Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

When this photo was taken, in April 2015, the well at their nearby home had been dry for 18 months and they visited the depot twice a week for water. So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. Graphic by Katie Riles/Circle of Blue.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This most recent action revokes the EPA guidance issued nearly a year earlier in October 2020, and it readopts the agency’s prior SSM policy for SIPs which was published on June 12, 2015. 2015 SSM SIP Policy. 33840 (June 12, 2015). While published as a final rule, the 2015 SSM SIP Policy was nonbinding. Johnson , 551 F.3d

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

4, 2014), Docket No. 19, 2014), Docket No. 2, 2015), 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. RP15-259-000. [5]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Join PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, the Pennsylvania Resources Council and other waste experts for a September 21 webinar on their plan to reduce waste, improve recycling efforts and bring Pennsylvania’s antiquated recycling laws into the 21st Century. percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons in 2015 to 8.59

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

While the EPA is not required by law to follow CASAC’s recommendations, it is a really bad look if the agency fails to do so; the EPA administrator is even required to explain the reasoning for deviating from CASAC recommendations. The Obama administration continued this ugly tradition.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 26, 2021

This suit was filed in 2014 when Quintanilla sued Regency. Swift intervened in 2015, more than three years after H2S was first discovered in another operator’s wellbore. For the sake of clarity that might be gained from additional Supreme Court rulings, we encourage the parties to make some more law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Under existing law, municipalities are authorized to negotiate agreements for a host fee to be paid to the municipality. Keystone filed its original expansion application in April 2014. The permit also contains conditions to ensure that the benefits KSL is to provide to the local community are realized.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

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. His topic will be “The Arc of Environmental Law and the U.S. Senate on December 16, 2014. Department of Justice.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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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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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. Bay Area Air Quality Management District (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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The Energy Law Blog

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. 186 IBLA 199 (2015). 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.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

As a former chief of the SEC Division of Enforcement's Market Abuse Unit from 2010 to 2015 and Director of the SEC's Philadelphia Regional office from 2006 to 2014, Hawke contributes his experience at the SEC and knowledge of SEC history to the SEC Historical Society’s goals.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2020 , Ruminomics Report, 2015 , Roque et al, 2021 , Duin et al., 2015 , Williams et al., 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al.,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). Both the science and law around climate change have progressed. But a lot has changed since then.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

A review of the literature by John Morrison Download report as a PDF Advocates of hate speech laws believe that because speech is a precursor to action, this in itself is proof of the relationship of cause and effect between hate speech and violence. This is not a surprise.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

For species that are long-lived and have short dispersal distances, natural selection may be too slow to keep pace with rapid climate change (Renwick & Rocca, 2015). 2015; Rehfeldt et al., 2019; Pedlar et al., Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes. BioScience , biaa061. link] Dumroese, R.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thousands of wells in the state went dry in the previous drought , in 2014 and 2015, mostly in the southern San Joaquin Valley. California’s groundwater act, signed into law during the previous drought, requires sustainable use of aquifers. For those whose wells have gone dry, getting water is a costly chore.

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest Post by Sheela Turbek , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University Imagine your favorite crime drama, something along the lines of Law and Order or CSI. Suddenly, ten years later, skeletal remains are uncovered in a marshy drainage.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

One formulation that has been suggested is, “What are the obligations under international law of a State for ensuring that activities under its jurisdiction or control that emit greenhouse gases do not cause, or substantially contribute to, serious damage to another State or State?” Once the opinion is issued, what impact would it have?

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

2015 ruling. In 2014, three of the island’s native fox species were taken off the endangered species list. At the Limits of the Law: The Challenge of Invasives in 2020. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Large, non-fishing vessels will continue to follow requirements from the. 2013 EPA Vessel General Permit.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Thank you to Governor Shapiro for coming to Yardley to sign House Bill 735 into law as Act 22 of 2023,” Rep. In late 2014 and early 2015 Sen, Santarsiero held townhalls and neighborhood meetings, as well as discussions with local stakeholders and elected officials. Warren said. “I

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014. Uber has been successful, however, in silencing female passengers who speak up about being assaulted in Uber vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This has been introduced, I believe, since 2014, and each year it gets better. Bizzarro noted the “legislation was previously introduced as HB/SB 95 during the 2019-2020 session and passed the Senate during the 2015-16 and 2017-18 [sessions] with overwhelming bipartisan support.” I thought that was a good version.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The house had been listed in 2014 by the City’s Heritage Committee on the City’s historical register as an individual resource with a rating used for buildings that “strongly maintain their original integrity and demonstrate a particular architectural style or time period.” City of Berkeley (2015) 60 Cal.4th

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014. Uber has been successful, however, in silencing female passengers who speak up about being assaulted in Uber vehicles.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. None of these studies are mentioned in Dagsvik and Moen’s discussion note, which instead refers to think tanks and well-known climate sceptics.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This has been introduced, I believe, since 2014, and each year it gets better. Bizzarro noted the “legislation was previously introduced as HB/SB 95 during the 2019-2020 session and passed the Senate during the 2015-16 and 2017-18 [sessions] with overwhelming bipartisan support.” I thought that was a good version.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. DEP issued a record 6,860 notices of violations to conventional well owners for breaking all kinds of regulations and laws in 2023. more than in 2015. Read more here. No charges have been announced, yet.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2014) 227 Cal.App.4th 4th 832, 850 (see prior summary dated July 11, 2014, which can be accessed here ).) 2015) 62 Cal.4th Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. 5th at 1170, and North Coast Rivers Alliance v. Westlands Water Dist.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Amnesty International | November 3, 2015 Shell makes billions of dollars from selling oil and gas every year, and spends a fair bit of it on glossy marketing – including a project called #makethefuture, which asks young people for bright ideas to change the world. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Arnold Porter

JULY 26, 2021

In late 2014, Thai Union Group PCL, owner of Tri-Union Seafoods LLC, d/b/a Chicken of the Sea International (COSI), announced plans to purchase BumbleBee Foods LLC from a private-equity company for $1.5 In July 2015, Thai Union disclosed that it was abandoning the stock offering because DOJ had issued a grand jury subpoena to COSI.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Amnesty International | November 3, 2015 Shell makes billions of dollars from selling oil and gas every year, and spends a fair bit of it on glossy marketing – including a project called #makethefuture, which asks young people for bright ideas to change the world. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Amnesty International | November 3, 2015 Shell makes billions of dollars from selling oil and gas every year, and spends a fair bit of it on glossy marketing – including a project called #makethefuture, which asks young people for bright ideas to change the world. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Enhanced coal production Despite the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which committed the countries of the world to lower carbon emissions, India has seen no need to reduce coal use. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Amnesty International | November 3, 2015 Shell makes billions of dollars from selling oil and gas every year, and spends a fair bit of it on glossy marketing – including a project called #makethefuture, which asks young people for bright ideas to change the world. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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