Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Supreme Court tends to get all the attention, but for every Supreme Court opinion on environmental law there are probably fifty opinions in the lower federal courts. Collectively, the lower courts have done fat least as much to shape the law than the Supreme Courts occasional interventions. EPA (2012 ). Sierra Club v.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 12, 2024
Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated.
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National Law Center
JULY 29, 2025
Additionally, the Supreme Court found that when considering whether an agency’s NEPA report complies with the law, reviewing courts should grant “substantial deference” to the agency. National Environmental Policy Act NEPA was signed into law on January 1, 1970.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Northwestern Universitys Transportation Library holds print copies of most EISs prepared before 2012. Much effort goes into reinventing wheels trying to recreate information that was compiled years earlier, or searching for data that only exists in old EISs. That is one reason the NEPA process costs so much and takes so long.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The legislation would prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set protective standards on the development of natural gas that “imposes a standard or condition on well development that conflicts with or exceeds those contained” in state law. Read more here. Cecil Township is in Sen. Bartolotta’s district.
Legal Planet
JULY 31, 2025
Whereas the 2006 FAO report estimated animal agriculture accounted for 18% of global emissions, an FAO report in 2012 estimated it to be 14.5% Guest Contributor Alexander Wood is a rising 2L at UCLA School of Law. There is no doubt the benefits in reducing animal agriculture rival those in reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
National Law Center
JUNE 10, 2025
However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. Share: Recent Posts Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. 5 U.S.C. §
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