Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regulated compliance markets, like California’s or Quebec’s Cap-and-Trade Programs or the European Union’s Emissions Trading System, place a legal requirement on emitting companies. Voluntary carbon markets do not have that same kind of legal obligation. Leakage is essentially the risk that if you halt an activity (e.g.,

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 20, 2021

It is the latest development in China’s regulations of drug change management since the promulgation of the newly amended Drug Administration Law in 2019 and more than 20 regulations and technical guidelines. 2019????????????? “????”???????????????????????????????????????2019????????????? MAH Change. ?????.

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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). A top-down approach begins with atmospheric emissions as recorded by sensors or satellites which can then, by a variety of methods, be attributed to geographic regions or particular categories of emitters. Download as PDF.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

However, Commerce notes that most cryptographic libraries and modules themselves will likely not be impacted by this change because the mass market note (Note 3 to Category 5, Part 2 or the "Cryptography Note") specifically excludes items whose primary function is "information security.". c or 5D992.c Conclusion.

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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. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved. By Michael B.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

On April 7, 2023, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a lengthy published opinion – the latest installment in one of the longer ongoing CEQA battles in recent memory – affirming a judgment finding an EIR for the Federal relicensing of Oroville Dam and related hydropower facilities legally adequate. of Water Resources (2023) Cal.App.5th.

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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.) A “covered product” is a product regulated through EPCA, and includes several categories of home appliances.)

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 21, 2022

A suspension temporarily excludes a company from government contracting pending the outcome of an investigation and subsequent legal proceedings.[[N: A contractor also may be debarred for violating federal or state antitrust laws relating to the submission of offers.[[N: June 11, 2019), [link]. ]]. 17, 2019), [link]. ]].

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

2019), the Fifth Circuit blurred the line between these categories and expanded the cases that can be removed to federal court. If the non-diverse defendant is dismissed, calculate the appeal delays under state law. The Lane Construction Corporation , 927 F.3d 3d 287 (5th Cir. If so, closely monitor the status of this filing.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Maintaining that the plaintiff qualified as a seaman under controlling Fifth Circuit precedent but questioning that precedent in light of Supreme Court case law, the panel urged the Fifth Circuit to review the case en banc. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d 1349(b)(1).

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Maintaining that the plaintiff qualified as a seaman under controlling Fifth Circuit precedent but questioning that precedent in light of Supreme Court case law, the panel urged the Fifth Circuit to review the case en banc. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d 1349(b)(1).

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

But this most recent legal dustup arises in the context of the City’s role as lessor of some 6,100 acres of land it owns in the County. After that tentative ruling was issued, but prior to the merits hearing, the City submitted a declaration as to water diversions to the leased properties in 2019 (6.6 Statute of Limitations.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Thus, the award was given in order to communicate to BBP that it did not have the unrestrained ability to take property without due process of law. Instead, the Third Circuit on its own created a new category of damages for due process violations. Corps of Engineers , 2019-565 (La. Bayou Bridge , 2019-565, (La.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

” Although the concept of holding patients harmless from unanticipated out-of-network medical bills became a national policy priority with bipartisan interest in 2019, it took nearly two years for comprehensive surprise billing reform legislation to get across the finish line. If so, cost-sharing is calculated from the state law amount.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2019, First Bank’s regulator, the National Bank of Romania, identified potential sanctions violations involving a US dollar transaction that First Bank had processed for a shipment of timber from Romania to Syria. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Thus, the award was given in order to communicate to BBP that it did not have the unrestrained ability to take property without due process of law. Instead, the Third Circuit on its own created a new category of damages for due process violations. Corps of Engineers , 2019-565 (La. Bayou Bridge , 2019-565, (La.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

This year promises to be the ‘Year of Climate’ in international courts and tribunals with opinions slated to be coming down from the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. New York law required that the Attorney General prove that ExxonMobil made a misrepresentation of material facts that a reasonable investor would consider in deciding how to act. July 1, 2019). People by James v. BP P.L.C.,

