Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The latter category includes seaweed cultivation and sinking , which is gaining increasing attention as a potential CDR technique. It is not hard to see why.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

Through complex analysis, an estimated monetary value is determined for each category based on quality, quantity, and type of protected open space in each county. The Laurel Highlands region completed a similar report in 2019 that focuses on the value of clean water for the 6000 miles of streams and waterways that flow through the area.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

DEP’s records show the practice of abandoning wells without plugging them is routine in the industry, and not an isolated event. Read more here. -- CNX agreed to plug 141 conventional coalbed methane and gas wells and 5 unconventional wells in October 2019. Click Here the list of 256 conventional oil and gas companies issued NOVs.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

January 30, 2019. Rising sea levels and more frequent flood events could factor into planning the location of future roads and other public infrastructure as well as design standards for private development. 26 that could not by any normal definition fall into any of those categories. Leopards, lions, and zebra – oh my!

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MARCH 14, 2023

This becomes clear when we examine EV shares of new 2019 vehicle registrations by metropolitan area. There is a large EV adoption gap between rural and urban areas in the U.S. There are also opportunities for investments at the state and local levels, including utility programs.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. An en banc decision could affirm the Fifth Circuit’s historical construction of the Jones Act, preserving seaman status to a wider category of maritime workers. Communications include firm news, insights, and events. 1349(b)(1). 3d 726 (S.D.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. An en banc decision could affirm the Fifth Circuit’s historical construction of the Jones Act, preserving seaman status to a wider category of maritime workers. Communications include firm news, insights, and events. 1349(b)(1). 3d 726 (S.D.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

2019), the Fifth Circuit blurred the line between these categories and expanded the cases that can be removed to federal court. Communications include firm news, insights, and events. The textbook counterexample is when the non-diverse defendant is dismissed via contested motion—an involuntary dismissal. 3d 287 (5th Cir.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Instead, the Third Circuit on its own created a new category of damages for due process violations. Corps of Engineers , 2019-565 (La. Bayou Bridge , 2019-565, (La. 3] Bayou Bridge , 2019-565, (La. Communications include firm news, insights, and events. 1] Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v. 7/15/20). [2]

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

IRVINE, CA (September 4, 2020) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry*, has honored Montrose Environmental Group (Montrose) with an award for Business Achievement in Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019. “In

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. The types of important questions that fall within this category do not include requests to the ICJ for advisory opinions. By Michael B.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Instead, the Third Circuit on its own created a new category of damages for due process violations. Corps of Engineers , 2019-565 (La. Bayou Bridge , 2019-565, (La. 3] Bayou Bridge , 2019-565, (La. Communications include firm news, insights, and events. 1] Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v. 7/15/20). [2]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Read more here ] A total of 29 companies were later identified in a separate review as spreading their wastewater on roads in 2018, 2019 and 2020, according to a review of DEP’s Oil & Gas Waste database by the Better Path Coalition. From 2018 to 2020, all conventional oil and gas operators reported disposing of 54,327 barrels (nearly 2.3

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This blog post will summarize the highlights of the event, focusing on updates from Executive Director Houtan Moaveni of the New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES), as well as recommendations from panelists on how to further improve the siting process. Background. 94-c(5)(f). ORES Executive Director Houtan Moaveni’s Update.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This year the world has had front row seats to the climate crisis with one extreme weather event after another. They surveyed 11,000 disasters that occurred between 1970-2019. This shows that countries have become better at adapting to as well as warning about extreme weather events. Photo credit: AP Photo / Phil Coale.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

And what’s really becoming clear is that these very extreme precipitation events are occurring more frequently than they used to and the main reason for that is human-caused climate change.” – Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist. The Category 4 hurricane made landfall on August 29 as one of the strongest storms to hit the United States.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. July 1, 2019). Lawsuits against government: The Children’s Climate Change Lawsuits: A third category of climate change lawsuits involves the public trust doctrine. People by James v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 3d 1233(A), 1 (N.Y.

