Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. That means they are a conservative estimate of how much extreme weather costs the United States each year.” A 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I The regulation requiring that water be used would seem to discourage speculative behavior. Conservation groups use them to increase in-stream flows to help native fish.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

He brings this commitment to his role as a Trustee for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington. The Taylor Bridge Fire of 2012 was a critical moment that proved the power of small, local government to act swiftly and deploy help. Paul became a Trustee for TNC in Washington after leaving public office.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. 175 of the pre-Fed.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

Collecting and reusing stormwater can conserve potable water, diminish downstream environmental impacts, and help prevent overflooding of the stormwater system. Stormwater capture plays an important role in the city and county of Los Angeles’ overall plan to conserve and source water locally. Stormwater Capture in L.A.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

The last active well completed fracking on May 2, 2012. These fluids were stored in onsite pits for over nine months after the completion of drilling, in violation of site restoration regulations,” according to the 2017 consent order and agreement with Greylock. Read more here.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 6, 2016

In New York and Pennsylvania, anti-fracking groups have obtained a statewide ban on fracking and the allowance of local authority to regulate fracking, respectively. In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. City of Fort Collins v. In 2014, St.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Moreno On August 13, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) disapproval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) dealing with the state’s Flexible Permits program. 13, 2012) ( quoting in part from 42 U.S.C. State of Texas v. 7410(a)(1).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times | February 7, 2018 New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade, require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to children. Pakistan: Poisoning The Well? Who's to blame?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times | February 7, 2018 New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade, require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to children. Pakistan: Poisoning The Well? Who's to blame?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

It was drilled by Atlas from 2011 to 2012. billion, a conservative number. “An example of one of these wells-- Diversified gas and oil is identified as the current owner of well number 129-28129 which is a frack well on the banks of the Youghiogheny River just off of Route 70,” said Jain. “ Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

That uncertainty is one reason some states are hesitant to include tribes in river negotiations, said Becky Mitchell, the director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Becky Mitchell, the director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, said states should have a “back and forth” discussion instead of dictating terms.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Additionally, ITLOS can also apply rules of reference , referred to as “generally recognized international rules and standards” or “global rules and standards,” which exist in other sources of law incorporated into UNCLOS by reference ( see, e.g., Articles 207-2012 UNCLOS ). These rules are, in effect, binding norms incorporated into UNCLOS.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Additionally, increasing the importance of ‘modernising’ existing legislation over producing new legislation, raised alarm among civil society , afraid that the better regulation/modernisation agenda was in fact a way to pursue policy dismantling. But by listing it as Vella’s first priority, Juncker dramatically increased its importance.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Some environmentalists also look favorably upon seawater desalination; they want to conserve the Earth’s freshwater for other species and other beneficial use. One can also imagine more stringent regulations being proposed regarding ocean and coastal ecosystems as these environmental impacts are studied more. 4th 557 (2012).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In a March 2012 New York Law Journal article, [2] CCCL Director Michael Gerrard noted that consideration of the impacts of climate change and adaptation to those impacts was “spotty at best” in NEPA EIS’s, and that only a “small handful” of SEQRA EIS’s addressed those issues. 2012 CEQR Technical Manual , at 18-2. Cornell USA Tech.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For the past four centuries, legal criteria to regulate the environment and satisfy diverse interests have emerged as part of the environmental movement. As such, the Center is calling for regulations requiring the use of the best available science and technology when implementing wildlife control. appeared first on.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Rodale Institute My earlier example of soil ecology does not do justice to what functions soil organisms provide; a more comprehensive list includes improvement of soil fertility via nutrient transformation, soil aggregation, pathogen suppression, carbon storage, biofilm formation, water cycling, and temperature regulation 2.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The most compelling interventions are those which not only inhibit methane emissions but also conserve expensive or ecologically vital resources; remain effective in the long term; can achieve economic scale; improve animal or crop productivity and nutritional value; and lack harmful health or environmental side effects. 2012 , Bayat et al.,

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cal-Am’s Multi-Component, Cross-Jurisdictional Water Supply Project Cal-Am is a CPUC-regulated investor-owned water utility that supplies water to much of the Monterey Peninsula, a semi-arid area prone to frequent drought conditions that is heavily reliant on historically over drafted groundwater aquifers for its water supply.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That’s because the region’s ongoing groundwater woes are at least two decades in the making, exacerbated in part by the very federal programs meant to conserve water in the area, The Counter has found. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Environmental Groups Challenged Delay in Enforcement of Landfill Methane Regulations. 16-1-01001-5 (Wash. verdict June 7, 2017; sentencing June 23, 2017).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Wilson’s group wants to encourage more private investment by offering carrots. But he said it’s only a first step.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 2012: “In an increasingly carbon- constrained world, our existing environmental laws and regulatory process no longer achieve their underlying goals of long-term ecosystem conservation. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . Indeed, at a Sept. rojects to reduce fossil fuel consumption.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

City and County of San Francisco (2012) 208 Cal.App.4th City of Newport Beach (2012) 211 Cal.App.4th It first asks whether a project is consistent with the City’s land use and zoning regulations or would otherwise result in equivalent or fewer GHG emissions than consistent projects. Citing and discussing Robinson v.

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

By 2012, 20 to 25 states had developed state climate plans. And states may have rulemaking authority to adopt energy efficiency building codes like the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), as well as appliance codes comparable to California’s requirements – and much more. the Departments of Interior and Energy).

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4]

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

Clair River Corridor is just one place where state regulators are pushing towns to consolidate water systems for greater efficiency as aging, costly plants near their expiration date. Michigan regulators also lack almost any authority to oversee water systems’ financial health. . Other examples include: . and nearly 1,400 in Michigan.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times | February 7, 2018 New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade, require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to children. Pakistan: Poisoning The Well? Who's to blame?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2012, he directed the Academy’s participation in the William Penn Foundation’s watershed protection planning, resulting in the launch of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative. He then developed and managed the Academy’s Town Square program and led the Academy’s involvement in the Urban Sustainability Forum. Join Special Events Near You!

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Yaw, Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, said he was instrumental in helping create legislation establishing the Marcellus Shale Impact Fee, now known as Act 13 of 2012. Since its inception, the impact fee has generated more than $2.5 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8%

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Labor Day is a good time to talk about an important topic: the impact of environmental regulation on jobs. In support of his deregulation campaign, President Trump promised to “cancel every needless job-killing regulation and put a moratorium on new regulations until our economy gets back on its feet.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

11] Reducing methane emissions by least 65% below 2012 levels – either through Congressional Legislation or regulation – is necessary to sufficiently safeguard our children’s health from pollution and the growing threats of climate change. This includes actual third-party bonding per permit – not self or blanket bonding.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court was not persuaded by the plaintiffs’ contention that the FWS had concluded that conservation projects would outpace climate change effects on the trout or by the argument that the FWS erred by abandoning a finding in its 2008 determination that climate change constituted a “severe” threat to the trout that exacerbates other threats.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 11, 2014

Both federal and state authorities can regulate drone technology. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) generally regulates all domestic aircraft matters. of 2012 sought to regulate drone technology. Although the FAA and Congress have set out laws regulating drones, the states are passing broader drone regulations.

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