Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. Counties, not the state, regulate new wells. Could a state groundwater regulation law passed in 2014 prevent farmers who are cut off from surface water from pumping so much groundwater that household wells go dry?

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 10, 2023

The American Chemistry Council case deals with the interplay of CEQA with another statutory scheme, the so-called “Green Chemistry” law (Health & Safety Code, § 25251 et seq.) and its implementing Safer Consumer Products regulations (Cal. Foam products with MDI were identified as potential priority products in 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

Dean served as the first Upper Neuse Riverkeeper for over seven years, and later became the first Yadkin Riverkeeper in 2008, where he also served as Executive Director until 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. The fees were last updated before that in 2014. It was in development for over two and a half years.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

DEP has said well permit fees have not generated the revenue needed to support the Oil and Gas Program for at least the last 9 years-- since 2014. Visit DEP’s Oil and Gas Program Bipartisan Infrastructure Law webpage for more information. Read more here. Read more here. DEP’s Non-Regulatory Agenda has no schedule for consideration.

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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. Though the current irrigation season is nearly over, the emergency regulation extends for one year. Transcript.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 13, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposed rule to restore criminal penalties for accidental killing of migratory birds, revoking the January 7, 2021, final regulation that limited the enforcement of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. That has been the letter of the law for the past century.”.

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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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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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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

Oregon argued that while a state may not regulate wholly out-of-state commerce, there is no constitutional bar to a state regulating its fuels market based on a product’s objectively measured contributions to in-state harms ( i.e. , regulating based on harm caused by a fuel’s carbon intensity).

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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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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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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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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

In Massachusetts, conservation commissions have generally regulated work in wetlands since the 1960s under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, Mass. John died in 2006, and Ann, then the sole owner, sold the property to Pesas in 2014. One can fill or otherwise alter a wetland under an approval known as an “order on conditions.”

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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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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 1999, the SEC Historical Society shares, preserves, and advances knowledge of the history of financial regulation. It is a registered non-profit and independent organization that maintains a virtual museum and archive of the SEC.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. Hughes water supply options for Teravalis, some available now, others that will require a change in state law and regulation, include tapping another aquifer and delivering water by pipeline.

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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.” There are a number of pipelines that were informally abandoned prior to the abandonment regulations taking effect. Parts 192 and 195 (2016). PHMSA has recognized that some pipelines are exceptional.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Going into 2020, anticipated federal regulation will significantly affect the nation’s response to the Emerald Ash Borer and aquatic invasives in ballast water. This means that regulated articles, such as firewood, cannot be removed from specific. A lack of effective regulation has already led to a proliferation of invasives in U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. Program Linkage : The Cap-and-Trade Regulations permit California to link its Program with that of another jurisdiction to promote cost effectiveness and facilitate greater emissions reductions.

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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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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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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2014, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of BP on all claims, finding no material fact in dispute about BP’s regulatory compliance. In the same lawsuit and based on the same allegations of regulatory noncompliance, Abbott and plaintiff Food & Water Watch, Inc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

No matter how hard utilities, regulators, and policymakers try to prop up coal plants , these plants have continued to succumb to economic pressure since they just can’t compete with renewables, such as wind and solar. The list goes on, but you get the point. However, the past five years haven’t exactly been the best years for coal.

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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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Law Columbia

AUGUST 21, 2013

On August 21, CCCL released a new white paper that evaluates the legal workability and constitutionality of regulating imports into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or “RGGI” (for background on RGGI, the Northeastern states’ cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide, see prior posts ).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T T accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 10, 2022

Tackling Food Insecurity in Urban Food Deserts: A Legal Toolkit By Colleen McGrath , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 10, 2022 Despite their crowded streets, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Newark, Chicago, and other large urban communities are often considered food deserts.

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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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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 CEQA’s “subsequent review” rules are elucidated.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

“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. Thus it is necessary to assess this regulation,” Hariadi says. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The court concluded that FDA did not unlawfully delegate its statutory duties, exceed its statutory authority, or contradict its statutory authority by issuing the GRAS Rule, and ultimately upheld this regulation. FDA Regulation of GRAS Substances. to be safe under the conditions of their intended use,” or GRAS.[[N:21 N:21 U.S.C.

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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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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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping. 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. wetland cover, and only about 1.6%

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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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