Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Fishman, who heads the firm’s Crisis Management and Strategic Response team, was named to The National Law Journal’s 2021 list of “Crisis Leadership Trailblazers.” He also was retained by the state’s largest trade group to advise on the industry’s overall strategy and response to the pandemic.

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Renewable + Law

AUGUST 31, 2020

On August 19, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed decision accepting the 2019 Renewables Portfolio Standard Procurement Plans submitted by four new Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs): Butte Choice Energy Authority; Clean Energy Alliance; the City of Santa Barbara; and San Diego Community Power.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

From July 2021 through June 2022, PROP (with funding from DEP) coordinated the study. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the survey was sent to 2,713 schools with 199 responding. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, 81.4% percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 In 2019, the most recent year available, 5.25 Also, 43.5%

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whole Foods did not break the law by banning Black Lives Matter apparel, judge rules CNN PaulaR Tue, 01/02/2024 - 13:37 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Ramishah Maruf New YorkCNN — Whole Foods did not act unlawfully by banning employees from wearing items with Black Lives Matter messaging, a judge ruled Thursday.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Since you’re probably more interested in the second point than the first one —unless you’re a real administrative law geek— let’s start with that one. In 2019, PJM rejiggered the capacity market to counter the “unfair” advantage that renewable generators got from state incentives. In 2021, PJM changed its mind.

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SPR Law

APRIL 12, 2021

On Friday April 9, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued its first Local Law 97 Adjustments Application Filing Guide. DOB began accepting adjustment applications on April 12, 2021 via its DOB NOW: Safety website.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Before joining UCS in 2021, Shen worked for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Work of the Future Task Force while earning a master’s degree in policy and transportation at the school. Yes, premature death.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. 2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

Covered buildings will be required to gradually reduce emissions, relative to a 2018–2019 baseline, over compliance periods starting in 2026 and 2030. While other cities, including the City of Boston, have passed laws requiring net zero emissions for certain buildings, Cambridge is among the first to set any such target for 2035.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. The EIA reports that: “Fossil fuel sources accounted for about 69% of South Korea’s electricity generation in 2019, and the share of nuclear power accounted for 25%. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

It is one of Canada’s most fundamental environmental laws, and plays a key role in ensuring sound decisions over projects affecting nature, communities, and Indigenous rights. For the first time, we have a law that requires the consideration of a project’s total carbon pollution before it gets approved.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2021 and 26.6% DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Read more here. 30 to Jan.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On October 13, 2021, the State of California, on behalf of the Office of the Attorney General and the California Air Resources Board (CARB, and together, the State), filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD or the District) adoption of Rule 2305. By Joshua T.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators a record total of 6,860 violations for all infractions of law and regulations in 2023, nearly 52% more than in 2021. Read more here (2017-2021). Click Here for list of all major enforcement actions listed by conventional oil and gas operator. Read more here. Read more here (2022).

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Beginning in 2019, following a request from New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, BOEM convened a Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force to identify opportunities for leasing and development on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Maine. About the Author. Josh Rosen is an associate at Foley Hoag, LLP.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Despite the odd name (and greatly overused TLA ), the IRA contains a huge number of elements, totalling roughly $350 billion of investment, in climate solutions over the next ten years.

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Law and Environment

JULY 29, 2021

On July 12, 2021, in a landmark utility effort to electrify New York City’s building stock, Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) issued a request for proposals (RFP) for non-pipeline solutions (NPS). Proposals are due by 3 pm on August 31, 2021. The RFP is an implementation vehicle for the utility’s Main Replacement Program.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. Starting with stakeholders.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — 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 If climate change forecasts prove accurate, the summer of 2021 was a dress rehearsal for the future. World of scarcity’.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 in 2019 because it was bad for consumers, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Despite the partial repeal, H.B.

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Acoel

JULY 16, 2021

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Robert Percival. Earlier this month more than 300 professors and graduate students throughout the world participated in the first virtual colloquium of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Academy of Environmental Law.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

The 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report issued by DEP in December shows conventional oil and gas operators received a record 610 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them and unconventional shale gas operators received 27 NOVs. Click Here for DEP’s summary of violations for 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 30, 2021

17-1108, 2021 WL 2217454 (1st Cir. June 2, 2021). © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice. In re Lac-Megantic Train Derailment Litig. , In re Celotex Corp. , 3d 619, 629 (4th Cir. Sugar , 913 F.2d

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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 7, 2022

In March, a PUC Administrative Law Judge Joel H. On the agenda of the Public Utility Commission December 8 meeting is a request by Sunoco Pipeline for a $48,000 refund of a $51,000 penalty it paid to the PUC for Mariner East Pipeline construction violations.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On Monday, November 8, 2021, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the US Department of Commerce announced its first enforcement case against a company, Pennsylvania-based SP Industries, Inc. (SP Huawei and the two subsidiaries (among other affiliates) had been added to the Entity List in May 2019.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

301 (formerly Senate Bill 185), which was signed by Governor Edwards on June 14, 2021 and will become effective on August 1, 2021. In 2019, North Carolina passed legislation similar to Act 301 in Louisiana, requiring the state regulatory agency to enact regulations addressing decommissioning of utility-scale solar projects. [6]

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 18, 2021

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Following the EU’s lead with the approval of the European Green Deal , Spain has produced a new framework to address climate change, including strategies, plans, and laws. The PNIEC and the Law on Climate Change include a target of GHG emission reduction of 23% by 2030 compared to 1990. For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2022

This funding is in addition to the federal well plugging program established in the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is expected to bring Pennsylvania up to $395 million for conventional oil and gas well plugging over the next 15 years. Wolf let House Bill 2644 (Causer-R-Cameron) become law without his signature.

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Endangered Species Law

MARCH 13, 2023

The 12-month finding was made to comply with a September 20, 2021 court-ordered remand of the Service’s previous “not warranted” finding in August 2019. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) issued its 12-month finding that listing Joshua trees ( Yucca brevifolia and Y.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 24, 2021

These individuals were previously barred from voting under North Carolina’s felony disenfranchisement law tracing back to the 1860s and 1870s. The team argued that the law violated the state’s constitution for discriminating against Black citizens in both intent and effect.

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