Law and Environment

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Stamford, CT, USA – November 18, 2012: “The Lorax” balloon is one of the many hot air balloons participating in the city of Stamford annual “Thanksgiving Day Parade” held in the downtown area of the city. first appeared on Law and the Environment. And clarity is definitely the right word here.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. Similarly, several authors have argued that this obligation predates the Convention, with UNCLOS simply codifying an existing customary law rule ( e.g. , Corfu Channel Case , p.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I had the good fortune to meet Ryan back in 2012, when UC Berkeley Law and UCLA Law convened a group of experts (including Ryan) on ways that California could dramatically scale up the sale of battery electric vehicles by 2025, now just a few short years away. Ryan was a major contributor to that report.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. The cuts are measured from a 2010-2012 baseline. The law also contains provisions addressing wages and benefits for workers on renewable energy projects.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. The proposed amendments relied on the 1999 MNDs and 2012 addendum, with no additional CEQA review or mitigation deemed necessary by the County. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.”

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2023

” Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law DOI: 10.1080/02646811.2023.2256593 Abstract: It has been over a decade since the article that kickstarted energy justice research was published in 2012. Heffron (2023) “Energy justice – the triumvirate of tenets revisited and revised.”

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In his first proposed budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson is seeking to establish an environmental department at City Hall, though it’s initially a small staff expansion of an existing office that would not enforce pollution laws.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2 Starting with stakeholders.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2012-N06 (2012), [hereinafter NTL 2012-N06]. NTL 2012 N-06, 3. NTL 2012 N-06, 5. NTL 2012-N06, at 28 (emphasis added). By Sarah Y. Dicharry and Robert E. 30 CFR 254.23. Also, 30 CFR 254.23(g) 30 CFR 254.23(g)(2). For instance, 30 CFR 254.26

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

Once again, we’re teaming up with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and headed to court this week to protect this important environmental law from the Government of Alberta’s efforts to strike it down. That’s why we’re in court defending this law. They even compared the law to the climate crisis.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 26, 2019

In November 2012, after many years of persevering, Amendment 64 passed. Colorado’s expansive legal framework surrounding cannabis use and cultivation should be a model for other states when enacting cannabis laws. Bio: I am a second-year law student at Vermont Law School. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and states were preempted from “prescribing and/or enforcing safety standards and practices for interstate natural gas pipeline or storage facilities” by federal law. Wells serving these fields are regulated as conventional oil and gas wells by DEP.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 8, 2024

As noted in a recent farmdocdaily post “ the CBO baseline, combined with budget laws and procedures, requires the [House and Senate] agricultural committees to remain inside the spending projections or find offsets from other areas within their jurisdiction to offset 10-year cost projections of any changes. ” In 2012, CBO projected $113.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2024

In 1977, he graduated from Capital University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude. As a law student, he authored a paper on land development after a tornado had destroyed the small town of Zenia, Ohio. This research began his keen interest in real estate law. In 2012, WPC v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition said Section 3225(a)(1) Act 13 of 2012 set bond amounts for oil and gas wells, but did not differentiate between conventional and unconventional wells. The operative language links these Fiscal Code provisions to Section 3225(a)(1) of Act 13 of 2012 and says-- “Section 1606-E. Conventional oil and gas well bonding. (a)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. Wildfire suppression expenditures in California from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2022, in million U.S. Source: Statista 2023.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Kyoto Protocol focused on reducing emissions and increasing contributions from wealthier nations, setting a goal of overall emissions reductions of 5 percent below 1990 by 2012. first appeared on Law and the Environment. The post Climate Policy at 30: Glasgow Climate Pact.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A 2015 law, AB197, requires that the scoping plan discuss the following for each emission reduction measure: (a) The range of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions that result from the measure. The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Another incident report from Orland this month estimated the cost of drilling a new well at $20,000.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

2012) and account for random regional climate variations on scales up to decades. The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002). 775-779, 2012. Rabin, "Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers", The Quarterly Journal of Economics , vol.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. Indeed, the OVEC coal plants have been selling electricity for less than it costs to generate for a decade, operating at a loss since 2012. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov.

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Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In re University of Vermont State and Agricultural College. hjones@eli.org. Wed, 11/02/2022 - 12:25. 03/17/2017.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016. The Supremacy Clause serves to “ invalidate[] state law that interferes with or is contrary to federal law.”

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

2012; Ste-Marie et al., 2012), as was done with the Florida torreya ( Torreya taxifolia ) in a citizen-initiated conservation effort that garnered quite a bit of controversy in 2008. 2012; Ste-Marie et al., There are several types of assisted migration. 2019; Pedlar et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., Ecosphere , 10 (3), e02651.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The primary term of Cromwell’s leases passed in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Anadarko netted Cromwell’s debts against his share of production proceeds in months when costs exceeded revenues. In letters Anadarko addressed Cromwell as a “working interest owner”. Anadarko claimed this was in error.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

Wiegand On August 16, 2012, EPA issued new source performance standards (NSPSs) for the oil and gas sector. By Stephen W. The standards applied to various sources including storage tanks used in crude oil and natural gas production. On April 12, 2013, EPA announced proposed amendments to the rule pertaining to storage tanks.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

38; and (3) due process, all as a matter of law. County of Marin (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th In SPAWN (my April 27, 2012 post on which can be found here ), plaintiff SPAWN challenged the County’s EIR for a general plan update for the San Geronimo Valley watershed. Factual/Procedural Background. 4th 195, 204, fn.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Signed into law in 2016, the DRBCA has successfully brought federal, state, and local governments together with regional partners to identify, prioritize, and implement restoration activities within the Delaware River Basin. Alongside these efforts, the Delaware River Watershed Caucus breakfast featured remarks from five members of Congress.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Ahead of COP18 in 2012, U.K. This provision, known as Paragraph 51, effectively ensures that the Paris Agreement cannot give rise to legal claims to recover for loss and damage, but at the same time it doesn’t preclude claims under existing law. In its written statement on the declaration , the U.S. At COP25, the U.S.

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

A proposed approach to the problem of animal suffering not adequately addressed under existing law is to extend public health emergency and disaster preparedness and resilience frameworks to farm animal communities drawing on the model crisis standards of care. [2]. 991, 1007 (2012). [2]. The National Academies Press (2012), [link]. [3].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Since companies and policymakers do not want to pay a lot to ensure reliability, they both subscribe to the theory that the law of supply and demand will provide an adequate supply at a low cost. Consider what happened in New York City and northern New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. That can prove disastrous.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

The foundations of Mexico City churches have famously tilted, and one 2012 study found that Venice was subsiding at a rate of.07 That happened during California’s last prolonged drought, from 2012 to 2016, when Central Valley land sank at high rates. In Texas, the Houston-Galveston area has been sinking since the 1800s.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 13, 2023

The Australian government has issued draft Environmental and Sustainability Guidance describing the obligations under Australian consumer law which businesses must comply with when making environmental and sustainability claims.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Farm Bill is likely the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. More detail can be found in my book, Farming for Our Future; The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture , and related Columbia , Harvard , NYU , and Yale Law School blogs). For example, between 2007 and 2012, 7.8

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Jurisdictions announced new methane regulations COPs are usually the place where governments announce their recent environmental laws and regulations. The goal of the coalition is to enable a space of collaboration to implement actionable and effective solutions for methane emissions abatement.

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