The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2020

Those provisions include the following four significant changes to the business tax provisions contained in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Taxpayers intending to take advantage of the expanded use of NOLs per the CARES Act should consider the impact on other changes in the tax law brought about by TCJA 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Lacastro (2019) Anthony 564 OG (2020) Apex Energy (2020) ARG Resources (2017) ARG Resources (2018) ARG Resources (2019) ARG Resources (2020) ARMAC Resources (2019) Atlas Resources (2016) Auto Forge, Inc. 2017) B & R Resources (2017) B & R Resources (2020) Bacyros Erie (2020) Bard Oil Co. 2017) Dev Well, Inc.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb. 27, 2018; request for supplemental briefing Feb. 1, 2018; ruling Feb. A few days after the California court issued its order, North Dakota and Texas asked the Wyoming federal court to lift a stay that the court had imposed in December 2017. BP p.l.c. , Trump , No.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Looking at the actual votes behind the LCV score, it turns out that Scalise has voted on the environmental side of just five of the votes scored by LCV since he recovered from his shooting in 2017. Three others weren’t really about the environment: two to remove Confederate statues and one to increase reporting of hate crimes.)

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

These are specifically the Atlantic humpback whale UME in 2017, the North Atlantic right whale (NARW) UME in 2017, and the Atlantic minke whale UME in 2018. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Sea surface temperature trend 1993 – 2018, from European Atlas of the Seas. 2017) Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth’s energy locally, Geophys. 2018) Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation, Nature 556: 191-196. The latter is often suggested.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

2018 Year in Review: Public agencies prevailed in 65% of CEQA cases analyzed. Over the course of 2018, Latham & Watkins lawyers reviewed all 57 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) cases, both published and unpublished, that came before California appellate courts. In 2017, only 43% of cases focused on EIRs.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

July 28, 2018. 14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. In these older platted subdivisions, H374 deems all excess impervious surface added before January 1, 2017 to be in compliance with the stormwater rules.

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Energy & the Law

MAY 12, 2022

September 2017: Hughes, as lessor, enters into a paid-up oil and gas lease with CJM. February 2018: Hughes assigns the minerals to Decatur Mineral Partners conveying all “claims and interests in and to the [“… well(s), land(s) and/or unit(s)”]. September 2018: Hughes sues CJM; dismissed for lack of standing.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. , Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Sierra Club v.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Kelly moved for partial summary judgment against Aethon, citing a December 15, 2017 letter and April 17, 2018 letter as satisfying the requirements of La. The district court made this ruling despite the fact that the December 15, 2017 letter closely tracked the language of La. respectively.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 31, 2022

United States (2018). 2018), vacated and remanded, 912 F.3d She’s been a federal district judge in South Carolina since 2010. Her background is in labor and employment law. Probably the most significant ruling was South Carolina v. United States, 329 F. 3d 214 (D.S.C. 3d 720 (4th Cir. & Gas Co. Randall, 333 F. 3d 552 (D.S.C.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2018, the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C That’s also in line with earlier research (Henley and King, 2017) on the high RCP8.5 2 is even referred to as a single temperature goal (Rajamani and Werksman, 2018) by other Articles (Art. 4256-4262, 2017. 20160458, 2018. warming limit in the early 2030s. 12, Forster et al.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The well was inspected by DEP on October 1, 2017 and violations were issued, but the inspection report is not available. This well was inspected by DEP on January 29, 2018 and issued notice of violation for being abandoned - inspection report not available. DEP’s inspection report did not record any follow-up actions.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2021

House Resolution 948 was introduced in 2018 in response to concerns raised about PennVEST’s approval of two low-interest loans totaling nearly $51 million for a New Hampshire-based company to purchase more than 60,000 acres of private forest land in Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties. “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Notable 21 st century wildfires Since 2017, many western states have experienced record-breaking wildfires. And California’s eight largest wildfires on record have all occurred since 2017. In 2018, California’s Camp Fire burned the town of Paradise nearly entirely to the ground and claimed the lives of at least 85 people.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. Additionally, the agencies found that the amendments could result in long-term cost savings.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 29, 2024

