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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Legal Planet

Natural Resources Defense Council v. But what makes the case important is the courts use of hard look judicial review, which environmentalists have often used to attack bad regulations. Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. Corey (2019). Atomic Energy Commission (1971). Morton (1972). v.EPA (1975). EPA (2012 ).

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California Adopts Nation-Leading Legislation to Cut Plastic Pollution

Legal Planet

In adopting this law, California joins a handful of other states with extended producer responsibility laws on the books, which brings me back to the history: A substantially different version of this bill failed in an end-of-session vote in 2019.

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Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay: PA Riparian Forest Buffer Project Plants Its 1,000th Acre Of Forest Buffer!

PA Environment Daily

This work started in the spring of 2018 with grant funding from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) as the Alliance sought to offer flexible, comprehensive reforestation support that would help fill gaps in existing programs.

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Mine Cleanup Law Weakened By Coal’s Decline

Circle of Blue

Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. If the operator fails to perform adequate cleanup, state regulators confiscate the bond and use it to hire contractors to finish the job. This is completely out of control,” wrote one Kentucky Department of Natural Resources official in an email to another earlier this year.

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California’s Water Rights System is Inequitable, Inadequate, and Possibly, About to Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

By incentivizing the occupation of land, ownership by force, and exploitation of natural resources, the state and federal governments promoted the violent dispossession and genocide of Native Americans from the land. They can, however, once they have enacted an emergency regulation that sets a minimum flow in the river.

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DEP: Abandoned Shale Gas Water Impoundment Not Used For 7 Years Cited For Not Being Restored In Clarion County

PA Environment Daily

DEP said Laurel Mountain Production also never complied with the basic requirement to register the impoundment with the agency since it was constructed in 2017 as required by state regulations. Impoundments like this must be restored no later than 9 months after their final use, which in this case would have been by February 12, 2019.

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What’s New About Income-Graduated Fixed Charges?

Legal Planet

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns.