Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability.

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JUNE 27, 2023

As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon. The Findings addressed each of the environmental issues studied in the 2014 EIR and compared the effects of the Project to those of the adopted GPU.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In the United Kingdom, regulators have temporarily given water utilities permission to treat wastewater to a lower standard. Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. In India, a government program is bringing running water to more homes in areas of high-poverty. Transcript.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, because most development is approved at the local level in California, any response either requires state intervention into local land-use regulation (always politically controversial) or alternatively getting local governments to address the problem themselves, no small task in a state with hundreds of cities and counties.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

In Minnesota , stricter penalties for water overuse are signed into state law. “We Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative Air Force dispute with state environmental regulators could jeopardize new PFAS extraction project — Michigan Radio Michigan is the king of potato chips. percent, significantly lower than the 24.5

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Several members of the Emmett Institute team are at COP28, where we are hosting a side event on methane in conjunction with the release of our new discussion paper, “ Advancing Methane Regulation: Implications of New Monitoring Technologies. ” Join us at the Climate Registry’s Pavilion on Wed, Dec 6 at 11am. Not at COP28?

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Western utilities may be more interested in sticking with California and joining EDAM if CAISO has an independent governance structure.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns. But this principle isn’t new.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hawke has been named to Board’s Class of 2024, which will help govern the organization in its mission to preserve the historical significance of the SEC. Founded in 1999, the SEC Historical Society shares, preserves, and advances knowledge of the history of financial regulation.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It It is important to note that once a mining permit is issued in a forested area, there must be deforestation, but the problem is that current mining regulations in Indonesia still allow such a thing to happen.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Still, given the potential for even more serious damage in the future, government at all levels is taking action to address the issue. Going into 2020, anticipated federal regulation will significantly affect the nation’s response to the Emerald Ash Borer and aquatic invasives in ballast water. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. China fines Toyota 87.6

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

And to the west, in Mendocino County, coastal towns fret about dry taps, while the Russian River is so depleted that state regulators have told grape growers not to withdraw any water from it. Thousands of wells in the state went dry in the previous drought , in 2014 and 2015, mostly in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past several years – and especially in the past few months – Premier Doug Ford’s government has made sweeping changes to environmental protection and land use planning rules across Ontario. . The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. 1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. However, West Virginia law. However, West Virginia law.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is little doubt that the popularity of cannabis and CBD products is growing, and some lawmakers are now looking to decrease cannabis regulation at the federal level and expand access. In the 2014 criminal case of People of the State of Colorado v. and the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act,[[N: [link].]]

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CEQA Developments

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. Superior Court (2014) 59 Cal.4th Baseline basics are clarified.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. The goals of the Flood Management Program include providing public information, mapping and regulations, flood damage reduction, and flood preparedness for Philadelphia.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

This new financing comes from the LEAF Coalition , a partnership between the governments of the USA, UK and Norway, alongside some of the world’s largest companies, including Amazon, Nestlé, BlackRock and Walmart. million tonnes of CO2 between 2014 and 2015. These factors halted net deforestation and allowed forests to regenerate.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 6, 2016

In New York and Pennsylvania, anti-fracking groups have obtained a statewide ban on fracking and the allowance of local authority to regulate fracking, respectively. Texas, however, has enacted a state law expressly preempting local authority over a number of drilling activities. In 2014, St. Tammany Parish Government v.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Regardless of the size, neither FERC, PUC, nor PHMSA regulate gathering systems. 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.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

BSEE’s regulations define “obstructions” as “structures, equipment, or objects that were used in oil, gas, or sulphur operations. that is funded in whole or in part by or authorized by the Federal Government.” The number of offshore lease blocks in the Gulf of Mexico designated as SSRAs doubled from 337 in 2014 to 686 today.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Through the Clean Streams Law, which will assist farmers with best management practices, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will receive $8.8 DEP also reduced air pollution from stationary sources — including cutting sulfur dioxide emissions by 84% since 2014 and reducing methane leaks from new natural gas wells by 32%.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

But, an even bigger challenge remains—regulation of chicken litter dumped into the Bay by the Delmarva Peninsula’s poultry industry. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. in Environmental Law.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So too have the overpumped groundwater aquifers in California’s San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys that belatedly prompted state political leaders to enact California’s first-ever groundwater regulatory program in 2014. aquifers.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2012, 80 percent of Cudahy residents were low-income, and in 2014, a third lived in poverty. Cudahy citizens also have higher rates of asthma than the statewide average as well as high rates of obesity, cancer, and heart disease. Of the five schools in Cudahy, two were built on or immediately adjacent to hazardous waste sites.

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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.”

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As of 2014, EPA found C8 in. The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 empowers EPA to study health impacts of chemicals and regulate its use but EPA has little authority to prevent use of chemicals before it is shown to be safe. Lauren Gates is a 3L at Vermont Law School, working towards her Masters of Environmental Law a.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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