Haynesville could approach its prior peak production average in early 2019. The chart below depicts Haynesville shale dry natural gas production averages from January 2009 to August 2018 in billion cubic feet per day. El Paso E & P Co. , Alyce Gaines Johnson Special Trust v.

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Water Research & Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Prior to transitioning to full-time employment at PTW in 2019, Dr. Landon was a Research Program Manager at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research, where he lead or helped to lead many state and federal research projects. Funny enough, I nearly pursued a career as a lawyer, specifically in the area of patent law.

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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. 85412 (March 26, 2019).]]. Background. § 78u-6(a)(1); 17 C.F.R. Annual Training.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Take for example, 2011's U.S. Iowa 2011).]]. The PCSF was established in November 2019, as an interagency partnership led by the Antitrust Division and comprised of U.S. 5, 2019).]]. All such relationships should receive appropriate legal review and documentation to ensure compliance with antitrust laws.

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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). Law § 11-0535-c.

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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. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice. Apple Inc. , Omni Medsci v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since 2016, EPA has generally shown restraint in setting targets for biodiesel and related fuels, insofar as the law allows, and biodiesel consumption has actually fallen. Production capacity grew by 400 percent between 2019 and 2022 and based on announced and planned projects, it could double again by the end of 2024.

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Law of the Lands

DECEMBER 16, 2019

AS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE RURAL VOICE : The Federal Government’s Bill C-69, legislation “to modernize” the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, was passed by Parliament and received Royal Assent in June, 2019. Later the flow was reversed to carry oil from east to west.

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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. Removing bias.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

The DEIR was circulated September 9, 2019. The Court first held, as a matter of law exercising de novo review, that the EIR failed to contain the “accurate, stable, and finite project description” required by CEQA and necessary for an intelligent evaluation of a project’s impacts. City and County of San Francisco (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

29, 2021); Press Release, SAP Resolves Allegations of Export Control Law Violations with $3.29 25, 2019).]] SAP did not adequately investigate whistleblower allegations it received between approximately July 2011 to March 2016 that claimed SAP software had been sold to Iranian front companies registered in UAE, Turkey and Malaysia.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2009

billion from 2011 to 2019. The Secretary’s comments, made when speaking to the Senate Finance Committee on the proposed budget, reinforced the Obama administration’s stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources and rely less on traditional fossil fuels.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

Specifically, EPA promised to: Develop a strategy for improving oil and gas sector emissions data, emissions factors, and measurement techniques by the first quarter of 2014, and begin implementing that strategy by the third quarter of 2014; Finalize revised emissions factors development procedures for data collected from traditional test methods by (..)

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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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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. 2019 WL 402332 (Del. 2011 WL 532011 (Del.

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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). Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al., 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., References (may be paywall-restricted) . 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al.,

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2024

Connecticut created the first American green bank in 2011, then New York in 2013, followed by many other states and municipalities largely with the help of GGRF awardee Coalition for Green Capital. The idea has come a long way fast.

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