CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th 2013) 215 Cal.App.4th Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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CEQA Developments

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On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th My August 9, 2013 post on the case can be found here. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2011, Dr. Mohammed Islam, a tenured professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM received an additional appointment to UM’s medical school, for which he executed an employment agreement. After returning to UM in 2013, he filed non-provisional applications claiming priority to those provisional applications.

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Law of the Lands

MAY 30, 2018

The trees had been removed by T in February, 2011. However, the parties disputed two issues: 1) a limitation period defence put forward by Neighbour O; and, 2) the amount of damages to be awarded for the trespass, if the limitation period defence did not eliminate the claim entirely. The Court rejected the limitation period defence.

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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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JULY 20, 2023

For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space. Since 2013, FbD has restored miles of river, established recreation areas, reduced flood risk, improved working lands, and created jobs. In this current funding cycle, we are administering $64.5

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.” In July 2013, the D.C.

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Vermont Law

MAY 20, 2021

The project never caught any traction and began to wind down in 2011, finally ceasing operation in the 2016. Clugston is a professor of law at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. In return for donating this to the Commons, the firm would receive good PR, and also possibly benefit from the further development of its technology.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision. acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law. From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers. In 2011, Maryland legislators passed the Fertilizer Use Act. As of October 2013, lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus is banned. summa cum laude.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 2767, which took effect on September 1, 2013, was enacted to encourage recycling of the wastewater produced in hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) and other oil and gas operations. In 2011, 3.5 A hotly contested issue is the consumption of water by fracking activities.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This marked the first restart of a nuclear power plant in Japan since the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ceased all commercial nuclear operations in 2013 in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster in March, 2011. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011. new safety rules. 2010 Energy Plan.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note that the court of appeals correctly cited current Rule 26(b)(1) in the second sentence, but then cites to pre-December 1, 2015 case law and even cites a 2011 decision that quotes the 2000 version of Rule 26(b)(1): This court recognizes broad and liberal treatment of the federal discovery rules. 2011) (quoting Fed.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR).

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2013

By Bob Holden and Jillian Marullo On April 23, 2013, in a case of first impression, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the EPA’s veto authority under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C.§ Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”). Mingo Logan Coal Co. EPA , 714 F.3d 3d 608 (D.C.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On April 18, 2013, the U.S. EPA made this commitment in response to the Office of Inspector General’s February 20, 2013 report, “EPA Needs to Improve Air Emissions Data for the Oil and Natural Gas Production Sector” (pdf) (Report).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms. Because of reclamation law, former mine sites are now soccer fields or home to new manufacturing. .

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

North Coast Rivers Alliance, et al (“NCRA”) and Planning and Conservation League, et al (“PCL”) filed separate actions challenging the project under CEQA and other laws, in which some contractors intervened. 2011) 202 Cal.App.4th State Lands Com. 4th 549, 561 (“ Citizens ”), a decision analyzed in this blog’s 2/9/12 post.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

B in a May 20, 2013 Louisiana Register Notice. 1280 (May 20, 2013). On or after January 1, 2011, such condensable particulate matter shall be accounted for in applicability determinations and in establishing emissions limitations for PM 2.5 51.166(b)(49). The revised definition of “regulated NSR pollutant” states: PM 2.5

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

The CEQA Guidelines have been revised to clarify the appropriate methodology for measuring and assessing the significance of GHG emissions, consistent with recent case law. 4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). 4th 455 (2d.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Ultimately, cooperation between the parties ended, but real parties applied to County in 2013 for a specific plan and rezonings they believed were consistent with the agreement’s primary terms. City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th Citing Clover Valley Foundation v. 4th 200, 243; CEQA Guidelines, § 15064.7.).

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JUNE 2, 2021

But at least under Delaware law, the WeWork decision expanded the applicability of a test that was originally intended for evaluating privilege in the context of employer-employee disputes where the employee uses a work email address for communicating with his or her personal attorney. Friedman , 2013 WL 1668205, at *4 (Del.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al., 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al.,

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2024

Connecticut created the first American green bank in 2011, then New York in 2013, followed by many other states and municipalities largely with the help of GGRF awardee Coalition for Green Capital. The idea has come a long way fast.

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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. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. United States v.

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CEQA Developments

APRIL 4, 2022

Since July 2011, Real Party (Lafferty) has been attempting to develop its 32-acre site in the Garaventa Hills with a residential development project consistent with its zoning. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th County of Mendocino (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th Citing Neighbors for Smart Rail v.

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JUNE 2, 2021

In the past decade, as the use of Red Notices by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) member states has increased dramatically, so too have calls for INTERPOL to strengthen its gatekeeping function and guard against national authorities' potential misuse of this powerful tool of international law enforcement cooperation.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Together, these developments will undoubtedly lead to more litigation and a higher cost of doing business on the Outer Continental Shelf. The number of civil penalty cases has risen gradually since 2009, with a sharp increase over 2013-2015. In 2013, the average penalty was $67,714 over 42 cases. million in civil penalties.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 23, 2022

Most obviously, and topically, they plainly will apply to housing development projects when state housing laws impose legal obligations that limit local agencies’ legal authority to disapprove or reduce the density of those projects. (See, See, e.g., Gov. Code, § 65589.5 (the the “Housing Accountability Act”).).

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Details came to light of how Serco defrauded the Ministry of Justice by hiding the extent of the profits being made between 2010 and 2013 by its parent company, Serco Limited, through fraudulent reporting and related false accounting. Stephanie Boyce, who is the first Black office holder.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., His parents, Gary and Shari Peters, documented six more kids in Aurora diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. With fresh eyes, Coulter came to the issue after caring for Jacob and another pediatric cancer patient in 2011. There are others across Nebraska. It was a career shift.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Securing state and federal permits, in 2013 and 2014, CHPE generated thousands of comments to the New York Public Service Commission and a promise of a $117 million trust fund to support environmental restoration. The project, announced in 2010, is backed by scores of elected officials, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 13, 2021

I have published a 2013 paper and a 2015 political economy paper on carbon tax voting. My 2011 paper with Matt Kotchen on political economy of regulation was discussed by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show! I agree with him that too few climate economists work on political economy issues.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fresenius has also been fined $50 million after employees were caught destroying records prior to a 2013 inspection of a plant that manufactured cancer medicines in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. In 2016, the company agreed to pay out $250 million in compensation to families of U.S. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fresenius has also been fined $50 million after employees were caught destroying records prior to a 2013 inspection of a plant that manufactured cancer medicines in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. In 2016, the company agreed to pay out $250 million in compensation to families of U.S. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fresenius has also been fined $50 million after employees were caught destroying records prior to a 2013 inspection of a plant that manufactured cancer medicines in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. In 2016, the company agreed to pay out $250 million in compensation to families of U.S. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fresenius has also been fined $50 million after employees were caught destroying records prior to a 2013 inspection of a plant that manufactured cancer medicines in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. In 2016, the company agreed to pay out $250 million in compensation to families of U.S. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S.

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