Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. GHG Emissions Analysis. Section 15064.4(2)(b)

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

Holding and Analysis The Third District’s opinion in Butte IV is a thoroughgoing and straightforward examination of the Counties’ CEQA claims which broke down into four categories: climate change, historical hydrological conditions, water quality and beneficial use, and changes to the SWP.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

The number of conventional violations is the largest on record-- at least since 2013. Plugging wells to stop the vertical flow of fluids and gas is critical to preventing ground and surface water contamination and the release of climate-changing methane gas into the atmosphere. Read more here.] barrels or 0.41

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

And human impacts on the environment, like climate change and land development, very well may hurt beneficial insects and help harmful ones. Many scientists are currently analyzing the roles that climate change , land use , chemical pesticides and other factors have played in reported declines in many insect species.

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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. We don't want to see those go into the abandoned category and make the situation worse [sic]. Read more here. Read more here.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th Citing Concerned Dublin Citizens v. 4th 1301, 1311 (my 4/10/13 post on which can be found here ); Lucas v. City of Pomona (2023) 92 Cal.App.5th 5th 508, 538 (my 6/27/23 post on which can be found here ); see Pub.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

Urban and suburban polluted runoff is increasing amid inconsistent enforcement by government agencies, new development, and climate change. The same practices make farms more resilient to climate change and its effects. Efforts to restore the Bay are struggling to reduce agricultural pollution.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

City of San Jose (2013) 220 Cal.App.4th San Diego Unified School District (2013) 215 Cal.App.4th The lone ruling on which the trial court was reversed was its finding that the City adequately assessed the MND Projects’ consistency with the City’s CAP in reaching its determination of no significant GHG/climate change impacts.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA countered that what the agency did here is just what it has traditionally done under this core provision of the Clean Air Act (Section 202), including in three previous GHG rules for the same source categories: EPA examined available emissions-reduction technologies, costs, and lead time and then set technology-neutral performance standards.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. The report breaks down these investments into four categories. Cap-and-trade programs generally operate as follows. [13].

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