Since Premier Ford came to power in 2018, gas plant use has tripled in Ontario. Similarly, the IESO plans to provide 25 per cent of the electricity we need from burning gas for the next six years, up from just 4 per cent in 2017. Wildfire season has begun, and experts expect it will be another catastrophic year.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

These new violations are separate from violations covered in a 2017 consent order and agreement DEP signed with Energy Corporation of America-- now Greylock-- covering pollution incidents at the 17 well sites. million because the company paid the penalty in full before January 31, 2018. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) This isn’t a universally accepted notion – Hawkins et al (2017) for instance, suggest we should use a baseline from the 18th Century – but it is one that easier to operationalise. 1841-1856, 2017. El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.)

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Anadarko took leases from Ferrer and Tantalo in January 2017 and in March 2018 informed Cromwell that because it never received an executed well election the leases had expired and had been leased to “third parties”. Anadarko said this also was a mistake.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2018 University Research Group of the Year Finalist, TechWorks Awards. 2018 University Research Award Finalist, Elektra Awards. 2017 Industry Fellowship, Royal Society. 2017 100A1 Ambassador, Lloyd’s Register Foundation. 2013 Early Career Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The current EEG stems from 2017 and by that time some fundamental changes were made to the system, as discussed on this blog. OGEL , 2018 (2).) Under the new system of the EEG 2017, the state provides certain renewable energy expansion targets for each form of renewable energy in Germany. F. , & Nieuwenhout, C.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Before April 4, Lawson said she did not have wastewater dumped on her road for more than six years after the Environmental Hearing Board case she brought a successful challenge to the DEP road dumping approval process in 2017-18. Up until the 2018 decision, they had pretty much limited themselves to dirt roads. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When asked in a 2017 interview about their role, Butler replied: “I would have removed land-based missiles from our arsenal a long time ago. Cartwright’s coauthor for that 2017 column was William J. Subsequent defense secretaries Chuck Hagel, who served from 2015 to 2017, and Gen. Perry, US defense secretary from 1994 to 1997.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But when the PC government was elected in June 2018, it cancelled those incentives. In Q2 of 2018, the last quarter with incentives, 3 per cent of vehicle sales were EVs. In Q4 of 2018, the first quarter with no Ontario incentives, EV sales dropped to just 1 per cent of vehicles sold. MT in 2017 to 12.4 What happened?

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

But at the Coastal Commission’s November 8, 2017 de novo hearing on the project, the Commission rejected staff’s recommendation and ultimately voted 7-5 to approve the CDP. Had the Commission followed its staff’s recommendation, the story would have ended there. The Writ Litigation and Trial Court Decision.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

The violations occurred between 2018 and 2021 in Chester, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware, Perry, and York Counties. million penalty to DEP for the 2018 Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline explosion in Beaver County. Sunoco agreed to pay $660,000.00 see list below) [Energy Transfer Partners also paid a $30.6

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million to pay for DCNR operations from Oil and Gas Lease Fund; -- FY 2018-19 appropriations for Susquehanna and Delaware River Basin Commissions and Interstate Commission on the Potomac River cut by half - $477,000; and -- FY 2018-19 transfer of $48.7 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

Using quantum-mechanics-based calculations, two independent teams, led by Russell Hemley at George Washington University in the US and Yanming Ma at Jilin University in China, predicted in 2017 that lanthanum hydride (LaH 10 ) could be superconducting. A class of currently unexplored superconductors.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. In their latest research, Dey, Ganguly and colleagues modelled how atmospheric attenuation and soiling affected India’s solar-energy output in 2001–2018. Satellite data.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2018, for example, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ) noted that there was generous funding for “solar technology (including photovoltaics R&D), manufacturing programs, and vehicle technology (including battery tech, electrification, and advanced engines). The bill passed in 2019 was no exception.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

A history of North Korean nuclear tests North Korea conducted six explosive nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017. Analysis of satellite imagery shows limited activity at this site between the fall of 2018 and the spring of 2022. The most recent test generated the largest explosive yield.

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