Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since my inaugural post (which can be viewed here ) was a “top ten” list of CEQA litigation mistakes to avoid, I thought an appropriate tenth anniversary post might be a list of the ten most significant CEQA case law developments over the past decade. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2021

In 2013, after moving with my husband and young children to the beautiful coastal community of White Rock/South Surrey, BC, I learned that there was a plan to develop a US thermal coal transfer facility at Fraser Surrey Docks, about a 30-minute drive from our home with the intent of shipping 8 million metric tonnes of coal to Asia.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held that fishermen who intentionally came upon the scene of the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon failed to state a claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress under general maritime law. 2014); Barker v. 2013); Plaisance v. 2014); Barker v. 2013); Plaisance v. See Barker v.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 16, 2021

The CBCA decision arose from a different disease outbreak than we are experiencing today: the 2014 Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. In 2013, the Department of State (DoS) awarded Pernix Serka Joint Venture (Pernix Serka) a Firm Fixed Price contract for a rainwater capture and storage system in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Background.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. On the other hand, we expect to see the effect of greenhouse gases when we look at the temperature averaged over the entire globe.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

2013) 215 Cal.App.4th City of Sacramento (2014) 231 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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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

In June 2013, the University of Hawaii prepared the Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study for the State of Hawai‘i Department of Health, U.S. LAHAINA GROUNDWATER TRACER STUDY (2013), [link]. About the author: Savannah is a third-year law student at Vermont Law School who is pursuing a Certificate in Water Resources Law.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

City of Milpitas (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 4th 1307 (see prior summary dated July 30, 2013, which can be found here ).) 2014) 227 Cal.App.4th 4th 832, 850 (see prior summary dated July 11, 2014, which can be accessed here ).) 1207, § 9, pp. 4746, 4747 [prior version]; Stats. 1009, § 18, pp. Westlands Water Dist.

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Vorys Law

APRIL 23, 2021

In 2013 and 2014, the appellees signed leases with another oil and gas operator. The Court applied existing case law as well as ordinary rules of contract interpretation to resolve the issue. First, the Court acknowledged that the term “minerals” under Ohio case law generally includes oil and gas.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The trend dates to a 2013 Edison Electric Institute report highlighting the disruptive challenges of distributed resources and recommending that utilities impose higher fixed charges. It is a slightly modified version of a CPUC principle dating to 2014, which has been applied to evaluate rate design proposals ever since.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Associate Professor of Law (Carlos III University). Visiting Scholar at the Center for Climate Change Law. In October 2013, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly agreed to develop a global market-based mechanism (MBM) by 2016 addressing international aviation emissions and to apply it by 2020.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Laurie Ristino.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

On April 12, 2013, EPA announced proposed amendments to the rule pertaining to storage tanks. Further, based on the agency’s revised estimation, there is currently an insufficient supply of control devices available to meet the October 15, 2013, deadline for compliance. Comments on the proposed rule must be submitted by May 13, 2013.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 24, 2021

Halliburton II) , 573 US 258 (2014).” While the Opinion offers basic answers to complicated securities law issues, in remanding the case for further proceedings, it also leaves key questions unresolved. Funds , 568 US 455, 468 (2013)). John Fund, Inc. ” Maj. ” Id. at 3 (citing Amgen Inc. Plans and Tr.

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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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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2014

In the fall of 2013, some of these lawyers, a team at the nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), announced a wonderful initiative—creation of a National “Do Not Adopt Registry;” a registry that will make historical data available, including the name and birth date of the convicted abuser. In 2013, ALDF. appeared first on.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers. As of October 2013, lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus is banned. In September 2013, District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

While having only 8% of stocks experiencing overfishing remains near an all-time low, this percentage has largely stayed the same for a decade, even though the law requires an immediate end to overfishing. One of those stocks, gag grouper in the Gulf of Mexico, is overfished once again after being rebuilt in 2014. What does this mean?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

