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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

First, Navient attempted to read “loan” into the text of the second category, Section 523(a)(8)(A)(ii), but the court found that “when Congress includes particular language in one section. it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally.” but omits it in another. See McDaniel v. Navient Sols.

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New York Releases Much Awaited Roadmap for Deploying 10 Gigawatts of Distributed Solar by 2030

Law and Environment

In September of this year, Governor Hochul announced a framework to do just that, setting 10 gigawatts (GWs) of deployed distributed solar by 2030 as the goal, enough to power 700,000 New York homes – even more than the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s (CLCPA) six-GW deployment requirement. Community Adder.

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EPA Announces Legally Mandated Changes to TSCA Fees

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EPA published a final TSCA fees rule in October 2018, meaning that EPA did not collect any fees under the rule until fiscal year 2019, and excluded 100 percent of the costs of the first ten risk evaluations. by the PPI for January 2019 (293.4). percent. .”

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DOJ Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Precedent-Setting Criminal Wage-Fixing Case

Arnold Porter

and in October 2019, Doha Mekki, then Counsel to the AAG, testified before Congress about the harms to competition in the labor market and the DOJ’s response.[[N: 19, 2018).]] Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights (Oct.

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CEQ Recommends Carbon Capture Policy Fixes to Congress for the Path Ahead

Arnold Porter

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently issued a report to Congress on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) that outlines a variety of policy recommendations to bolster CCS projects in the US. CEQ cited an example of a CO2 pipeline project that successfully took advantage of the FAST-41 process in 2019.

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What’s Up With Water – June 28, 2021

Circle of Blue

In 2019, over 200 environmental activists were killed, according to data from the advocacy group Global Witness. The Global Witness data found that 40 percent of all victims in 2019 were Indigenous, and more than a third of the attacks between 2015 and 2019 targeted Indigenous peoples. ———. Drought Monitor.

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Rethinking the Willow Project: Did BLM Have Other Options?

Law Columbia

In 1976, in the National Petroleum Reserves Act (“Reserves Act”), Congress transferred authority over the NPR-A from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior. million acres between 1999 and 2019. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category.