Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Pursuant to court order, EPA must finalize this regulation by December 2, 2020. State law requirements. EPA also looked at the financial health of the industry, cleanups in the sector, federal and state regulatory requirements governing releases of hazardous substances in the sector, and voluntary practices. What’s Next?

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

The state has already made significant progress toward the first goal as a result of the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act and 2007 adoption of a renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS) for major energy producers. For background on the REPS law, see an earlier post on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to repeal the REPS standard.)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Council includes governors of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the chair of the tri-state legislative Chesapeake Bay Commission and the administrator of the EPA on behalf of the federal government. Not Meeting Milestones On October 4, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Government cost-share programs help fund BMPs, but they typically require investments from farmers. In 1993, it enacted the region’s first law requiring its largest farms to have nutrient management plans to guide fertilizer and manure applications. They are often reluctant to participate in government farm programs.

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Conservation 2025 Clean Water Act Environmental Protection 90

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

January 6, 2020. The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. In response, the report identifies a water allocation fee on local governments that receive drinking water from Jordan Lake as a possible funding mechanism.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Passed nearly a year ago, the American Rescue Plan Act is injecting needed funding into aging water and sewer infrastructure. Contractors for Houston Public Works install a wastewater and drainage project in the Greater Eastwood neighborhood in this file photo from 2020. Photo © Elizabeth Conley / Circle of Blue.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Savvy players in the environmental industrial complex and associated industries will find business opportunities to lead and profit in environmental matters, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws. Drinking Water.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But this is a city where 20 percent of residents report “often” or “always” reducing their spending on basic needs to afford their water bill. Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. They ripple out into the local economy.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Deforestation Rainforest 2020 2018 52

Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Deforestation Rainforest 2020 2018 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James, a faith-based grassroots organization fighting to reduce pollution in the community, and lawyers at Earthjustice, a national nonprofit environmental law organization, and other community groups led the years long battle. billion complex in St. USA: How many burial sites are on the land where Formosa Plastics plans to build?

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2016 Air Pollution 2017 Waste 52

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The association also built a state-of-the art water quality monitoring network across the lake’s 192 square-mile watershed. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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Law Waste Clean Water Act 2022 290

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In its friend of the court brief in the Idaho case, the American Petroleum Association, the American Gas Association, and the Association for Oil Pipelines complained that the Clean Water Act led to a permitting system so “onerous” that the failure to obtain a permit after years of waiting “can be ruinous.”

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Clean Water Act Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions 2015 262

ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Coral Reef Task Force and requires the federal government to create a new national coral reef resilience strategy and new coral reef action plans. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Our fellows serve in limited-term academic appointments at UCLA Law to support our research, teaching, and public service initiatives. Our new fellows join Beth Kent, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2020-22. Wells Environmental Law Clinic next semester. from Harvard Law School.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The result is nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land. Collectively they produced 294 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, ranking fifth nationally. billion bushels.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . There’s no excuse for these blooms to be happening in Michigan.”.

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Regulations Waste 2022 2015 354

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

For those uninitiated in the moving target describing what are “navigable waters of the United States,” defining where those waterways begin and end, has since the enactment of the 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act been the subject of disputes between the federal government and land owners.

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Clean Water Act 2015 2019 Environmental Protection 52

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

There is nothing attractive, though, about Lake Erie’s annual algal bloom, or the harmful blooms that now contaminate so many of America’s iconic waters, among them the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Champlain, and California’s Clear Lake. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .

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Vermont Law

APRIL 22, 2020

April 2020. in 1970 inspired nations to create sweeping, new environmental law regimes. environmental laws arose in part from Earth Day. Many of these early advocates later took up the work of implementing the resulting suite of environmental laws – myself included. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. theory and.

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E2 Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

On April 6, the Supreme Court used the “Shadow Docket” to reinstate a Trump administration regulation governing state water quality certifications under section 401 of the Clean Water Act. 42,210 (July 13, 2020) , codified at 40 C.F.R. Louisiana v. American Rivers, No. 21A539 (U.S. See 85 Fed.

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Clean Water Act Regulations 2020 2023 52

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

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. May 1, 2020). Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. Photographs by J.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The EPA proposes reinstating the Clean Water Act definition that existed before 2015. Two federal agencies sign an order affirming their duty to protect the interests of Native American tribes in land and water management. And lastly, the CDC investigates cases of liver disease linked to bottled water. “As

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Clean Water Act 2015 Climate Change Government 130

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. The court found that, as pled, the complaint was “premised solely on state law” and that City of New York v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 40

Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

The Biden administration unveiled its “ action plan ” for global water security that acknowledges water scarcity and pollution abroad can threaten U.S. The plan in some ways is standard government boilerplate: collaboration, partnerships, data, whole-of-government approach. Local Government and Water Infrastructure.

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Clean Water Act Government Climate Change 2017 147

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us. In response, 27 states sued , and the rule was put on hold.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. Preliminary 2020 TRI Dataset Shows “Seemingly Limited” Scope for PFAS Reporting. EPA Added Substances to Safer Chemical Ingredients List.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Late last week, Judge William Alsup vacated the Trump-era EPA amendments to the regulations governing water quality certifications under section 401 of the Clean Water Act. EPA had requested remand, and made clear that it disagreed with the amendments promulgated in 2020, but it opposed vacatur.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sams holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Business Administration from Concordia University-Portland and a master’s of legal studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma. The Arctic Circle saw record-high temperatures in 2020, NOAA report finds – CBS News. Innovation and Competition Act ( S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 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. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision. and non-U.S. Haaland , Nos.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Lawmakers are working to pass a short-term spending package to keep the government open in October. Congress appears likely to pass a short-term spending measure keeping the government funded through Dec. The current government fiscal year ends Sept. In this issue: Congress. Executive Branch. International. Joe Manchin (D-WV).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

American Rescue Plan Funding -- Bay Journal: PA Takes ‘Historic’ Action To Fund Clean Water Projects And Help The Chesapeake Bay - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?

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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.

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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. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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