CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since my inaugural post (which can be viewed here ) was a “top ten” list of CEQA litigation mistakes to avoid, I thought an appropriate tenth anniversary post might be a list of the ten most significant CEQA case law developments over the past decade. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2021

Environmental Defence is currently running a campaign calling for the federal government to ban coal exports. The momentum it gained was incredible and all because of a decision I made back in 2013 to do something. This guest post is by Paula Williams, the co-founder of Communities and Coal. Take action here. My Awareness.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The trend dates to a 2013 Edison Electric Institute report highlighting the disruptive challenges of distributed resources and recommending that utilities impose higher fixed charges. It is a slightly modified version of a CPUC principle dating to 2014, which has been applied to evaluate rate design proposals ever since.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

This new financing comes from the LEAF Coalition , a partnership between the governments of the USA, UK and Norway, alongside some of the world’s largest companies, including Amazon, Nestlé, BlackRock and Walmart. According to official data , between 1986 to 2013, Costa Rica’s forests drew down 107 million tonnes of CO2.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.” In July 2013, the D.C.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Laurie Ristino.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 24, 2021

Halliburton II) , 573 US 258 (2014).” While the Opinion offers basic answers to complicated securities law issues, in remanding the case for further proceedings, it also leaves key questions unresolved. Funds , 568 US 455, 468 (2013)). John Fund, Inc. ” Maj. ” Id. at 3 (citing Amgen Inc. Plans and Tr.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers. As of October 2013, lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus is banned.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From 2014 into 2017, they worked in Plunketts Creek Township to put good zoning protections in place for residents. Most importantly, this is not adherence to the PA Constitution as the law of the land. This is not the “of the people, by the people, for the people” democracy that Lincoln proclaimed America to be.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

DWR has long-term contracts with 29 local government contractors giving each of them rights to receive a certain portion of available SWP water supplies, and imposing obligations to pay for water received, and also to pay a proportional share of SWP development, operation and maintenance costs regardless of the amount of water received.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In September, the Sierra Club, one of the largest environmental organizations in the United States, filed a lawsuit seeking an immediate ban on the transportation of crude oil in allegedly outdated and unsafe tank cars despite the fact that the government has proposed regulations to address the same concerns. 3d 413, 419 (D.C. Circuit 2004).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This marked the first restart of a nuclear power plant in Japan since the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ceased all commercial nuclear operations in 2013 in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster in March, 2011. graduate of Vermont Law School, from which he graduated in 2014 with a General Practice Certificate.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Long recognized in both American and English common law, the defense rests on the claim that an otherwise illegal act is legally excusable as necessary to avoid a greater harm. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. Upcoming cases will provide U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

455 (2013).]] 258 (2014).]]—requires For petitioner, these included the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Society for Corporate Governance, the Securities and Financial Markets Association, and the American Bankers Association. He is not admitted to the practice of law. Connecticut Ret. Plans & Tr.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

It found a 2014 consultant study estimating average summer weekend vehicle use at 273 vehicles per survey day failed to support the project’s proposed 270 spaces because the surveys occurred in afternoon rather than peak demand morning hours. My June 25, 2013 blog post on that case ( “Is “Parking” Really A CEQA Impact? 2008) 43 Cal.4th

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 21, 2016

A group of private landowners (“the Landowners”), who owned all of Unit 1, brought a lawsuit in 2013 for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the FWS, its director, the United States Department of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Interior. On August 22, 2014, District Judge Martin L.C. Tammany Parish (“Unit 1”).

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. On January 9, 2014, a chemical tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston, West Virginia, leaked into the Elk River. At first glance, though, existing laws would seem applicable to the spill at Freedom Industries.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Court answered “yes” to the first sub-issue and “no” to the second, but first reviewed general principles governing the use of program EIRs and the standard of review. The Court held these conclusions were supported by substantial evidence and that no VMT analysis was required as a matter of law. Guidelines, § 15332.)

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

in 2016 pursuant to Section 1651 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (15 U.S.C. Under this final rule, and the FY2013 NDAA, the prime contractor cannot expend more than 50% of the amount paid by the government, exclusive of materials costs, on subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities.[[N:15

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Ultimately, cooperation between the parties ended, but real parties applied to County in 2013 for a specific plan and rezonings they believed were consistent with the agreement’s primary terms. While TRPA had “jurisdiction by law” in that it exercises authority over resources affected by the project, it was not a responsible agency.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Later the company was exposed for using another tool called “Greyball” to evade police and government officials as well as unwanted customers. The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al., 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al.,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

But at least under Delaware law, the WeWork decision expanded the applicability of a test that was originally intended for evaluating privilege in the context of employer-employee disputes where the employee uses a work email address for communicating with his or her personal attorney. 510 governs privilege waiver.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Later the company was exposed for using another tool called “Greyball” to evade police and government officials as well as unwanted customers. The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Observing that where an administrative remedy is provided it is a “jurisdictional prerequisite” that must be exhausted before courts will act (citing Citizens for Open Government v. City of San Jose (2013) 220 Cal.App.4th San Diego Unified School District (2013) 215 Cal.App.4th City of Lodi (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. In 2014, the USDA received a budget of $157.5

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

L 97) 72 (EC); Regulation 167/2013, 2013 O.J. (L L 60) 1 (EU); Regulation 168/2013, 2013 O.J. (L L 60) 52; Directive 2014/90, 2014 O.J. (L This statement is a bit hyperbolic as the General Data Protection Regulation and other laws already restrict AI in various ways.[[N: [[N:EC Proposal arts.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the last several years, many investors, regulators and other stakeholders have increasingly sought environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures from public companies. N:Ceres, SEC Climate Guidance & S&P 500 Reporting —2010 to 2013 (February 2014).]]. cybersecurity risk governance.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The direct purchasers' suit, filed in 2012, alleged that GSK and Teva violated the antitrust laws through their settlement agreement to end a patent dispute over GSK's anti-epilepsy drug Lamictal and Teva's generic equivalent, lamotrigine.[[N:Complaint, [[N: In re Lamictal Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litig., 3d 184 (3d Cir. 3d 811 (N.D.

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