CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The case holds that the City’s water allocations to the City’s agricultural lessees were authorized under its existing 2010 leases and thus did not constitute a new project subject to CEQA review before they could be lawfully implemented. Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The data are from the independent open-source Berkeley Earth project – a project by the formerly outspoken climate skeptic physicist Richard Muller, which in 2010 set out to do better than the traditional climate institutes and in the end obtained almost exactly the same results, just a slightly faster global warming.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Under Dutch tort law, the standard of care is that “acting in conflict with what is generally accepted according to unwritten law is unlawful.” This reports that a net 45% reduction in 2030, relative to 2010, would be consistent with a 50% chance of keeping warming within 1.5°C C and an 85% chance for 2°C.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We have since its issuance more than a decade ago, assisted companies, including their counsel and auditors, in complying with the SEC’s 2010 Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change , Release No. the physical impacts of climate change. yes, many companies still issue CSR reports) than provided in SEC filings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since 2016, EPA has generally shown restraint in setting targets for biodiesel and related fuels, insofar as the law allows, and biodiesel consumption has actually fallen. While ethanol remains the largest US source of biofuel, biodiesel and more recently renewable diesel have accounted for most of the growth since 2010.

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Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2022

The World Food Programme has called the current situation a “ hunger catastrophe ,” noting that since 2019, the number of people facing acute food insecurity has more than doubled— from 135 million to 276 million , and that almost 50 million people are currently facing emergency levels of hunger.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In October 2019, the examining magistrate ruled that neither the foreign in-house lawyers who worked in the Netherlands nor those working abroad could benefit from LPP.[[N: In January 2021, the Rotterdam District Court partially overturned the magistrate's 2019 judgment with respect to foreign in-house lawyers working outside the Netherlands.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 16, 2023

The wind is blowing in Texas and the courts are making laws about the movement of air. According to the pleadings, a wind rights lease was entered into in 2010 for a 256 acre property in Hale County, Texas. Two wind turbines were erected and in June 2019 began producing thousands of megawatts of electricity.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 million yuan in 2019 over price-fixing on Lexus cars in eastern Jiangsu province. Workers at Toyota factories in Canada, India, Mexico, and the Philippines as well as the state of Kentucky.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

Wells Environmental Clinic at UCLA School of Law is representing Los Angeles Waterkeeper on matters related to the subject of this post. The Superior Court sided with the boards and upheld the 2012 permit, and NRDC and LAW appealed. Los Angeles River (Credit: Thomas Hawk on Flickr). Disclosure: The Frank G.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost more forest to mining than any other tropical country, with coal extraction the main driver, the first ever biome-wide assessment has found. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. A coal mine in Tenggarong, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo credit: Afriadi Hikmal / Alamy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Solar was actually the leading capacity addition from 2019 through 2021 if you include smaller-scale systems such as rooftop solar.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. Civil law cases. a group of citizens submitted a civil law complaint requesting an injunction to stop the construction and subsequent operation of two coal-fired power plants. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Another of the group’s members is Lynn Henning, an earlier Petoskey Prize winner who also was awarded the 2010 Goldman Prize, the world’s leading honor for environmental activists. A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based Henning is a farmer, too. Department of Agriculture.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Plaintiffs unsuccessfully challenged the City’s 2019 subdivision map approval based on the claim that a subsequent EIR was required due to changes in the project and circumstances allegedly showing it would have new significant impacts on the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse (“harvest mouse”) and its wetlands habitat. 4th at 1317.).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. As of 2019, the transportation sector was the largest sector source of GHG emissions in the state, accounting for more than 50% of statewide GHG emissions. [3]

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act) required each covered agency, including federal financial services regulators, to establish an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI).[[N:12 5452 (2010).]] Banking Law §14(1)(n).]] N:12 U.S.C.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2019, at COP25, the Santiago Network was established to advance technical support on loss and damage in developing countries. However, the full operationalization of the fund could take years, as we have seen from the example of the Green Climate Fund, which was established in 2010 but which only started to operate in 2015.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 11, 2021

After acquiring the site out of receivership in 2010, Plaintiff retained several environmental consulting firms and undertook voluntary remediation efforts pursuant to the Ohio Voluntary Action Program (VAP). against whom Plaintiff FIP Realty Co. brought various claims related to the historic release of VOCs on a site now owned by Plaintiff.

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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. The case is pending a decision. Peru : Alvarez et al v.

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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. There are multiple sources of law to which the Court could look. By Michael B. In any event, the ICJ could reformulate the question on its own.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Retrofitting the dams to allow fish passage and comply with the ESA was prohibitively expensive, so PacifiCorp and other stakeholders came together in 2010 to develop and eventually sign the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement and the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA). Klamath Restoration (2010, February 18).

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2019, KIPP SoCal Public Schools (“KIPP SoCal”)—an east LA charter school—sought approval to build an elementary and middle school in Cudahy, a city 10 miles from downtown LA. According to the 2010 census, over 95% of Cudahy residents identified themselves as either Hispanic or Latino, and many are immigrants.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

constitutive law. passed local law. Pittsburgh followed in 2010, declaring. In August 2018, the group began collecting signatures for a petition to place the Lake Erie Bill of Rights on the ballot for a February 2019 vote. Earth Law Center. Notably, Earth law logically extends beyond Earth itself.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

Worldwide, the cost of utility scale solar fell 82% between 2010 and 2019, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), driven down by cheaper manufacturing costs in China, which accounts for around 72% of global production. “Since 2019, our electricity bill has gone up a lot because of the tariff hike.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Court’s majority acknowledged such actions would contravene FERC’s “sole jurisdiction” over licensing process disputes and be preempted under longstanding federal law. (18 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).). North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held that fishermen who intentionally came upon the scene of the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon failed to state a claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress under general maritime law. 20, 2010 , 452 F. 2019), appeal filed , No. On January 11, 2021, the Fifth Circuit panel affirmed.

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