Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. The OVEC coal bailouts, which the PUCO approved in 2014, were set to expire in 2024 and only applied to utility customers who had a stake in OVEC. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov.

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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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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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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. T accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles. Toyota workers urged to reject union Grace Macaluso | Windsor Star | February 19, 2014 The head of a U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2

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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 Blog

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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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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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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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 This year's budget investments are just the latest result of the Wolf administration's commitment to protect and preserve our precious natural resources.

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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 Blog

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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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

The current barriers to implementing assisted migration include the established laws and attitudes about forest restoration in land management agencies and the logistical constraints of time, money, and personnel needed to plant the trees (Dumroese et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., Placing Forestry in the Assisted Migration Debate. Jaquish, B.

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Montrose

JULY 6, 2021

Founded in 1994 and based in Laguna Beach, California, EI’s team of biologists, wetland scientists, archeologists and GIS specialists provide comprehensive natural resource consulting and regulatory compliance services and comprehensive environmental management programs for large-scale projects.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

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

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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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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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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Acoel

MAY 12, 2021

Beyond interstate streams, the doctrine has also been applied to other shared natural resources, including anadromous fish. The effort is always to secure an equitable apportionment without quibbling over formulas. This change suggests the Court may now be inclined to grant leave more freely to resolve interstate controversies.

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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 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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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 3, 2019

a case concerning Texas partnership law. At the end of a four-week trial held in 2014, the jury found that ETP and Enterprise created a partnership to market and pursue a pipeline project and that Enterprise had failed to prove that it complied with its duty of loyalty. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. ,

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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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The Energy Law Blog

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 Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

2014) held that punitive damages were not available under the rationale of an earlier Supreme Court case, Miles v. In dissent, Justice Ginsburg wrote that Atlantic Sounding controlled, because there was a long history of punitive damages awards as part of the general maritime law, albeit a paucity in the specific context of unseaworthiness.

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The Energy Law Blog

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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The Energy Law Blog

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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The Energy Law Blog

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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. September 20, 2022

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JUNE 20, 2023

Where a project, like the Regents’, “is subject to variable future conditions – for example, unusual rainy weather, tree growth, impact of pests and diseases, changing natural resources, etc. – After analyzing relevant principles from case law supporting its conclusion (see Citizens for a Sustainable Treasure Island v.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

Alas, we have arrived at BlueStone Natural Resources II, LLC v. The El Paso Court of Appeals, relying on Heritage Resources , has held that a no-deductions clause requiring royalties on the “gross value received” is mere surplusage in a lease requiring royalties based on “market value at the well.” El Paso 2014, pet.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2020

On September 14, 2014, James Mays, a valve technician and an employee of Furmanite American (“Furmanite”) died while servicing valves on a platform that was part of Chevron’s gas gathering system and located in Louisiana’s territorial waters. Thus, Mays’s death was covered by the LHWCA and Chevron was not entitled to state-law tort immunity.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2018

On Thursday, a divided panel of the Texas Court of Appeals in Houston held that the 2014-2015 drop in oil prices is not a force majeure for purposes of general force majeure contractual protection. In TEC Olmos, LLC v.

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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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Vermont Law

JULY 14, 2016

On the evening of July 7—one week after Vermont celebrated its labeling law for genetically engineered (GE) foods going into effect—the U.S. Vermont’s law requires GE foods to have labels saying, “produced with genetic engineering” and prohibits those labels from using the word “natural.” In May 2014, Gov.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

This clarification comes after a number of leaks in 2014 and 2015 from pipelines that were believed to be “abandoned.” However, a determination on whether a pipeline is terminated will necessarily depend on the contractual terms and individual state laws. Parts 192 and 195 (2016).

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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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