The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” Do State Nuisance Claims Related to Climate Change Arise Under Federal Law? the district court found that the Plaintiffs’ claims supported federal question jurisdiction because those state-law claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.”

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2020

There are several categories of actions that NASA would not need conduct a full NEPA analysis, unless extraordinary circumstances arise. Hunter Sutherland is currently a 2L at Vermont Law School and is the Editor-in-Chief of Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Vol. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. forthcoming 2021.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR).

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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. This session, the legislature amended the animal waste system permitting law, G.S. Under the N.C.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Good samaritan food laws across the country provide liability protection for those who donate food. Next to paper, food waste is the second largest category sent to landfills—it accounts for 18% of the waste stream. Good Samaritan laws are part of the U.S. legal tradition because the promote good deeds by limiting liability.

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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). Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cryptoasset update, focusing on new legislation relating to stablecoins and the Law Commission report on digital assets. As part of our social commentary, we look at: The publication of the Law Society’s Diversity and Inclusion framework for law firms. Human rights protections in the UK.

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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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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Law §§ 35-0105, 37-0115.]]. The law would also require guidance on alternative foams and equipment that do not contain PFAS. EPA Granted More Time for Submission of Brief in Challenges to Methylene Chloride Risk Evaluation. 14560 (Mar. 17, 2021).]] 15, 2021).]]

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Where an agency adopts an administrative appeal process, the common law exhaustion rule applies in CEQA cases and the remedy’s scope is defined by the specific jurisdiction’s relevant and available local procedures. City and County of San Francisco (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 5th 470, 492-493, my 4/13/21 post on which can be found here.)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Residents have had to make their own arrangements for clean drinking water since that time because the affected areas are outside the 2,500 foot zone of presumption protected in state law. 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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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

For the time being, no regulation is on the books, and extended delay might prompt legal action from environmentalists. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law. Steve Daines (R-MT).

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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. The House bill ( H.R. 33926 (June 28, 2021).]]

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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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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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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. 2225 ) this past summer.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to Venable law firm, in “Justice Kennedy’s “significant nexus” test from Rapanos , the courts concluded that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ property have a significant nexus to a nearby lake and are therefore waters of the United States. United States. . The report finds that the U.S. Articles by authors with U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. North Dakota v.

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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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