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The stocktake recognizes the science that indicates global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Our practice is focussed on environmental law, energy law and aboriginal law.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

He also repeatedly made the point in recounting the history of conventional drilling that drillers took no action to properly plug or case their oil and gas wells to protect groundwater and prevent methane migration, unless there was a law and regulations making them do it. That was especially true leading up to the 1984 Oil and Gas Act.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 7, 2021

and in October 2019, Doha Mekki, then Counsel to the AAG, testified before Congress about the harms to competition in the labor market and the DOJ’s response.[[N: This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice. 19, 2018).]]

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

Federal agencies could prepare programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS’s) for categories of CCS projects, for example, which would allow much shorter and faster environmental assessments on a project-specific basis. CEQ cited an example of a CO2 pipeline project that successfully took advantage of the FAST-41 process in 2019.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

million acres between 1999 and 2019. The Legal Effect of Oil and Gas Leases Oil and gas leases issued by BLM grant the lessee “the exclusive right to drill for, mine, extract, remove and dispose of all the oil and gas. The company has a legal right to those leases. million acres of land in the NPR-A, in December 1981.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Residents have had to make their own arrangements for clean drinking water since that time because the affected areas are outside the 2,500 foot zone of presumption protected in state law. The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 31, 2023

A "foreign entity of concern" includes over 16 referenced categories of foreign entities, such as a foreign terrorist organization under 8 U.S.C. Bryan is a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law and is employed at Arnold & Porter's Washington, DC office. Bryan is not admitted to the practice of law in Washington, DC.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Residents have had to make their own arrangements for clean drinking water since that time because the affected areas are outside the 2,500 foot zone of presumption protected in state law. The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Previously, I taught law school, practiced solo, worked in the Appellate Section of the Justice Department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division – and way back, I, like you, had the great honor of clerking for Justice Stevens. If not, that would be another reason the petitioners’ legal arguments may be put off for another day.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA said remand would allow the Agency to revisit certain legal, policy, and scientific assumptions, approaches, and decisions. EPA promulgated the challenged rule in 2019 in response to the Ninth Circuit’s issuance of a writ of mandamus in 2017. EPA , 997 F.3d 3d 983 (9th Cir. The House bill ( H.R. 33926 (June 28, 2021).]]

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

In this issue: ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Visit Capitol Hill Fifteen ESA members and graduate students visit Congressional offices for the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event since 2019. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Register here.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 2, 2021

However, in 2022, Congress must pass the next iteration of the UFA reauthorizations in order to fund various activities across FDA, providing a likely vehicle for either to become law, in whole or in part. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice. ” has been struck.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

On September 1, 2021, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the TSCA risk management rule for methylene chloride issued by the Trump Administration in 2019.[[N: It describes how EPA has identified candidate PFAS in 24 categories for which the Agency will require companies to perform testing under TSCA Section 4. Advancement v.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. First, the court found that Exxon failed to show that federal common law justified removal, even if it might provide a defense. and non-U.S. 21-9518 (10th Cir.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

GAO Report Identified Decline in EPA’s Chemical Assessment Processes Since 2019. The risk evaluation’s conclusions that consumer uses do not present an unreasonable risk could preempt state-level restrictions on 1,4-dioxane in personal care, cosmetic, and cleaning products such as restrictions enacted by New York in 2019.[[N:N.Y.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This provides a new lever in regulating cross-border trade, entirely separate from other laws that restrict cross-border transactions (such as trade sanctions, traditional export controls, and reviews of foreign investments by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The Biden Administration has been quick to respond to the unfolding situation in Myanmar (also known Burma): a day after the military, known as the Tatmadaw, seized control of the country's government, the State Department declared the actions a coup d'état, resulting in a cutoff of many categories of foreign assistance. Conclusion.

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