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Catch 22 at the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

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). 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2).

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Recap of 2023 CEQA Amendments Now In Effect

CEQA Developments

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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$18 billion to fossil fuels: Breaking Down the Numbers

Enviromental Defense

You can find the complete list of federal supports announced in 2020 in the report, but here are the major categories we were able to track. million for other categories of support to fossil fuels. Cleaning up is the law. How did we get to ~$18 billion? In 2020, the only measure included in our report was $2.37

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Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects

PA Environment Daily

The Loyalsock Watershed is classified by DEP as an Exceptional Value stream whose water quality must be protected by law, with no degradation. It's just simply a category into which they put species that are at risk,” said Dr. Petokas. “So Read more here.

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Siting Renewables in New York: Updates from ORES Executive Director Houtan Moaveni and Suggestions from Panelists on How to Further Improve the New Siting Process

Law Columbia

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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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

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. Ninth Circuit Reinstated Listing of Bearded Seal as Threatened Based on Climate Change Projections. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Pritzker , Nos.

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Two China Based Companies Banned as a Result of Forced Labor

Greenbuilding Law

Department of Homeland Security added two People’s Republic of China based companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list. billion under the UFLPA, the single largest category of which have been electronics, and as we blogged some weeks ago, More Than 1,000 Shipments of Solar Panels Seized at the Border.