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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Brag

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 10, 2021, the Biden Administration released its Fall 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. EPA proposed to add three new fee categories: a Bona Fide Intent to Manufacture or Import Notice, a Notice of Commencement of Manufacture or Import, and an additional fee associated with test orders.

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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. With many new leaders taking charge – EPA administrators, governors, legislators, and within environmental organizations – we have an opportunity to prove that restoring clean water is possible.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Mazzant III of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss the government’s first ever criminal indictment for alleged wage-fixing. Jindal and Rodgers argued that because wage-fixing is not a per se violation of the Sherman Act, the government has failed to state a criminal offense.[[N:The

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Law Columbia

MAY 19, 2023

Since President Biden took office in January 2021, his administration has been proactive in its efforts to fulfill his campaign promise to place climate issues at the forefront of his presidential agenda. and its economy, infrastructure, and markets.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017.

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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)? Sponsored Content. History of Zoology. Ancient Societies. Animal Taxonomy. How do we classify animals? Climate Change.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 1] In its 2017 report, the Academies warned that U.S. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government’s regulatory “call in” power amendment faces delays. This year the UK has seen the formation of a new government that has introduced substantial spending cuts and the announcement of leadership changes at both the FCA and the SFO, two of the UK’s most important economic crime agencies.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Between fall 2021 and summer 2022, we read and categorized over 270 judicial decisions across two cohorts: one cohort containing all environmental decisions by Trump-appointed judges and a “control group” cohort containing a random sample of environmental decisions by non-Trump judges between 2017 and 2021. Download as PDF.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Bill of Rights protects rights of people against the government. Thus, section 19 probably constrains government action or requires affirmative government action, but it does not create a right of your neighbor to have you maintain your trees or to stop polluting. 2017); Robinson Twp. Envt’l Def. Commonwealth , 161 A.3d

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

A discussion of ESG disclosures, and what the industry may expect from these other financial regulators on ESG matters under the Biden-Harris Administration, will be the subject of an upcoming Advisory. * * * * *. The G30 report offered a number of recommendations to governments, financial regulators, and financial institutions.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Recognizing the environmental and public health risks posed by methane, in January 2015, the Obama administration set a goal of reducing emissions from the oil and gas industry by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. That request was withdrawn by the Trump administration in March 2017.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The government sets an overall emissions target¾the cap¾and determines which facilities will be covered. In October 2017, RGGI, Inc. The report breaks down these investments into four categories. As of 2017, some $3.4 Cap-and-trade programs generally operate as follows. [13]. Funded programs are expected to return $1.3

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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. This paper updates a report on climate change litigation during the first year of the Trump Administration.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. The change in Administrations has prompted a considerable change in emphasis and new activities at EPA that are significant and which are noted in this edition.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. The change in administrations has prompted a considerable change in emphasis and new activities at EPA that are significant and which are noted in this edition.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

20, 2017, around 7 a.m. 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. In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey required around 10,000. protection.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration. In 2021 the Biden Administration reversed the Trump-era rollbacks and instituted the strictest-ever vehicle GHG emissions standards in a move aimed at preventing 3.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. EPA , 549 U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . The first is the administrative collaboration among two nations, eight states, local governments, academia, and nonprofit groups to raise public awareness and momentum for solutions. A last point.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This Advisory is the second in a series concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations for the financial services industry and other companies. In his letter, Fink also stated that "[w]hile government must lead the way in this transition, companies and investors also have a meaningful role to play."

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS Supreme Court Sent Other Climate Cases Back to Lower Appellate Courts for Review of Other Grounds for Removal.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Williams joined the Biden administration in January 2021 and is currently serving as the agency’s principal deputy director. 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. 6617 ) Feb. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. EPA Published Final Risk Management Rules for Five Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Substances; Biden Administration to Review. 1:21-cv-00462 (S.D.N.Y.,

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 25, 2021

trillion economic spending package, which will likely include ambitious Biden Administration priorities such as, adopting a federal paid leave benefit, adding a series of energy tax incentives, including drug pricing reforms, and expanding dental, vision and hearing benefits to seniors. 108- 27); Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (P.L.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 Lawmakers also allocate $9.7 or WOTUS. “In United States.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . And now the full list: . 2017.06.01.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The President’s Budget Request represents a starting point for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget process and the administration’s priorities. The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs. billion for NOAA, a $1.4

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The White House expressed its concern over antisemitism and Islamophobia and announced the administration was working on national strategies against hate ‘The White House recently expressed deep concern over “an extremely disturbing pattern of antisemitic messages” on college campuses since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct.

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