Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. Berkeley : Berkeley’s Ordinance Preempted by U.S. Under EPCA, the U.S. Clean Air Act, not EPCA. Berkeley decision.)

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In more recent years, there has been a quiet but concerted grassroots campaign led by Nebraska Conservation Voters to elect more climate-friendly board members. In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). That has changed quite quickly. That campaign has borne dramatic results.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Wells Clinic in Environmental Law, Cara Horowitz, Julia Stein, and I filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of seven law professors in the Ninth Circuit case California Restaurant Association v. Wells Clinic Faculty File Amicus Brief on Behalf of Law Professors in California Restaurant Association v. Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In sharp contrast with their American counterparts, British conservatives remain firmly behind the Paris Agreement and supportive of cap-and-trade. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. Last week, I posted about the British government’s climate policy. Here’s what’s happening across Great Britain. Other UK Cities.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

In contrast, V-SCI is the passion project of an all volunteer group of graduate students, formed in 2019. As the conservation director of Virginia-based advocacy group Wild Virginia , David Sligh was positioned to facilitate connections in the networks that strengthen the advocacy apparatus.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

These are people with real money at stake, unlike conservative politicians and talking heads. In 2019, it signed an agreement with a Chinese steelmaker to find ways to reduce emissions from steel making. That made an investor revolt last week over the giant mining company’s climate disclosures especially notable.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The bill would also have changed the procedures employed by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for issuing permits under the Environmental Conservation Law. . This will be especially relevant in New York City, where DACs exist in numerous corners of the city.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

But a 5-4 conservative majority , led by Justice Samuel Alito, a long-time skeptic of both EPA authority , and what constitutes any kind of pollution, went a fateful extra step. A 2019 study in the journal of Marine and Freshwater Research found that the world’s wetlands deliver $47 trillion a year in ecosystem services.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2024

Of Conservation Districts Recognizes Conservation Award Winners [PaEN] -- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Celebrate Successes Spotlight: Neshaminy Watershed Assn. Thank you for your leadership! -- PA Assn. Penn State Extension 5-Part Backyard Stream Repair Webinar Series Starting Aug.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Though plants and seed were historically interpreted to be products of nature and thus, not patentable per existing patent law, the American Association of Nurserymen successfully lobbied the federal government to pass the Plant Patent Act of 1930. To strictly analyze the cost of seed, consider that corn farmers who paid $26.65

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 9, 2019

December 4, 2019. The 2019 legislative session was distinguished by its slow pace and lack of movement on significant legislation until very late in the session. House Bill 111 ( Session Law 2019-242 ) provided base-budget funding for a number of state agencies, including the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. Second, it explains the link between climate change and UNCLOS by summarizing UNCLOS’ central provisions for the ITLOS to answer the questions raised.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

The request follows similar initiatives at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS, see here and here ), the International Court of Justice (ICJ, see here and here ), and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here ). 4, African Charter), the right to health (art.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners [March 2021] -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) in 2019 when he introduced Senate Bill 619 that redefined water pollution under the state Clean Streams Law and let companies decide when they should notify DEP of a spill.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The proposal comes in the wake of a recent analysis commissioned by the Environmental Defense Fund, which found that oil and gas operators in Louisiana wasted over $16 million worth of gas in 2019 through venting and flaring alone, among other findings. If you have further questions, contact Liskow’s Cristian Solar or James Lapeze.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

Once again, we’re teaming up with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and headed to court this week to protect this important environmental law from the Government of Alberta’s efforts to strike it down. That’s why we’re in court defending this law. They even compared the law to the climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The most common projects approved are for no-till planting and precision ag equipment, waste storage facilities, conservation plans, Nutrient Management Plans, and protecting animal heavy-use areas, like barnyards. Almost 350 farms in 54 Pennsylvania counties were approved for REAP tax credits in 2019-20.

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SPR Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (CLCPA) sets requirements and goals for statewide greenhouse gas emissions reductions, plans to achieve net zero emissions across the State’s economy, and renewables targets.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Liquid manure doesn’t run off of Greg Strayer’s Cumberland County beef farm and threaten the Conodoguinet Creek any longer, thanks to a new 185,000-gallon storage area made possible with cost-share funds through Pennsylvania’s Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program (ACAP). The conservation district received a total of $3.5

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Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2021

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (“EPCA”). Does the phrase “local regulation… concerning the energy conservation [or] energy use” capture a huge range of policies that effectively, but indirectly, preclude the use of an energy type, no matter how far from direct energy “standards” they may be?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Environmentalists have successfully advocated for low fixed charges on the basis of conservation. The idea is that a volumetric rate based on marginal costs may be more economically efficient, but could create a price signal too weak to incentivize conservation, another important goal.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In 2019, the Town of South Bruce Peninsula was convicted on two charges of damaging piping plover habitat, contrary to section 10(1) of the ESA. Equally important to the existence of these laws is enforcement, ensuring that those who violate the law face consequences.”. Beach conservation and tourism can co-exist.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

Can the new advisory opinion interpreting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) move us beyond the lethargy of unmet climate change policy needs ? By accepting the COSIS request, ITLOS boldly advanced the international law of climate change to take full account of its harmful impacts on the marine environment.

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SPR Law

DECEMBER 17, 2021

On December 8, 2021, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC or the Department) issued two policies that incorporate climate change considerations into Departmental decision making and ensure compliance with the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (CLCPA).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2022

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2022 Women In Conservation Awards Program to recognize excellence in conservation and to forge a stronger network of women who are deeply committed to working to protect Pennsylvania’s environment. Nominees should have dedicated at least 25 years of work to conservation in Pennsylvania.

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SPR Law

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 9, 2022, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC or the Department) issued draft criteria developed by the Department’s Climate Justice Working Group (CJWG or Working Group) for identifying disadvantaged communities in New York State.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

These partnerships are critical for conserving important forested regions of our world. The GCF Task Force is currently housed at the University of Colorado at Boulder and will transition to the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law in mid-2022. See here for more information. Download as PDF.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 10, 2023

The American Chemistry Council case deals with the interplay of CEQA with another statutory scheme, the so-called “Green Chemistry” law (Health & Safety Code, § 25251 et seq.) The law also provides administrative processes for affected parties to dispute the Department’s determinations with respect to regulated chemicals.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

County of Kern , in which the Court of Appeal held that agricultural land conversion mitigation measures violated CEQA because conservation easements did not create new agricultural land to replace the land lost. As was the case in 2018 and 2019, the Sixth District was the only district in which the public agency prevailed in all cases.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. Argentina : Asociación Civil por la Justicia Ambiental v.

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Energy & the Law

APRIL 5, 2022

Chesapeake Louisiana LP et al is whether unleased mineral owners in a drilling unit established by the Commissioner of Conservation must bear their proportionate share of post-production costs. The question with wide-ranging implications for Louisiana operators and mineral owners in Johnson et al. The statutory scheme.

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MAY 7, 2025

At the same time, Pennsylvania generates almost four times the amount of energy from the sun compared to five years ago in 2019, putting it in the middle of the pack (26th) behind neighboring states like New York (9th), New Jersey (13th), Maryland (23rd) and even Ohio (16th).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2025

Part 1 focused on discussions regarding applicable law, and the no-harm rule. Cameroon even urged the ICJ to confirm the existence of the right to a healthy environment as a customary international law norm. Spain stressed that Resolution A/76/L.75

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2021

David Zimmerman (R-Lancaster) introduced House Bill 1755 which would take away all Department of Environmental Protection permit application fees collected by the agency and deposit them into the General Fund rather than into the accounts now set up in law to pay for specific environmental protection programs.

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