Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. This “supranational status” means that these treaties are above the “regular” laws in the legal hierarchy.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The four wells that are part of this announcement were list as abandoned by DEP since April 14, 2015.] This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 14, 2015 - report not available, but noting ‘no adverse event or action reported.] operates 110 conventional wells.] [The No violations were issued. [A

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But people across the Colorado legal community, the broader Western water community, and a far-flung network that includes Berkeley Law staff, faculty, and alumni. Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. Justice Hobbs’ connections with Berkeley Law run deep. He got his JD here in 1971. I was lucky enough to be one of them. .

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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. In April 2019, DOH issued a final Health Consultation Report in response to the community’s concerns about harmful environmental exposures from the landfill.

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2015, the EPA published the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which established mechanisms for reducing power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that included shifting power generation toward lower- and non-emitting energy sources. In January 2021, the D.C.

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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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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. Bay Area Air Quality Management District (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

For species that are long-lived and have short dispersal distances, natural selection may be too slow to keep pace with rapid climate change (Renwick & Rocca, 2015). 2019; Pedlar et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., link] Dumroese, R. Williams, M. Stanturf, J. A., & Clair, J. New Forests , 46 (5–6), 947–964. link] Muller, J.

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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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Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2023

This report, which forms part of the Sabin Center’s broader Climate Law and Finance Initiative , provides a toolkit to help academics, attorneys, insurance practitioners, and industry regulators model (re)insurer climate litigation risk. The report was authored by Martin Lockman, Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

Kahn, 2015. " Kahn, 2019. Kahn, 2019. " Such estimates are useful but they are not "laws of physics". Rhode, 2012. Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 102(3), pages 238-244, May. Kahn Matthew E.,

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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. 2015 ruling. At the Limits of the Law: The Challenge of Invasives in 2020. According to a.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The permit was issued under the Clean Water Act in March 2019 – the same year the project received FERC approval – and will allow construction crews to “clear, grade, excavate and place fill material” on site to build the plant, which is being built on a 1,000-acre site on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, south of Lake Charles. [1]

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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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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

EU NDC and European Green Deal In 2020, the EU submitted its NDCs before the UNFCCC, on behalf of the EU and its Member States, containing a target of 55% reduction in GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 2030, updating its 2015 commitment of 40% reduction. For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

According to the Indictment presented to the court, from in and around October 2015 and continuing until in and around December 2019, Erie Coke Corporation and Nearhoof tampered with measurements on heating systems which emitted contaminants and pollutants into the air including volatile gases such as benzene, toluene, and xylene.

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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

Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. From 2019 through 2021 , additions of large-scale generating capacity have been led by wind—not gas—and the US Energy Information Administration says solar power is on track to lead this year.

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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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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The battle stretched out over seven years between 2015 and 2021. Before it was all over, local, county, state, and federal laws, an interstate compact, and an international agreement came into play. By April of 2015, the site for the bottling plant had switched again to another part of the commercial area of the town.

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 19, 2021

EPA’s 2019 Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE Rule). The 2019 ACE Rule replaced the 2015 Clean Power Plan as a means of regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants. On January 19, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the D. Circuit issued an Order vacating U.S. The Court held that, while U.S.

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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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Manning Law

JUNE 11, 2020

a fuel supplier based in Western Canada, was fined $200,000 in the Provincial Court of British Columbia after pleading guilty on June 17, 2019, to five counts of transferring petroleum products into a storage-tank system where storage-tank-system identification numbers were not visible. Background. In January 2013, Scamp Industries Ltd.

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Vermont Law

MAY 11, 2020

An EIA report from January, 2019 forecasts that renewable energy will continue to increase at a sharp rate as coal-fired and nuclear generation decreases each year. [2]. Utility-scale solar is expected to grow by 10% in 2019 and an additional 17% in 2020. [3]. 15, 2019), [link]. [2]. 18, 2019), [link]. [3]. 30, 2019). [8].

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Physics World

APRIL 7, 2022

Spencer Powers: I was an MBA student at MIT in 2015 when I met Yichen, who was doing a PhD with Marin Solja?i? In 2019 Lightelligence produced its first optical artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator demo called COMET, which was able to accurately recognize handwritten digits. How did Lightelligence get going?

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” Federal Rule 4(k)(2) provides that “[f]or a claim that arises under federal law, serving a summons or filing a waiver of service establishes personal jurisdiction over a defendant if [] the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of general jurisdiction,” among other conditions. Applicant) in 2019.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

The July 2019 notice asserts that CERCLA confers significant discretion on the agency. State law requirements. CCR Rule Damage Cases: EPA also reviewed the CCR damage cases evaluated for the agency’s 2015 CCR Rule. EPA’s decision to forego financial requirements will likely face opposition by eNGOs. By Claudia M. VanBelleghem.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” Federal Rule 4(k)(2) provides that “[f]or a claim that arises under federal law, serving a summons or filing a waiver of service establishes personal jurisdiction over a defendant if [] the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of general jurisdiction,” among other conditions. Applicant) in 2019.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

” Antonio Guterres, Climate Action Summit 2019. Developed in 1992 (and updated in 2015), ISO 14000 is a set of globally-recognized standards that, when adhered to, significantly reduce the environmental impact of business operations. Comply with laws, regulations, and other environmentally-orientated requirements.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based

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