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The Energy Law Blog
JUNE 2, 2020
In two companion cases, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided whether a federal district court could properly exercise jurisdiction over climate change suits brought against energy companies by cities and counties in California. In County of San Mateo et al. In City of Oakland et al. BP PLC et al.
CEQA Developments
MAY 2, 2023
On April 7, 2023, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a lengthy published opinion – the latest installment in one of the longer ongoing CEQA battles in recent memory – affirming a judgment finding an EIR for the Federal relicensing of Oroville Dam and related hydropower facilities legally adequate. 5th 630 ( Butte I ). 791a et seq.).
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Greenbuilding Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
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. Just weeks ago the federal appeals court in Von Duprin LLC v.
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).
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. West Virginia Federal Court Ordered EPA to Evaluate Clean Air Act’s Impacts on Coal Industry. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Pritzker , Nos. opinion Oct.
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.
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. What if it is from a manmade source in New York, operating lawfully under New York law?
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