CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Board was no doubt counting votes at the next election, and, in any event, was not undertaking the factual and legal analysis required of a lead agency by CEQA.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

The Supreme Court has recognized a small category of state-law claims that “arise under federal law” for purposes of federal question jurisdiction, “because federal law is a necessary element of the. claim for relief.” 3d 805 (7th Cir. In addition, a federal district court in New York dismissed New York City’s lawsuit against various U.S.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

But this most recent legal dustup arises in the context of the City’s role as lessor of some 6,100 acres of land it owns in the County. acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). This uneasy history has led to many disputes over the years. In this era of wildfire and drought, there will no doubt be many more.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Aside from the environmental implications of eliminating water quality monitoring for nutrients released from aquaculture operations, the provision raises another legal question and policy question: Does the provision violate the N.C. Constitution by allowing the legislature to intervene directly in the issuance of environmental permits?

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. The court found that “there was no proof offered at trial that established material misrepresentations or omissions contained in any of ExxonMobil’s public disclosures that satisfy the applicable legal standard.”

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not. What is disputed is whether it is just or legal to convict Ward of felony crimes for acting peacefully and responsibly to prevent greater harm to the climate.”

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. North Dakota v. 16-1242 et al. 21, 2016). Arizona Board of Regents , No.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 7, 2021

N:In re High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation 2015 WL 5159441 (N.D. 2, 2015).]] In addition to the related charges against Rodgers, the indictment was followed up by cases targeting alleged no-poach agreements, another category of emphasis by the DOJ, as well as another wage-fixing indictment.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

3d 605 do not apply to decisions that do not deprive adjacent property owners of significant property interests, and which have only a de minimus effect on land, and CEQA notices for environmental determinations – such as the notice of exemption determination by a nonelected official at issue here – fall into that category.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The PA Supreme Court’s decision reversed a lower court ruling that had put up a major barrier to reimbursement of legal costs for environmental lawsuits brought by non-profits and residents. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Investors were told that their loans would be provided to a panel of high-quality law firms to fund legal cases with a high likelihood of success when, in actual fact, the funds were paid to just three law firms, all of which Schools had an interest in. Six years later, in 2015, the PRA and FCA published a report on the failure of HBOS.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

In 2015, under the Obama administration, the EPA and the Corps issued a new rule expanding the major categories of regulated waters while retaining the case-specific significant nexus determination for questionable waters. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, in 2015 and 2016, the US eased restrictions on travel, remittances, trade, and the telecommunications and financial services sectors.[[N:Congressional The CACR permits travel-related transactions in connection with only 12 categories of travel[[N: 31 C.F.R. For example, travel to Cuba was not as open as commonly believed.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA said remand would allow the Agency to revisit certain legal, policy, and scientific assumptions, approaches, and decisions. million pounds of benzene that it imported during 2013–2015 as well as large quantities of three other substances. 33926 (June 28, 2021).]] 20, 2021); see Cal. 22, § 69511(b)(4).]]

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The California federal court said the substantive legal issues in the District of Wyoming case were distinct from the procedural issues at issue in this action. 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. North Coast Rivers Alliance v. California Department of Food & Agriculture , No. judgment Feb.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EPA inspectors found that the two companies failed to submit timely quadrennial reports regarding their imports of five chemical substances between 2012 and 2015 under the 2016 CDR Rule. It describes how EPA has identified candidate PFAS in 24 categories for which the Agency will require companies to perform testing under TSCA Section 4.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Solicitation for data on the presence and treatment of PFAS in wastewater discharges : On March 17, 2021, EPA published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeking information and data regarding discharges of PFAS from industrial facilities in the Organic Chemicals, Plastics, and Synthetic Fibers point source category.[[N: 14560 (Mar.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS. “In United States.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

For the time being, no regulation is on the books, and extended delay might prompt legal action from environmentalists. It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Sacketts have argued consistently (with support of the Pacific Legal Foundation) that they do not need a permit to develop their land because Justice Scalia’s “continuous surface connection” test is the controlling law from Rapanos.”. More News: Prosecutors drop China Initiative case against MIT’s Gang Chen – Science.

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