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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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Arnold & Porter's Environmental Litigation Practice Named 2022 'Law Firm of the Year' by Best Lawyers

Arnold Porter

News - Best Lawyers has named Arnold & Porter as a "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Litigation - Environmental" category. The firm also received 43 national rankings and 102 metropolitan rankings (Chicago, DC, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) in the "Best Law Firms" report. Biotechnology Law.

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It’s High Time to Ban “Monster Fracking” in California

Legal Planet

And newly-developed drilling technology allows operators to first drill downward and then horizontally for thousands of feet. Application of these “monster fracking” technologies has in recent years made the United States the largest oil and gas producing nation in the world. According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S.

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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). Connecticut , 564 U. Post, at 20. at 427–428.

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EVs Are at a Turning Point, It May Not Be What You Think

Union of Concerned Scientists

The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5 The market at the time (all of 6,743 California sales in 2011) was dominated by the 73-mile range Nissan Leaf, the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt (with a 35-mile electric range ). There was robust debate about the feasibility of EVs reaching 15 percent market share in CA by 2025.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law. in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D.

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Bad Guys in Energy 2022

Energy & the Law

claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. million in a fraudulent solar power scheme. Punishment: Pending.

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