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Frontiers

MARCH 8, 2022

In honor of the International Women’s Day 2022, we speak to Emeritus Professor Kath Woodward from the Open University, author of, Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The “I” of the Tiger (2007); Sex Power and the Games (2012); Birth and Death; Politics, Experience, Ethics (2019) and Social Sciences: The Big Issues (4 th edition 2022).

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The stocktake recognizes the science that indicates global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

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. ———. Consider this chain of events.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally. Shellenberger.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Just Some Of Significant Shale Gas Events In 2023 Here are just a few significant unconventional shale gas operator compliance events so far in 2023-- -- Uncontrolled Venting Of Gas Prompts Temporary Evacuation: At 2:02 a.m. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. billion to an estimated $1.25

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. Read more here. Bradford County; -- EQT Chap LLC: Basista-Dermotta Well Pad, Sewickley Twp.,

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gleick similarly accuses me of denying any relationship between climate change and extreme weather events, and ignoring how fire seasons have grown longer. As for extreme weather, I wrote, about one of the world’s leading experts, “[Roger] Pielke stresses that climate change may be contributing to some extreme weather events.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA countered that what the agency did here is just what it has traditionally done under this core provision of the Clean Air Act (Section 202), including in three previous GHG rules for the same source categories: EPA examined available emissions-reduction technologies, costs, and lead time and then set technology-neutral performance standards.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

In 2015, under the Obama administration, the EPA and the Corps issued a new rule expanding the major categories of regulated waters while retaining the case-specific significant nexus determination for questionable waters. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

In this issue: ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Visit Capitol Hill Fifteen ESA members and graduate students visit Congressional offices for the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event since 2019. See an album of the GSPA event here. Rain fills our rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, but how does it get there?

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MAY 24, 2021

between 2015 and 2019 that were linked to swimming pools, hot tubs, and other treated recreational waters, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. The forecast is for three to five major hurricanes, those with wind speeds above 111 miles per hour that are rated category 3, 4, or 5. Geological Study report.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA promulgated the challenged rule in 2019 in response to the Ninth Circuit’s issuance of a writ of mandamus in 2017. Information to be collected includes information about chemical identity, categories of use, volumes manufactured and processed, byproducts, environmental and health effects, worker exposure, and disposal.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Generally, materiality "will depend at any given time upon a balancing of both the indicated probability that the event will occur and the anticipated magnitude of the event in light of the totality of the [entity's] activity." In 2019, Rep. 3623 , the Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019. Levinson , 485 U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In response to the concern that its interpretation would “invite gamesmanship,” the Court again said policy concerns could not override plain meaning and also noted that in any event Congress had addressed this policy concern by allowing courts to sanction frivolous arguments. Indigenous Environmental Network v. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Several rivers meander through the flat, swampy county and overflow after intense downpours, the kind that are occurring much more frequently as a warmer atmosphere leads to more intense rain events. At the same time, extreme weather events have been getting worse. In the event of a flood, they’re covered.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Senate returns to session October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, November 15 [Adjourn for year] -- Committee Schedule House returns to session October 24, 25, 26, November 14, 15, 16 [Adjourn for year] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 10:00: In-Person, Virtual. DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Council meeting.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), and included in the Senate EPW Committee’s legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs earlier this year, and in July of 2019. The language arises from legislation originally introduced by EPW Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) and Rep. Eligibility. Speed Mandates. Cost Sharing Requirements.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2019, the Trump administration disbanded the ISAC and cut funding for the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) secretariat by 50 percent. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same. Register for the event here. Comments on the nominees should be sent to the EPA no later than Feb.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

is "that violent extremists — individuals or small groups — will draw inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks against Americans going about their daily lives." 7 Hamas attack to include rallies that feature “anti-Zionist chants and slogans,” events that appear to account for around 1,317 of the total count.’

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