PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Seggos , No.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court previously reached the same conclusion in December 2018, but the California Supreme Court directed it to reconsider the case in light of the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Friends of the Eel River v. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. California v. Bernhardt , No.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

On the research side, DoD has major collaborations with the National Renewable Energy Lab. And according to an MIT/Hoover website , by 2012 Pentagon spending “on energy research, development, testing, and demonstration alone was $1 billion—though even this was but 1 percent of its total innovation budget.”.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The court noted that the administrative record currently documented the Corps’ decision to reissue NWP 12 in 2017. An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

“There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. entered into more than 70 contracts to procure renewable energy, totaling more than 13,000 megawatts.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Physical risk" refers to the uncertain costs and losses resulting from damage to assets or property caused by severe storms, floods and wildfires; rising sea levels; and regularly increasing temperatures. N: Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures , June 2017.Another California Legislation.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 2, 2023

In 2017, the archipelago got pummeled by hurricanes, Puerto Rico was devastated, electric power service was knocked out for months, in some places, close to a year which led to nearly 3000 excess deaths. The record-breaking heat creates the perfect conditions for more intense storms. This opportunity is being squandered.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The most significant action was the passage of the Defense Authorization Act of 2017, HR 1810. This could be used to support renewable energy more generally. Some of this has already been done, however, in an emergency response to disruptions of supply chains and the energy system caused by the Ukraine war. 50 USC 4531).

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in December 2017 and March 2018 because the environmental assessments for the lease sales failed to meet National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, including by failing to take a hard look at cumulative climate change impacts. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. Jacobson v. Clack , No.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

On June 23, 2021, Chevron Corporation filed notice in the district court of its voluntary dismissal of third-party complaints against the energy company Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA). Indigenous Environmental Network v. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. June 9, 2021). In an appeal in the case challenging the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

How much will global temperatures and sea levels rise, when will that occur, and exactly what effects they will have all are uncertain. 2017); [link].]] The SCC then monetizes those impacts over time. The sheer breadth of this exercise is staggering, and necessarily creates substantial uncertainty. 2019); Birckhead v.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. Actual Scientists Say Sea-Level Rise Is A Threat To Tangier Island, Virginia. Energy Department aims to close international clean energy office. July 2017. . August 2017. . And now the full list: . 2017.06.01.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The City also alleged that the companies engaged in a “greenwashing” campaign by creating misleading impressions of the role of renewable energy in the companies’ businesses and of their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints. Keystone XL was authorized under the 2017 NWP 12. Center for Biological Diversity v. Scott , No.

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