Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

On May 13, 2019, the US Supreme Court denied certiorari in American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), et al., Plaintiffs again appealed ( Rocky Mountain II ) and on January 18, 2019, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision. High Court’s action clears pathway for low-carbon fuel standard programs.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). SB 605 (2014) took the first step in methane-specific policy, directing the state’s Air Resources Board to create “a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants” such as agricultural methane.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Back in 2014, California was the very last Western state to realize that everyone pumping as much groundwater as they could wasn’t a great long-term strategy to meet our collective water needs. This was already a requirement in Texas’ groundwater law, and it seemed like a no-brainer to me. The final verdict?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Under existing law, municipalities are authorized to negotiate agreements for a host fee to be paid to the municipality. Keystone filed its original expansion application in April 2014. In July 2019, DEP approved the Environmental Assessment (EA) and determined that “the benefits of the proposed expansion outweighed the known harms.”

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

February 2019 senate hearing. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates the response cost to EAB infestation from 2009 to 2019 at . As of October 1, 2019, a. 25, 2019, with a final rule likely to be published in 2020. In 2014, three of the island’s native fox species were taken off the endangered species list.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In 2014, another biotechnology company sought billions of dollars in damages and a permanent injunction against the sale of Sanofi and Regeneron's lifesaving and cholesterol-reducing drug Praluent over patent disputes. in one of the most closely watched biotechnology cases in recent years.

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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thousands of wells in the state went dry in the previous drought , in 2014 and 2015, mostly in the southern San Joaquin Valley. California’s groundwater act, signed into law during the previous drought, requires sustainable use of aquifers. Farm sales in Glenn County, for instance, generated $855 million in 2019.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

2019; Pedlar et al., The current barriers to implementing assisted migration include the established laws and attitudes about forest restoration in land management agencies and the logistical constraints of time, money, and personnel needed to plant the trees (Dumroese et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., Jaquish, B.

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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. In the court’s opinion, one would expect to find a determination of what is the applicable law, and how that law applies to the question posed.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since my inaugural post (which can be viewed here ) was a “top ten” list of CEQA litigation mistakes to avoid, I thought an appropriate tenth anniversary post might be a list of the ten most significant CEQA case law developments over the past decade. Superior Court (2014) 59 Cal.4th City of San Diego (2019) 7 Cal.5th

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Thank you to Governor Shapiro for coming to Yardley to sign House Bill 735 into law as Act 22 of 2023,” Rep. I reintroduced this bill when I was first elected in 2017, it passed in the House in the 2019-2020 Session, and it was the first bill passed by the House Insurance Committee in 2021-2022, but it did not get across the finish line.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2019, the town of South Bruce Peninsula was convicted on two charges of damaging piping plover habitat, contrary to Section 10 of the ESA. Half of monitored wildlife species in Canada (451 of 903) declined in abundance from 1970 to 2014. Habitat loss is the greatest threat to species in Canada.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

That is a four-fold increase since 2019, in part due to the Jal Jeevan Mission, which aims to provide every rural household with a tap water connection by 2024. In 2014, a very dry year, nearly 200 complaints were filed, three times as many as the previous year.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

Kaanapali, MAUI REAL ESTATE ADVISORS LLC, [link] (last visited Mar 15, 2019). a (Black Rock), HAWAI‘I MAGAZINE (2016), [link] (last visited Mar 15, 2019). Hawaii Wildlife Fund, SCOTUSBLOG, [link] (last visited Mar 15, 2019). After graduation, Savannah hopes to practice environmental law in Seattle, Washington.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 10, 2022

Tackling Food Insecurity in Urban Food Deserts: A Legal Toolkit By Colleen McGrath , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 10, 2022 Despite their crowded streets, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Newark, Chicago, and other large urban communities are often considered food deserts.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. On the other hand, we expect to see the effect of greenhouse gases when we look at the temperature averaged over the entire globe.

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Physics World

JUNE 27, 2022

In 2014, having just stepped down as president of CERN Council, I became a researcher in astroparticle physics. I volunteered to create a new working group on astroparticle physics and was chair of it from 2014 to 2017. How did you get involved in IUPAP? . He asked if I would accept the role of president-elect.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As CEO since 2019, Bass has refined the organization’s lineup of activities – not only trails, but also tai chi and gardening – and strengthened its commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and access, emphasizing preservation’s role in combating climate change. -- Thomas D.

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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. 2014); Barker v. 2019), appeal filed , No. 2014); Barker v. 20, 2010 , 452 F. 3d 455, 463 (E.D.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A 2019 study of 1,300 utilities across the country found that utilities “whose ratepayers have more unequal incomes levy more redistributive tariffs, charging less to low users and more to high users.” It is a slightly modified version of a CPUC principle dating to 2014, which has been applied to evaluate rate design proposals ever since.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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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. In 2012, 80 percent of Cudahy residents were low-income, and in 2014, a third lived in poverty. History of Environmental Injustice in Cudahy.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 3, 2019

a case concerning Texas partnership law. At the end of a four-week trial held in 2014, the jury found that ETP and Enterprise created a partnership to market and pursue a pipeline project and that Enterprise had failed to prove that it complied with its duty of loyalty. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. ,

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Indeed, a 2019 Gallup survey found that 14% of U.S. topped $17 billion in 2020, increasing over 40% from 2019.[[N: In the 2014 criminal case of People of the State of Colorado v. Additionally, it is important to follow the laws and guidelines that govern reporting adverse events to regulatory bodies. N: [link].]].

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

constitutive law. passed local law. But in 2014, nearly 500,000 Toledo residents were placed under a. 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. constitution. tap water ban.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

In 2019, the Court heard Burlington Res. 2019), reh’g denied (May 31, 2019). Randle , 02-18-00271-CV, 2019 WL 1716415, at *1 (Tex. 18, 2019, pet. BlueStone , 2019 WL 1716415, at *13. El Paso 2014, pet. BlueStone , 2019 WL 1716415. Oil & Gas Co. Crude Energy, LLC , 573 S.W.3d BlueStone Nat.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2014), another case involving an arbitration clause which incorporated the AAA rules and explicitly exempted certain claims from arbitration. In reaching its decision, the Fifth Circuit looked to the Second Circuit’s decision in NASDAQ OMX Grp., UBS Securities, LLC , 770 F.3d 3d 1010 (2d Cir. Archer & White Sales, Inc. 3d 274 (5th Cir.

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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. 2014); Barker v. 2019), appeal filed , No. 2014); Barker v. 20, 2010 , 452 F. 3d 455, 463 (E.D.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The City selected Eden Housing as the developer for the multifamily housing component of the plan and prepared several addenda to the 2009 SEIR in 2019 and 2020. 2014) 227 Cal.App.4th 4th 832, 850 (see prior summary dated July 11, 2014, which can be accessed here ).) 5th at 1170, and North Coast Rivers Alliance v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

DEP’s March 20 inspection report [Armstrong 774 - example] notes the original violations for abandonment were issued on August 5, 2019 and were reconfirmed on September 7, 2022. On March 21, 2014 , DEP inspected the Duff 1 conventional well operated by RJ Schreiner, Sr.

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