Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). The revised guidelines also add “energy” as an impact category in the environmental checklist for CEQA reviews that agencies use to format and guide their environmental reviews (Appendix G).

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion regarding criminal liability under environmental statutes. The district court found Citgo guilty of two counts of knowingly operating two tanks as oil-water separators without CAA emission controls, and three counts of “taking” migratory birds in violation of the MBTA.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. The Court Of Appeal’s Opinion.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Steingraber -- Public Health Crisis The summary conclusion of the 9th Compendium on natural gas development research is-- “The rapidly expanding body of evidence compiled here is massive, troubling and cries out for decisive action. million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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. Will this new constitutional language impact NYSDEC permitting decisions? Kassab , 312 A.2d

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

The court directed the parties to file an update on the progress of their negotiations by September 3, 2021. The lawsuit is pending in the federal district court for the Northern District of California. EPA said remand would allow the Agency to revisit certain legal, policy, and scientific assumptions, approaches, and decisions.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

A consent decree entered by the federal district court for the Northern District of Georgia required Home Depot U.S.A, ” The parties recommended that the court set a briefing schedule for the motion to remand, with the motion due on May 28. Litigation. Home Depot) to pay a $20.75 N:Neighbors for Envtl. 20-72091 (9th Cir.

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