Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In 1953, famed Indian law scholar Felix Cohen . Given the Trump Administration’s views of Indian Country and of indigenous people generally, one might predict the fall of our democracy in 2020. In 2017, Salt River Project (SRP), the owners of NGS, announced plans to . Navajo Generating Station. the plant at the end of 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog post was co-authored by Martha Kinsella, former senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. Oklahoma and Idaho have repealed their ethics laws entirely.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” How has Paxton responded? She became a team player, joining GOP AG initiatives on a range of issues.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] barrels or 0.41

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4 The letter points to the fact the Council was only informed on August 6, 2020-- last year-- of the Penn State study which is due out this December. “It At issue are two independent studies from Penn State University. Read more here. ?? million gallons in Pennsylvania alone. Read more here.

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E2 Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

1335 (2020), discussed in April 2020 on this blog. 10, 2022), discussed here , the plaintiff university asserted a common law state tort claim to recover damages from contamination and imposition of a restrictive covenant. 25, 2017, arbitration award Apr. Christian , 140 S. But note that in W. State Univ. Tri-Realty Co.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2021

The report also calls on international actors to better enforce wartime guidelines and law, and on warring parties to establish unobstructed humanitarian access during conflict. . As established by several areas of international law, safe drinking water and food should be protected rights for civilians during armed conflict.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

coastline is projected to see an average of 10 to 12 inches of sea level rise between 2020 and 2050, which is equal to the amount measured over the last 100 years. California imposes a number of statutory and common law disclosure requirements but does not mandate disclosure of sea level rise risk in real estate transactions.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

From 1980 to 2020, there were an average of 7 billion-dollar events per year. But from 2015-2020, the average was 16 per year. 2020 had a record-breaking 22 billion-dollar events. By the time Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, FEMA was already dealing with the aftermaths of two other huge storms. Escalating impacts.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan. The Trump and Biden administrations ignored the 2017 petition, meant to compel the E.P.A As a legal issue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2022

Grillo told National Public Radio this week that, with virtually no laws to prevent the trafficking, the US gun industry creates an “unstable neighborhood.” Here at home, our violence has reached a record-breaking 45,222 deaths from firearms in 2020. million weapons in 2020, nearly triple the number in 2000.

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Environmental Progress

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I regret to inform the Subcommittee that the scope, power, and law-breaking of the Censorship Industrial Complex are even worse than we had realized back in March. EIP and its successor, the Virality Project (VP), urged Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms to censor social media posts by ordinary citizens and elected officials alike.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Add to that the steady drumbeat of stories about states instituting voter suppression laws , the recent US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. The Justice Department would then either “preclear” that law and allow the state to enact it, or reject it and direct the state to either revise it or simply not enact.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. The waivers in the law reduced farmer costs for managing polluted runoff.

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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 In 2020, according to state figures, 85.3 Confrontation on New Permit.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

3] The following year, the IWG set initial SCC estimates at $26 per metric ton using a 3% central discount rate for 2020, and later increased this estimate to $42. [4] 7] In 2021, the Biden administration re-established an IWG, which set interim estimates for SCC at $51 per metric ton for 2020, using a 3% central discount rate. [8]

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

This year promises to be the ‘Year of Climate’ in international courts and tribunals with opinions slated to be coming down from the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice. Duarte Agostinho and Others v.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

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. May 1, 2020). By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 133.

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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. On July 29, 2020, DEP inspected the well in response to complaints it was leaking gas and issued notices of violations for that and for abandoning the well without plugging it. Obviously, it wasn’t.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

That would be at best a replay of 2017-2019 in terms of environmental policy. At present, this looks like a close race, as in 2020., Trump’s criminal law troubles. The next election could transform U.S. environmental policy, for better or worse. There would probably be an even greater impact due to shifts within the GOP.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators a record total of 6,860 violations for all infractions of law and regulations in 2023, nearly 52% more than in 2021. Read more here (2017-2021). Court Order (2020 violations) -- TW Phillips 1 - Clarion County, Monroe Twp. [ Read more here. Read more here (2022). Read more here.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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 district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. 4, 2020); California v.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2017 Trump announces U.S. 2020 U.S. EPA approves waiver for California to regulate CO2 from new cars. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

Comments made at two Senate budget hearings last week again put the spotlight on how Pennsylvania’s environmental and pipeline safety laws are not strong enough to prevent environmental damage and protect public safety in new pipeline construction. It has become a cost of doing business. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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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. At a meeting on Wednesday 23 September 2020 the German government decided to propose to the parliament (Bundestag) a so called EEG Novelle 2021 , featuring the new 2030 and 2050 goals for renewable electricity.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The funding is from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. We thank President Biden for quickly moving these funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support Pennsylvania citizens and communities.” While this is a fraction of vehicles in the state, it’s more than double the number in December 2017.” Read more here.

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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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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 on February 4, 2021 in an effort to, in her words, comprehensively "overhaul[] and moderniz[e]" US antitrust laws. 2017); In re George's Foods, LLC, et al., Major Provisions of the Legislation. The legislation[[N:§ 4(b).]]

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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. The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. What’s the CES?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 31, 2022

Her background is in labor and employment law. In a 2019 case, Judge Jackson held that environmental groups couldn’t challenge the border wall under various laws because Congress had stripped the courts of jurisdiction. Regrettably, that’s a correct statement of the law. Probably the most significant ruling was South Carolina v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2023

According to national averages between the years 2015 and 2017, among farming, fishing, and forestry workers, 19 percent are SNAP recipients. Luckily, a study released in 2020 can help us understand the kinds of employers whose low wages force their workers to rely on SNAP. For cashiers (across all retail), it’s 23 percent.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

So, instead of having to import grain as was the case before the Green Revolution, by 2017 India was the world’s largest producer of pulses and jute and the second-largest producer of wheat , rice and sugarcane. In September 2020, it passed three farm laws that were repealed in November 2021.

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2023

As the frequency and number of climate change cases continue to rise, a robust body of legal precedent is forming, shaping a well-defined field of climate law. The Report builds upon previous reports from 2017 and 2020 , providing a comprehensive update on the current state of, and trends in, climate change litigation worldwide.

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