Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

California Governor Jerry Brown in Bonn for the 2018 climate summit. Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S. states or other subnational goverments.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. This “supranational status” means that these treaties are above the “regular” laws in the legal hierarchy.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2022

The report explains that the high emitters, the US and the European Union (EU) which are both pledging net-zero emissions by 2050, are only on a trajectory to reduce emissions based on 2015 levels by 27% by 2030. Of the 100 countries with net-zero carbon neutrality targets currently only 14 have net-zero targets signed into law.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). EU NDC and European Green Deal In 2020, the EU submitted its NDCs before the UNFCCC, on behalf of the EU and its Member States, containing a target of 55% reduction in GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 2030, updating its 2015 commitment of 40% reduction.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

There were 2 violations in 2017; -- Howard Drilling : There was 1 violation in 2015; These companies also reported road spreading their oil and gas well wastewater. Read more here.] -- Pennfield Energy: Did not submit any waste reports for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, although DEP did issue 2 notices of violation for 2 wells in 2021.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4 acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). In 2018, the City submitted a new form of proposed lease to the lessees that provided only for “dry” leases. acre feet per acre. The trial court ruled in favor of the County.

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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. In January 2018, all three agencies held a public meeting to share the results of the study with residents. Keystone filed its original expansion application in April 2014.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018). Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 ” (2021). Egli, Florian.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2015. DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9% Read more here. Read more here.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Now, the penalties imposed by Acts 2015, No. July 1, 2015 cannot be applied to tax periods prior to July 1, 2015. 47:1602(A) is no longer applicable to amounts later assessed on taxpayers who timely filed their returns and remitted the amount of tax shown as due on their tax returns. [1] 2018-1640 (La. 1/9/20), cert.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s the lowest level for the month of August since 2018 and it continues a downward trend. And we’ve seem successes in other GCF Task Force countries, in particular in Indonesia, which has been a real leader over the last several years in achieving large reductions in deforestation – a 64% reduction from 2020-2022 as compared with 2015-2017.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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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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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. In 2015, the environment ministry acknowledged that the plant was “causing flooding, loss of farmlands and conflict among farmers, herdsmen and fishermen.”

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Now, the penalties imposed by Acts 2015, No. July 1, 2015 cannot be applied to tax periods prior to July 1, 2015. 47:1602(A) is no longer applicable to amounts later assessed on taxpayers who timely filed their returns and remitted the amount of tax shown as due on their tax returns. [1] 2018-1640 (La. 1/9/20), cert.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

DEP is working with the Storage Tank Advisory Committee on a new version. -- Draft Designation Criteria for Regulated Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) originally published in 2015.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In September 2018, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The comment period for the rule closed in November 2018, and comments are still under review according to the. 2015 ruling. At the Limits of the Law: The Challenge of Invasives in 2020. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. for the EAB.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

In 2018, Parliament enacted the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , S.C. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The battle stretched out over seven years between 2015 and 2021. Before it was all over, local, county, state, and federal laws, an interstate compact, and an international agreement came into play. By April of 2015, the site for the bottling plant had switched again to another part of the commercial area of the town.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

Kahn, 2015. " & Zhao, Daxuan, 2018. " Such estimates are useful but they are not "laws of physics". Rhode, 2012. Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 102(3), pages 238-244, May. Kahn Matthew E.,

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Physics World

APRIL 7, 2022

Spencer Powers: I was an MBA student at MIT in 2015 when I met Yichen, who was doing a PhD with Marin Solja?i? In 2018 we assembled a team of 15 employees and the company got its first round of funding. How did Lightelligence get going? who is also a co-founder of Lightelligence.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

EPA’s first rulemaking under Section 108(b), for the Hardrock Mining sector, was not completed until 2018, so minimal precedent exists under Section 108(b). Moreover, pending litigation challenging EPA’s 2018 findings creates uncertainty regarding how a court will view EPA’s authority under this provision. State law requirements.

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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. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Natural Gas Withdrawals Total natural gas industry consumptive water use in the Susquehanna River Basin between 2008 and 2018 was 26.3 SRBC approved a total of 261 surface water withdrawal points for use by the natural gas industry between 2008 and 2018, the most recent analysis available. billion gallons. Read more here.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

County of Fresno (2018) 6 Cal.8 Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal. County of San Diego (2018) 27 Cal.App.5 Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. 5 th 892 (“ Golden Door ”) (analyzed in my 10/8/18 post here ).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

These rights are supported by a relatively sophisticated set of environmental laws, with a long-awaited Climate Change Bill in the pipeline. It also recognised that South Africa had international law obligations flowing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The fact Loyalsock Creek is classified by DEP as an exceptional value stream -- the best water quality that must be protected with no degradation; and was designated the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year by DCNR and called a “timeless treasure” in the middle of this fight, was not enough to protect the watershed.

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