The Energy Law

DECEMBER 9, 2021

On December 3, 2021, the Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register of a settlement between Federal and State Trustees and Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve natural resource damages from a 2014 oil release. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9 In November 2021, the U.S. See United States v.

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National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 12 Jun The Feed: Vol.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

First authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill, the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (“RCPP”) is a voluntary conservation program administered by the. The post Building Blocks: The Basics of the RCPP appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

In Minnesota , stricter penalties for water overuse are signed into state law. “We Permit holders are required to report their annual water use to the state Department of Natural Resources. The program’s funding comes via the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which was signed into law in November 2021.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 13, 2025

Under current law , SARE is funded at $48 million. For example, a recent impact report from North Central SARE showed that from 2014 to 2024, 8,329 farmers reported meaningful changes , like adopting new practices or reducing inputs, after participating in a NCR-SARE project.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Penn State also found from 2008 to 2014, spreading O&G PW [oil and gas wastewater] on roads released over 4 times more radium to the environment than O&G [oil and gas] wastewater treatment facilities, and 200 times more radium than spill events. Read more here. Read more here - page 39. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Cruden , Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, will give the first David Sive Memorial Lecture on Environmental Law at Columbia Law School on Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Senate on December 16, 2014. Department of Justice.”

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

In response, the Texas Legislature passed Texas Natural Resources Code § 122.002 on September 1, 2019, which grants title to produced water to whoever takes possession of it for the purpose of treating it for subsequent beneficial use, unless a conveyance instrument expressly provides otherwise.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

4, 2014), Docket No. 19, 2014), Docket No. 1451 et seq.). [3] 3] 15 U.S.C. 717b(a), (e). [4] 4] Shell U.S. Gas & Power, LLC (“Shell”) , 148 FERC ¶ 61,163 (Sept. RP14-52-000, Emera CNG, LLC (“Emera”) , 148 FERC ¶ 61,219 (Sept. CP14-114-000, Pivotal LNG, Inc. Pivotal” or “Pivotal II”) , 151 FERC ¶ 61,006 (Apr. 2, 2015), Docket No.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

To take one example: The joint opening brief in the IGFC proceeding from consumer advocates, the Utility Reform Network, and environmental advocates, the Natural Resources Defense Council, acknowledges these groups’ historical aversion to fixed charges and the new circumstances that have motivated them to support the IGFC today.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 17, 2015

T oday, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is releasing a set of model protocols for assessing the impacts of climate change on the built environment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and state equivalents. 24, 2014). 77,802, 77,828 (Dec.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For example, in 2014 the agency imposed a civil penalty of $1,230,000—an unprecedented figure in the history of the BSEE civil penalty program. BSEE collected civil penalties in 22 cases in 2009, 26 cases in 2010, 30 cases in 2011, 31 cases in 2012, 42 cases in 2013, 53 cases in 2014, and 42 cases in 2015. million in civil penalties.

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The Energy Law

MAY 5, 2023

The lessee, MRC Permian Company, received four identical oil and gas leases from certain lessors in 2014. MRC Permian Company , — S.W.3d 21-0461, 2023 WL 3028100 (Tex.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Arctic Law & Policy Institute, explains why. _. Certain states, including Alaska, wrote individualized versions the public trust into their constitutions, laws, and court decisions. The resulting variations can draw additional resources into the public trust ambit. State law determines the scope of the public trust doctrine.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2022

On May 4, Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn and Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding joined members of the Chesapeake Bay Commission to plant a streamside forest buffer in Lancaster to improve the water quality of Landis Run, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. The Lancaster buffer includes planting 1.2

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. Theodore Roosevelt’s preservation of America’s greatest natural resources was a first step. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. This letter does not reflect the views of Vermont Law School or VJEL. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. I am only myself.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2014), another case involving an arbitration clause which incorporated the AAA rules and explicitly exempted certain claims from arbitration. In reaching its decision, the Fifth Circuit looked to the Second Circuit’s decision in NASDAQ OMX Grp., UBS Securities, LLC , 770 F.3d 3d 1010 (2d Cir.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 24, 2014

