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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

Law Columbia

This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe. By Michael B. We know that, mostly as a result of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe.

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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector

Clean Energy Law

The July 2019 notice asserts that CERCLA confers significant discretion on the agency. Although the statute requires EPA to determine the level of financial responsibility necessary to protect against the level of risk, it imposes no particular methodology for that determination. O’Brien and Stacey L. VanBelleghem. What’s Next?

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Concern Over President’s Choice to Head Federal Wildlife Agency – Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Colorado River: California, Arizona, Nevada, the Central Arizona Project and the federal government reached an agreement to voluntarily reduce water consumption to avoid mandatory cuts. 3, 2022.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA promulgated the challenged rule in 2019 in response to the Ninth Circuit’s issuance of a writ of mandamus in 2017. The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

GAO Report Identified Decline in EPA’s Chemical Assessment Processes Since 2019. The risk evaluation’s conclusions that consumer uses do not present an unreasonable risk could preempt state-level restrictions on 1,4-dioxane in personal care, cosmetic, and cleaning products such as restrictions enacted by New York in 2019.[[N:N.Y.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

Vermont Law

as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. that it should “Amend the Clean Air Act to clarify that it never delegated to the EPA the authority to enact climate policies through the Act.”. [18]. No April in Paris.

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Policy News: May 6, 2021

ESA

This bill passed the full House in 2019 but did not advance in the Senate. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for Clean Water Act permitting, dams, aquatic ecosystem restoration projects and other issues. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. in 1999 to 38.5%

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