MGKF Law

JULY 5, 2022

May 26, 2022), the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Seventh Amendment guarantees the right to a jury trial for defendants facing subrogation and recoupment claims under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (the “OPA”).

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Court’s embrace of the ill-defined “ major questions doctrine ” as the rationale for refusing to give any deference to EPA’s admittedly “plausible” interpretation of section 111 d of the Clean Air Act has raised the specter of the Court’s conservative majority taking a sharp axe to any number of environmental regulations.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post covers the most significant legislation affecting state water quality protections: AQUACULTURE PERMITTING Replace the existing NPDES General Permit for aquaculture operations. The Clean Water Act requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for any release of waste to surface waters.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The permit was issued under the Clean Water Act in March 2019 – the same year the project received FERC approval – and will allow construction crews to “clear, grade, excavate and place fill material” on site to build the plant, which is being built on a 1,000-acre site on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, south of Lake Charles. [1]

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2016

The judgment is the latest in a suit the EPA filed against CITGO under the Clean Water Act for a 2006 spill at the oil company’s St. District Court Judge Richard Haik found CITGO negligent, and, based on the factors in the Clean Water Act, imposed a $6 million civil penalty. Charles refinery. Year in Rev.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2017

Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the Eastern District’s exercise of jurisdiction and dismissal on the merits of a headline-grabbing environmental law tort suit against 97 oil and gas companies, seeking to hold those entities responsible for Louisiana’s coastal erosion.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

2015-011-L ). DEP said the proposed regulation ensures DEP receives the information it needs to meet its statutory obligation under state law and as a trustee under the Environmental Rights Amendment to the state constitution. DEP is required by the federal Clean Water Act to submit a report to the U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

State law requirements. CCR Rule Damage Cases: EPA also reviewed the CCR damage cases evaluated for the agency’s 2015 CCR Rule. These included documented evidence of CCR-caused “proven damage” in 17 groundwater and 10 surface water contamination cases. Modern conditions at facilities rather than legacy practices or conditions.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

not Massachusetts) and to the one nearly each fireworks control law are regulating for public safety by a state fire marshall for “firework shooters, explosive blasters, explosive manufacturing, and explosive sales.” 49 states plus DC allow some or all types of consumer fireworks (. Levels drop back down by noon on July 5 (.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

In addition to the environmental policy changes in the budget, several bills amended environmental laws. 14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. Among the more significant changes: Stormwater.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. law, but it can guide the use of existing authority. Section 26 (a) of the bill amended language in G.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. EPA established an accountability framework and state water pollution limits (TMDLs) for nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment. in Environmental Law.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Following a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, scientific study, EPA issued a “proposed determination” that effectively prohibited the issuance of the Clean Water Act (CWA) permit necessary to construct the mine. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. These failures aren’t unheard of. appeared first on.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When the a law is focused on one impact of coal, attempts to take into account other harms can get mired in controversies about considering “co-benefits” and direct versus indirect or cumulative impacts. The existence of these laws is a testament to the environmental harms of the activity. Download as PDF.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

The Southern Nevada Water Authority, the regional water supplier, built an intake at the bottom of the reservoir. It was completed in 2015, and cost $817 million. Last week, the policy started to pay off, when for the first time, the water authority activated the pumping station for the bottom intake. In March, Gov.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The association also built a state-of-the art water quality monitoring network across the lake’s 192 square-mile watershed. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

The Clean Water Act (CWA) and grant programs contained in the Farm Bill are the primary federal mechanisms for curbing agricultural water pollution. However, these structures have not sufficiently addressed agriculture’s impact on the nation’s water resources. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James, a faith-based grassroots organization fighting to reduce pollution in the community, and lawyers at Earthjustice, a national nonprofit environmental law organization, and other community groups led the years long battle. billion complex in St.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In its friend of the court brief in the Idaho case, the American Petroleum Association, the American Gas Association, and the Association for Oil Pipelines complained that the Clean Water Act led to a permitting system so “onerous” that the failure to obtain a permit after years of waiting “can be ruinous.”

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. The first conservation laws came in then, making it illegal to fell a teak tree under a certain size. The War Between Preservation and Conservation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2022

2015-011-L ). Unfortunately, polluters may not know where downstream drinking water intakes are located, and are not in a position to determine if their pollution event is a threat. Finally, HB 1842 would likely cost DEP’s federally delegated authority to implement the federal Clean Water Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If There’s no excuse for these blooms to be happening in Michigan.”.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

Last week the Environmental Protect Agency and Department of the Army announced the agencies’ intent to initiate new rulemaking that restores the Obama era waters of the United States rule that was in place pre-2015, and before the current Trump era rule.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. United States , 547 U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

There is nothing attractive, though, about Lake Erie’s annual algal bloom, or the harmful blooms that now contaminate so many of America’s iconic waters, among them the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Champlain, and California’s Clear Lake. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. South Dakota Federal Court Granted Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcement of Laws Targeting Pipeline Protesters. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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Vorys Law

APRIL 13, 2023

For those states where the new rule is blocked, which include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming, the pre-2015 guidance (fka (..)

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. The Food Safety Modernization Act, an umbrella law, was signed by President Obama in 2011. By the Numbers. $15

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The House, by a narrow margin, passed the Build Back Better Act that has billions for lead pipe removal, drinking water systems, and more. The EPA proposes reinstating the Clean Water Act definition that existed before 2015. environmental law. environmental law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us. In response, 27 states sued , and the rule was put on hold.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An Arizona federal court has vacated the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR). CV-20-00266 , the Court ruled that the Trump Administration’s regulatory effort to define the scope of the Clean Water Act (i.e. In the case of Pasqua Yaqui Tribe v. Sections 1311(a), 1367(7) and 1362(12).

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Acoel

JANUARY 10, 2022

On December 7, 2021, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers jointly issued a formal Proposed Rule to define “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Trump administration itself reinstated this pre-2015 approach as a placeholder prior to its 12 th -hour 2020 Rule.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sams holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Business Administration from Concordia University-Portland and a master’s of legal studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma. In 2015, the Obama administration announced that it would ban chlorpyrifos, but former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in 2017.

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