Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Understanding that such investments would not be made by farmers without a guaranteed market, the Indian government also created a minimum support price (MSP) for wheat in 1966-67. A 2019 Indian government report estimated that 74% of the area where wheat is cultivated, and 65% of the area where rice is grown, will face water shortages.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. Farmworkers deserve to work in dignity and safety, and the laws designed to protect them do not fulfill those requirements. In a country that relies on farmworker labor to feed us, we must ensure that we design laws that adequately protect them.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. June 29, 2017). Pruitt , No.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

Under the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has authority to regulate “ the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce.” FERC approved this agreement in 2017, and Transource then filed siting applications with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), as required by Pennsylvania law.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. Therefore, even if the current Chilean Government wanted to take over lithium production, that won’t happen soon.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

He also served as the manager of the program’s market monitoring section and as an attorney supporting the development and implementation of climate and air quality regulations at CARB. Jason Gray (far right) is presented with the GCF Task Force Everyday Hero award in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2017.

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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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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Under the Rule, certain banking organizations are obligated to notify their primary federal regulator promptly, and not later than 36 hours, after the discovery of a “computer-security incident” that rises to the level of a “notification incident.” as defined under the respective regulations of the Agencies.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. In the pre-colonial era, mechanisms such as the traditional administrative system which regulated grazing activities and demarcated cattle migratory routes, known as the burti, were key to establishing clear boundaries between farmers and herders.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

However, the deployment of MRE technologies can also have impacts on the environment in ABNJ which require to be considered and regulated in advance in order to guarantee that they are developed in a sustainable way. It is therefore essential to strengthen the efforts for the protection and conservation of these maritime spaces.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S. However, the DOI’s proposed implementing regulations authorized by the IIJA have yet to be issued for public comment.

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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. The Court of Appeal’s Decision.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. The statutes do not require direct notice to either the local government or to owners of property along the affected shoreline. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2017, the 12-year-old was walking home when he slipped into a deep pit abandoned by Metallicon S.A Local authorities in Cameroon do not strictly enforce environmental regulations for mining companies, and nationwide legislation on the matter has not yet been completed.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Unlike other glyphosate cases, this one focused on the actions of the regulator, the PMRA, not about whether the chemical causes cancer. SFM called for a review of the PMRA’s 2017 decision that allowed glyphosate to stay registered in Canada for another 15 plus years. The answer is not advancing trade or allowing continued sales.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Court’s majority acknowledged such actions would contravene FERC’s “sole jurisdiction” over licensing process disputes and be preempted under longstanding federal law. (18 North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The Grand Jury Report was released by then Attorney General Shapiro in June 2020 after what he said then was a two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Changing Tides: Threats to Public Ownership of Small Community Water Systems By Dante DeNault The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) expressly regulates public water systems (including community water systems) by imposing national drinking water regulations to ensure public health and safety.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 16, 2023

The wind is blowing in Texas and the courts are making laws about the movement of air. At this time when government actions, including by the courts, around climate change represent much of the opportunities in the years ahead, including the increasing emphasis on renewable energy, the wind is key.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

These laws have asserted rights for nature, the right of the community to local self-government, and the right to be free from the dumping of frack waste to protect those rights.” We passed a law that protected Grant Township from this injection well, and have been taken to court repeatedly for doing so.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The bill is a companion to Senate Bill 619 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) introduced last session at the request of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation which was unhappy with an April 17, 2017 settlement with DEP over an appeal of a stormwater pollution prevention permit for its West Point, Montgomery County plant (Environmental Hearing Board Docket No.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. The initial plan was approved in 2008 , with the second in 2013 , and the most recent iteration in 2017.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Implicit in this description is that other jurisdictions, the United States included, lack legal frameworks governing artificial intelligence. Without comprehensive regulation in the United States, the FTC still has powerful tools for policing what it perceives as bad actors. The FTC is not the only sheriff in town, however.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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