Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2019, at the last face-to-face Assembly, the Swiss proposed a resolution to assess the science and possible governance of ‘climate altering techniques’ aka geoengineering. Wider involvement The most striking development compared to 2019 was that this time around many more countries got involved. What’s the procedure?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. Gray: This is really about a distinction between regulated compliance markets and voluntary carbon markets.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 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. The grid operator is PJM, which serves about 50 million in mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. Normally, FERC’s failure to decide wouldn’t be subject to judicial review.

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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. In the U.S.,

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Bill C-50 ensures a more certain, consistent and reliable approach to energy transition policies The Sustainable Jobs Act is a law that mandates future government action. Unlike criminal laws that tell you and me what to do (and not do!), The government first promised it in 2019, but only introduced it to Parliament in June 2023.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

The Environmental Law Clinic at UCLA has also been eager to see this result, because we represented seven law professors who filed an amicus in the case supporting Berkeley’s position.) Perhaps the most troubling question about this opinion is how far it extends. Unfortunately, the panel did not provide that clarity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

Every five years or so, Congress reauthorizes a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar law that has a major impact not only on farmers and ranchers—who make up less than 2 percent of the US population—but also on the environment, public health, and the economy. Where do those lawmakers stand on the issues UCS cares about most?

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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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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The 2019 Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study was recently released by the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. If you have questions about the study or about market trends in M&A transactions you might be involved with, please contact Nina Skinner.

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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. The grid operator is PJM, which serves about 50 million in mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. Normally, FERC’s failure to decide wouldn’t be subject to judicial review.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Shen , a transportation program policy analyst, to talk about the program’s new equitable mobility work. Will the law help transit agencies deal with their looming budget crises? Yes, premature death. That’s not healthy.

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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. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. I’d love to hear from readers about these issues. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables.

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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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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. Impact assessment is all about looking before you leap,” says Stephen Hazell, interim Policy Director with Nature Canada.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Currently, despite its relatively small population of about fifty million, it’s the world’s twelfth largest economy — about the same size as Russia’s economy. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050.

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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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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA codified several robust climate mandates for the State which must be achieved in an accelerated time frame. Read more about the New York State Climate Action Council Final Scoping Plan to Achieve Climate Goals in this accompanying GT Alert. Click here to listen to the podcast episode.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed. Potential solar geoengineering methods. Source: Carbonbrief.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Another survey will be used to collect more detail about the types of education and training that is needed for the schools. Act 101, the landmark 1988 recycling law that made Pennsylvania a leader in 1988, needs multiple updates to meet the demands of today’s economy. In 2019, the most recent year available, 5.25 million tons.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Providing information about outage frequency and duration. billion to $2.2

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

The e-bike industry is booming, but the summer of 2023 has brought sharp questions about how safe e-bikes are, especially for teenagers,” writes Matt Richtel in a long feature titled “ A Dangerous Combination’: Teenagers’ Accidents Expose E-Bike Risks. ” But the laws are treating it like any bicycle.” Journalists should too.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 24, 2022

that directly and indirectly regulate plastic pollution; assessed proposed bills and pending legislation; and developed a comprehensive assessment of how these laws and policies seek to reduce plastic in the environment and contribute to a more circulate economy. Plastic Pollution Pro-Bono Project first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 29, 2024

Large producers of carbon-based fuels will be required to pay “damages” that reflect each producer’s percentage share of carbon emissions from 2000 through 2018 or 2019 divided by a denominator intended to reflect that state’s expected climate damages. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Interested in learning about state-led offshore wind efforts in Maine? 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.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Uncertainty and concern about the process is one reason some Maine voters rejected the proposal. In 2019, city officials in San Jose and San Francisco, explored a public takeover of PG&E, another particularly unpopular IOU, but did not pursue it. So how does a public takeover of an IOU actually work?

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

On Friday, I posted about a decision invalidating BLM Resource Manage Plans for failure to comply with NEPA. When Secretary Zinke terminated the moratorium in 2017, litigation ensued and, in 2019, the Court ruled that the Zinke Order was subject to NEPA. Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate. Emphasis added.).

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That’s raised troubling questions about land consolidation, a decades-long trend fueled by the demise of the family farm. 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 Concerns about water speculation and scarcity aren’t new.

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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.” Fishman harnessed that experience in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed the long-term care industry across New Jersey.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. But what about the companies who are selling the power? Full information about the power mixes and carbon reduction goals of these ten utilities is given at the end of this post.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 19, 2019

These air strikes occurred as a result of terrorist attack on a security convoy in the Pulwama district, which killed 40 Indian law enforcement officials on February 14. Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Law at Barry University School of Law. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Nadia B. Al Jazeera reported.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

A new report gives New York a failing grade for its flood risk disclosure laws. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. The report issued New York an F for its risk disclosure law, saying that the law “stacks the deck against buyers.”

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Circle of Blue

JULY 28, 2022

It’s also about as much water as California is allocated from the river. Discussions about the Colorado River can resemble a doctor’s visit: filled with technical jargon, unfamiliar acronyms, and the anxiety that comes from incomplete understanding. In terms of law and management, the Colorado River basin is split in two.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. 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. Since H.B.

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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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