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Private Student Loan Update: Second Circuit Finds “Educational Benefit” Category of Section 523 Does Not Apply to Private Student Loans

Arnold Porter

In 2017, Homaidan reopened his bankruptcy case and commenced a putative class action adversary proceeding against Navient, alleging that Navient “employed a scheme of issuing dischargeable loans to unsophisticated student borrowers and then demanding repayment even after those loans are discharged in bankruptcy. but omits it in another.

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‘A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report

Circle of Blue

The report notes, “The effluent quality must comply to 90% [in total] with the authorised limits for the respective categories.”. Five of the 22 Green Drop award winners fall into the NMR category, meaning they are exempt from certain effluent quality indicators. Photo © Peter Luhanga / CCIJ. Chemicals of emerging concern.

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The ‘Year of Climate’ in International Courts

Legal Planet

Article 64(1) of the American Convention provides that member States can consult the Court regarding interpretation of not only the Convention, but also “of other treaties concerning the protection of human rights in the American states.” As one example, consider the issue of extraterritorial obligations for the impact of climate change.

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Montrose Environmental Group Receives 2019 EBJ Business Achievement Award

Montrose

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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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

And this came after the share of green jobs in all of China’s recruitment had actually been falling since 2017. The biggest employer among these is emissions management consulting, followed by emissions auditing. The bump may be linked to China’s commitment, made in September 2020, to reach carbon neutrality before 2060.

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That Dam Case (Again):  Third District Upholds Oroville Hydropower Facilities Relicensing EIR Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

CEQA Developments

FERC allows relicensing to be undertaken by the state agency in a process involving consultation with interested parties and stakeholders in order to reach a “settlement agreement” consensus that can then be blessed by FERC at its conclusion; this is the process DWR followed. North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th 2017) 878 F.3d

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation's 2022 State Of The Bay Score Unchanged, States Must Focus On Agriculture, Stormwater Pollution

PA Environment Daily

CBF scientists compile and examine the best available data and information for 13 indicators in three categories: pollution, habitat, and fisheries. Pollution In the pollution category nitrogen, toxics, and dissolved oxygen indicators were unchanged, the phosphorus indicator improved, and overall water clarity declined.

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