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The Evolving Legal Landscape for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Greenbuilding Law

The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. Environmental Protection Agency as satisfying its All Appropriate Inquiry rule to obtain protections from liability under CERCLA, the federal Superfund law. It is a non-scope matter.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Greenbuilding Law

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years

PA Environment Daily

The number of conventional violations is the largest on record-- at least since 2013. And current state law doesn’t require any oil and gas wells drilled prior to April 18, 1985 to have any plugging bonds-- which is the overwhelming majority of the 190,828 conventional permitted wells in the Commonwealth. barrels or 0.41

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Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court

The Energy Law Blog

1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” The Ninth Circuit has interpreted this clause as giving the court the authority to review the district court’s remand order only to the extent that the order addresses the statutory sections listed in the clause (i.e., §§ 1442 or 1443). BP PLC et al.,

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New Abandoned Wells: DEP Records Show Abandoning Oil & Gas Wells Without Plugging Them Is Pervasive In Conventional Drilling Industry; Who Is Protecting Taxpayers?

PA Environment Daily

Click Here the list of 256 conventional oil and gas companies issued NOVs. A new federal program under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will allocate an estimated $395 million in taxpayer funds to Pennsylvania over the next 15 years to plug these wells. The law would have to be changed. Read more here. Read more here.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

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. Ninth Circuit Reinstated Listing of Bearded Seal as Threatened Based on Climate Change Projections. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Pritzker , Nos.

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