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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

To get a better sense of where the court may be heading, I spoke with Sean Donahue , an environmental lawyer who argued one of the cases and was there for the other two oral arguments. This doctrine limits the power of agencies to issue regulations of “extraordinary” importance and was used by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v.

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That Dam Case (Again):  Third District Upholds Oroville Hydropower Facilities Relicensing EIR Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

CEQA Developments

On April 7, 2023, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a lengthy published opinion – the latest installment in one of the longer ongoing CEQA battles in recent memory – affirming a judgment finding an EIR for the Federal relicensing of Oroville Dam and related hydropower facilities legally adequate. 5th 630 ( Butte I ). 791a et seq.).

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The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the New York Constitution

E2 Law Blog

It will take effect in January 2022. Unless this new section 19 is read by the New York courts in a way different from the way they have read the other 18 sections of the Bill of Rights, section 19 will not give the person whose air is dirty a right to sue the polluter directly. Envt’l Def. Commonwealth , 161 A.3d 3d 911 (Pa.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Greenbuilding Law

Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 sunset eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013 and the new E1527-21 was as of last week published and now available for use, but. Just weeks ago the federal appeals court in Von Duprin LLC v.

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013. And in Pennsylvania, a 2022 study, this is now separate from the 2023 study showing the link of lymphoma, a 2022 study found that children living within 1.2 It also offers a review of trends in research findings. miles of a fracking well were 2.3