Legal Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
In 2013, the Obama EPA granted another section 209(b) waiver, this time allowing California to implement a new, more stringent set of GHG emission standards for motor vehicles known as the “Advanced Clean Car Program.” A bit of CAA history is needed to understand this litigation and its profound legal and policy implications.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law. You have to get the stakeholders to the table under the compulsion of law. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Carl Ganter.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2024
Since then, however, the gas industry—much like the oil industry—has cribbed heavily from the tobacco industry’s playbook to block government regulation by manufacturing doubt about the reality and seriousness of its “NOx problem.” She then went on to rave about her gas clothes dryer and fireplace.
Legal Planet
APRIL 14, 2024
Briefly, the Sheetz case arose out of El Dorado County’s 2004 adoption of a new General Plan to govern the county’s land use planning and to manage the county’s future growth. Which brings us to a quick review of applicable regulatory takings law. Finally, in the 2013 case of Koontz v. Constitution.
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 26, 2024
The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 26, 2021
In Pennsylvania, where the constitution already recognizes environmental rights, the state Supreme Court has used the provision to strike down parts of state law. The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
In other words, who has standing to bring challenges to government action under the ERA. 2013), claims under the ERA had very little teeth without a supporting claim of a violation of some other statutory or regulatory provision, and an ERA claim often served as strongly worded bluster without any substance. 2013)) (citing Pa.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
298 
Let's personalize your content