Energy & the Law

MAY 4, 2022

In 2018, amidst the Eagle Ford Shale leasing frenzy, EP acquired the “First Presbyterian” lease and the “Donaldson Brown” lease, both effective back to 2013. EP: It would pay only for acreage on which it paid bonuses after the effective date of the Donaldson Brown lease—September 25, 2013., but not before.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

When Caltrans and other state and local agencies build or approve projects that increase car traffic, state law requires them to mitigate those impacts. Senate Bill 743 , originally enacted in 2013, called for a new transportation impact measure that promotes greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction and multimodal transportation.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision. From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4 From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4 acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). acre feet per acre.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 13, 2021

“The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is a bedrock environmental law that is critical to protecting migratory birds and restoring declining bird populations,” said Secretary Deb Haaland. The Service is now requesting public comment on issues of fact, law and policy raised by that MBTA rule published on January 7.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators a record total of 6,860 violations for all infractions of law and regulations in 2023, nearly 52% more than in 2021. In 2023, DEP reported plugging 169 conventional wells primarily with the additional taxpayer funding provided by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In September 2018, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The comment period for the rule closed in November 2018, and comments are still under review according to the. 2013 EPA Vessel General Permit. At the Limits of the Law: The Challenge of Invasives in 2020. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VIDA, enacted in December 2018, will standardize incidental discharge permits and regulations, replacing the 2013 Vessel General Permit (“VGP”) that commercial vessels are currently required to follow.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

The number of conventional violations is the largest on record-- at least since 2013. And current state law doesn’t require any oil and gas wells drilled prior to April 18, 1985 to have any plugging bonds-- which is the overwhelming majority of the 190,828 conventional permitted wells in the Commonwealth. Read more here.]

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018). Green bonds are innovative financial instruments specifically earmarked to finance environmentally friendly projects.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In an October 2020 presentation to the Climate Change Advisory Committee, DEP said in 2018 two conventional oil and gas well operators abandoned approximately 2,750 oil and gas wells between them. In July 2018, DEP issued orders to Alliance Petroleum Corp., The law would have to be changed. Read more here. --In Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé.

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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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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

In June 2013, the University of Hawaii prepared the Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study for the State of Hawai‘i Department of Health, U.S. LAHAINA GROUNDWATER TRACER STUDY (2013), [link]. About the author: Savannah is a third-year law student at Vermont Law School who is pursuing a Certificate in Water Resources Law.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 4, 2021

After returning to UM in 2013, he filed non-provisional applications claiming priority to those provisional applications. After the patents issued, Dr. Islam assigned the patent rights to Omni on December 17, 2013.[[N: In 2018, Omni sued Apple in the Eastern District of Texas, asserting patent infringement.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi. Photo by Kunle Adebajo.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

In 2018 and 2019, the City adopted ordinances to tax and impose licensing procedures and regulations on commercial cannabis businesses, but it was also required to designate certain parcels in the City where cannabis-related land uses would be permitted before it could accept permit applications. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”. Current Issues in Tourism , 13 (5), 495-505. OECD (2022).

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

Popularized in the 2013 film. The existing space law regime is not sufficient to address the growing issues presented by the increasing creation of orbital debris. [8]. Under current international law, mitigation guidelines are voluntary and there is no enforcement mechanism preventing anti?satellite Gravity. , 7, 2019). [4].

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

213 (2012) and The ACREL Papers 121 (Spring 2013). 163 (Fall 2018/Winter 2019), is Uniform Commercial Code Opinions in Real Estate Finance Transactions (the “UCC Opinion Report”). 163 (Fall 2018/Winter 2019), is Uniform Commercial Code Opinions in Real Estate Finance Transactions (the “UCC Opinion Report”). & Est. L.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

2013), the Delaware Court of Chancery clarified that under Delaware law the privilege for pre-merger communications passes to the surviving company after a merger is consummated. 2018-0517-KSJM (Del. In Great Hill Equity Partners IV, LP v. SIG Growth Equity Fund I, LLLP , 80 A.3d 3d 155 (Del. RSI Holdco, LLC , C.A.

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