At the beginning of the 20th century, Costa Rica had focused its economic development mainly on agricultural activity, enacting laws that encouraged deforestation to turn land into agriculture , such as the land and colonisation law of 1961. million tonnes of CO2 between 2014 and 2015.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million. Furthermore, in July 2023, India passed a new law that has made it easier to clear forests, including for coal mines. million tonnes, rising to 1.025 billion tonnes by 2031-2032.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

On January 6, 2014, TCEQ requested comments on a proposal to revise the agency’s penalty policy. Recent Statutory Changes House Bill 2615 (PDF) (83rd Legislature, 2013) significantly increased the administrative penalties for a water right holder’s failure to submit an annual water use report to TCEQ. See Revised Penalty Policy (PDF).

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th Part 3 of 4), posted 12/1/21 on SLoG Law Blog (noting agency leaders, such as a city council, “are elected officials who inevitably pay attention to politics even when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity (hearing a CEQA appeal)”.) Citing Concerned Dublin Citizens v.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Each year more wells are drilled than plugged, resulting in a growing inventory of wells to be inspected to ensure compliance with applicable laws. The fees were last updated before that in 2014. There has been no increase in fees for conventional oil and gas drillers since 2014. Read more here.] Read more here.

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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. 2014) 227 Cal.App.4th South Coast Air Quality Management Dist. 2010) 48 Cal.4th Westlands Water Dist. Citing Save Our Capitol!

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Vermont Law

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. graduate of Vermont Law School, from which he graduated in 2014 with a General Practice Certificate.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From 2014 into 2017, they worked in Plunketts Creek Township to put good zoning protections in place for residents. Most importantly, this is not adherence to the PA Constitution as the law of the land. This is not the “of the people, by the people, for the people” democracy that Lincoln proclaimed America to be. PaEN] -- U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The Proposed Regulations Following a series of train accidents in 2013, and a number of petitions asking for more stringent railroad safety regulations, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on September 6, 2013.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 24, 2014

In June 2013, a coalition of seven environmental organizations––including Sierra Club, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Columbia Riverkeeper, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Inc., On March 12, 2014, the Honorable John C. By the railroad’s own estimate, coal trains can lose. 500 pounds. of coal from.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

It found a 2014 consultant study estimating average summer weekend vehicle use at 273 vehicles per survey day failed to support the project’s proposed 270 spaces because the surveys occurred in afternoon rather than peak demand morning hours. My June 25, 2013 blog post on that case ( “Is “Parking” Really A CEQA Impact?

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

455 (2013).]] 258 (2014).]]—requires Mr. Bemis is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law and is employed at Arnold & Porter's New York office. He is not admitted to the practice of law. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Long recognized in both American and English common law, the defense rests on the claim that an otherwise illegal act is legally excusable as necessary to avoid a greater harm. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. 8, 2014), [link].

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 21, 2016

According to one 2014 study, the total direct and indirect impact on the state is approximately $73.8 1] Taxes make up a large part of the industry’s direct economic impact in Louisiana: In 2013, the industry paid nearly $1.5 The oil and gas industry has a significant and far reaching economic impact in Louisiana.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. On January 9, 2014, a chemical tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston, West Virginia, leaked into the Elk River. At first glance, though, existing laws would seem applicable to the spill at Freedom Industries.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 21, 2016

A group of private landowners (“the Landowners”), who owned all of Unit 1, brought a lawsuit in 2013 for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the FWS, its director, the United States Department of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Interior. On August 22, 2014, District Judge Martin L.C. Tammany Parish (“Unit 1”).

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2016

The result is consistent, however, with the EPA’s 2014-2018 Strategic Plan of focusing on large cases, and its recent pattern of pursuing fewer enforcement actions with larger resolutions. Adm’r of E.P.A. CITGO Petroleum Corp., 3d 547, 549 (5th Cir. million dollars. Year in Rev. 48 (2015).

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