Spokane Riverkeeper, and Natural Resources Defense Council––took big coal and the railroad to court. On March 12, 2014, the Honorable John C. The court went on to state that “[t]o require more… would be to require the ‘impossible’ upon citizens seeking to enforce the law.”. Sierra Club v. BNSF Railway Co., Sierra Club v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. Non-Compliance The Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Farm Bill authorizes a variety of conservation programs that assist with natural resource management and environmental concerns on working and retired agricultural lands, which was an area of contention during the 2018 negotiations. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. proposed House and Senate bills. smaller programs.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Historically, wetland evaluations under OWES were administered by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry working in consultation with local authorities. Source: City of Guelph Official Plan (2014). Under new provincial laws, wetlands will continue to shrink and be replaced by development at an accelerating pace.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As of 2014, EPA found C8 in. Lauren Gates is a 3L at Vermont Law School, working towards her Masters of Environmental Law a. nd Policy, Water Law Certificate, and Energy Law Certificate. law school, she attended Fairmont State University in West Virginia where she earned a B.S. 94 public water systems.

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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. Citing San Franciscans for Livable Neighborhoods v. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. The majority of the world’s poor are women, and more women rely on climate vulnerable natural resources for their livelihood. By Amy Pickering. harmful effects.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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The Energy Law

JULY 21, 2016

According to one 2014 study, the total direct and indirect impact on the state is approximately $73.8 2] A large chunk of the taxes paid by oil and gas companies are severance taxes, which are levied on the production of natural resources taken from private and public land or water bottoms within the territorial boundaries of the state. [3]

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Task Force achieved its goal in 1997 when a law (Section 9106 of the PA Vehicle Code) was enacted establishing the Pennsylvania Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program. In 2013, Act 89 was passed increasing the funding for the Program from $5 Million to $35 Million annually in 2014-15. Read more here. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2022

Interestingly, the Natural Resources Defense Council also stated that, “of the approximately one million U.S. wells that were fractured between 1940 and 2014, about one-third of those were fractured after. The United States Geological Survey reported that this increase in earthquakes in the central United States began around.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

The origin of NTL 2009-G04 and SSRAs dates to 2008, when, in response to a request from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) and under the authority of 30 C.F.R. 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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

. : Not all agency rules have the force of law. In March of 2014, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers issued an “interpretive rule” regarding section 404 of the Clean Water Act, circumventing a notice and comment period. Agricultural Conservation Flexibility Act of 2014.”. section 533 of the APA. 1344(f)(1)(A)).

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The Energy Law

MAY 6, 2016

Texas, however, has enacted a state law expressly preempting local authority over a number of drilling activities. In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. In 2014, St. Colorado Oil and Gas Association , 2016 CO 29, P.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Department of Justice and as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Law & Policy in the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives during the George W. Prior to his public service he practiced labor and employment law at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Prior to that position, Mr. Ho served as a law clerk to U.S.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 13, 2017

Settoon arose out of a February 2014 collision on the Mississippi River near Convent, Louisiana. These types of damages, however, have long been prohibited under the general maritime law (the default body of federal common law governing maritime cases) under the familiar Robins Dry Dock rule.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Largely dependent on importing its natural resources, Japan had adopted nuclear power as a key component of its energy generation strategy. Japan imports most of its natural resources and virtually all of its fossil fuels, making electricity produced using these sources very expensive. 270 billion on fossil fuel imports.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 12, 2023

Case Study #2: The Freedom Farm Cooperative Between the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, a series of laws, known as Jim Crow Laws, legalized racial segregation and reinforced a white supremacist racial hierarchy in the Southern United States. Jim Crow Laws.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

AUGUST 28, 2024

The first post details an overview of the markup process, the bill as a whole, and its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law. EQIP’s special initiatives highlight specific practices or natural resources, such as the Organic Initiative, which provides separate funding pools for transitioning and certified organic producers.

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