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PUC Adopts Final Regulations Strengthening Operation, Construction Requirements For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines

PA Environment Daily

including the Mariner East Pipelines) and Laurel Pipe Line – and the new HVL regulations would apply to them, as well as any other future intrastate HVL public utilities. Additionally, there are no retroactive design or construction regulations for those pipeline facilities that exist when the rule is made effective by operation of law.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action.

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Corona and Energy Law

Energy and Climate Law

The coronavirus (COVID-19) keeps affecting all areas of life and also impacts upon energy law. This blog entry provides a first overview of energy law measures that selected European countries (Germany and the Netherlands) have taken to tackle the energy-related repercussions of the corona-crisis.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990.

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NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater, Other Waste

PA Environment Daily

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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RELDI Files Amicus Brief in Support of New York State’s Renewable Energy Siting Regulations

Law Columbia

On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) , in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable energy projects. Docket Nos.

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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). Regulating power plant emissions is a complex undertaking. Post, at 20.