CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th Holding and Analysis The Third District’s opinion in Butte IV is a thoroughgoing and straightforward examination of the Counties’ CEQA claims which broke down into four categories: climate change, historical hydrological conditions, water quality and beneficial use, and changes to the SWP.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), issues surrounding the impact of climate change in the Caribbean are high on the agenda. So why is the Caribbean Community making such a big fuss?

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

3] The newest plan boasts several updates since the 2017 draft including an updated project selection process, improved predictive models, and developments of new risk metrics. A total of 61 restoration projects and 12 risk reduction projects were ultimately selected for inclusion in the 2023 plan. [4]

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

And this came after the share of green jobs in all of China’s recruitment had actually been falling since 2017. The decarbonisation target prompted a shift towards climate change. ESG covers environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity, as well as companies’ social impact and governance mechanisms.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

Now is the time to say it as loudly as possible: Harvey is what climate change looks like. More specifically, Harvey is what climate change looks like in a world that has decided, over and over, that it doesn’t want to take climate change seriously. Most of us won't turn into climate refugees, of course.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

The temporal and substantive proximity of these cases, across no less than four different international forums, is a reflection of the immense frustration that civil society and State actors who are the most vulnerable to the harms resulting from climate change feel with the status quo. Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and St.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

And human impacts on the environment, like climate change and land development, very well may hurt beneficial insects and help harmful ones. The first study to set off alarms was published in 2017 by entomologists in Germany, who reported that over 27 years the biomass of flying insects in their traps had declined by 75%.

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Ivy Protocol

JULY 25, 2023

By Ivy Protocol, 2023 The Customer and Climate Action: An Emerging Link Rising customer demand is another catalyst for a clear claims taxonomy. The Climate Action Awareness Report 2022 shows that most survey participants perceive climate change as a top priority and expect companies to act transparently and share their mitigation strategies.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

On its route to landfall in the US, it passed by western Cuba where it intensified into a hurricane, and picked up speed and further intensified into a Category 4 hurricane passing the Gulf of Mexico , knocking down palm trees and destroying many homes in Cuba, even though its passage across the country was brief. We need to act”.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Corps issues nationwide permits for categories of similar activities that will have minimal environmental effects, both individually and cumulatively. The Corps issued NWP 12 in 1977, and most recently reissued NWP 12 in 2017. Utility lines include power lines as well as oil and gas pipelines, among other things.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In an October 2020 presentation to the Climate Change Advisory Committee, DEP said in 2018 two conventional oil and gas well operators abandoned approximately 2,750 oil and gas wells between them. We don't want to see those go into the abandoned category and make the situation worse [sic]. Read more here. Read more here.

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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. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

I moved to South Carolina only two months before Hurricane Matthew made headlines in October 2016 as the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in almost a decade. The horrible impacts of Matthew’s rainfall would soon be repeated by others, like Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018). What do we know about climate change and hurricanes?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

Urban and suburban polluted runoff is increasing amid inconsistent enforcement by government agencies, new development, and climate change. The same practices make farms more resilient to climate change and its effects. Efforts to restore the Bay are struggling to reduce agricultural pollution.

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Law Columbia

MAY 19, 2023

Two executive orders, Executive Orders (EOs) 13990 and 14008 , both issued within a week of President Biden’s inauguration, call for a whole-of-government and science-based approach to tackling the current and expected impacts of climate change on the U.S and its economy, infrastructure, and markets. sea level rise).

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

With successful applications on 1,4-dioxane and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water using a proprietary approach that leverages the properties of ion exchange resins to enable analyte removal and on-site regeneration, ECT2 became the PFAS treatment leader in 2017 in Australia, a country leading the way in PFAS remediation.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Constrained by limited funding (which comes from both utility tariffs and a separate City “Surcharge Fund”), by 2016, it had completed 406 miles of undergrounding, but still had 1,000 miles of overhead lines to convert, and it set a goal of 15 miles per year in its 2017 Utilities Undergrounding Program Master Plan.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

With respect to one ESG consideration in particular—climate change—a number of financial institutions recently have taken significant steps intended both to support climate resiliency and to mitigate climate-related risks faced by their own institutions. The Federal Reserve's Climate-Related Initiatives.

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Environmental Science

JULY 29, 2018

When animals have attributes in several classes, how do we go about determining in which category they belong (the platypus, for example, is a mammal but lays eggs in its reproduction process - unique in mammals)? Climate Change. Animal Taxonomy. How do we classify animals? Humans love putting things in neat little boxes.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis). That view is, however, refuted by EPA’s own documents.

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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. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107. and non-U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. In October 2017, RGGI, Inc. The report breaks down these investments into four categories.

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Columbia Climate Law

JUNE 7, 2019

The Trump Administration is losing on climate in the courts. More than two and a half years into the Trump Administration, no climate change-related regulatory rollback brought before the courts has yet survived legal challenge. 129 of the reviewed cases were “pro” climate protection and 30 were “con.”

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

This is a deep-red county in a Republican state, and the term climate change rarely comes up. Rather than backing away from climate-risky areas, ordinary home buyers and real estate investors are pouring into them—which is the exact opposite response from what climate change experts (or even common sense) would advise.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

20, 2017, around 7 a.m. Climate-Driven Natural Disasters. Natural disasters in 2017 were of epic proportion. Natural disasters in 2017 were of epic proportion. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the summer of 2017 was the hottest on. My sister called me on Sept. refugees.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Although not released as an official regulation, over the past decade, the 2010 Guidance generally has been the primary clarifying guidepost for companies trying to discern which climate change risks require disclosure. More recently, the SEC had an opportunity to implement climate-related disclosure requirements, but did not do so.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. Conference of Mayors (USCOM).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 146. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 147. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

She previously worked as the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks director from 2017–2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay – The Washington Post. 6617 ) Feb. Where is it? – The Boston Globe.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The other day a friend of mine who works in Beijing as a foreign correspondent suggested that of all the acts of stupidity committed by Donald Trump since assuming office, the thing that bothers him the least is the decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement. Fri, 09/15/2017 - 04:27. Categories.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Following years of deliberation and issuance of two drafts, the Obama Administration issued a Final NEPA Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in NEPA in August 2016.[[N: What Procedural Steps Will the Biden-Harris Administration Take Next?

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7 degrees Celsius. or WOTUS. “In

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Nobel Prize recipients urge G7 leaders to take transformative action to address climate change. Part two , scheduled for a November proposal, will make “broader changes,” according to the agenda. Julia Brownley (D-CA) reintroduced the Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act ( H.R. International. 1816 & H.R.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. But along with those macro-level issues, Trump and his cronies are still hammering away at climate change denial, environmental protection, research funding and public health issues. And now the full list: .

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. The bill includes $18 billion for climate change mitigation and adaptation and $500 million to mitigate climate impacts on vulnerable communities, including communities of color and tribes.

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