Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Our oceans and forests sustain billions of people and provide green jobs – 86 million green jobs from forests alone.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) is slated to make further revisions to its decommissioning regulations, following other decommissioning amendments made last year as previously reported on The Energy Law Blog. 2020-48), the IBLA held the current version of 30 C.F.R. 9598 (Feb. 250.1403; NTL No.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

What’s Up With Water – September 20, 2020 – This week’s episode covers another deadly year for environmental activists, an Indigenous community in Canada celebrating the arrival of clean drinking water, and the risk of flooding throughout the United States. Most coastal desalination facilities discharge their waste back into the ocean.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. .” After all, we hardly had storms or hurricanes in the news for the past 3 months.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 15, 2021

In what many managers and environmentalists are touting as one of conservation’s greatest success stories, the trawl RCA off the coasts of Oregon and California was reopened on January 1, 2020, as described by Amendment 28 to the West Coast groundfish fisheries management plan. Photo credit: © Erika Nortemann.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

Nearly two-thirds of the global ocean and almost half of the planet are marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). However, the deployment of MRE technologies can also have impacts on the environment in ABNJ which require to be considered and regulated in advance in order to guarantee that they are developed in a sustainable way.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

By Daniela Quintero Díaz Government seeks to accelerate offshore projects with an upcoming auction, as experts say regulations and safeguards still need fine-tuning. Potential on the oceans Around the world, offshore wind energy has shown itself to be a promising alternative source of power. GW of additions in 2020.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 10, 2023

In early 2020, certain City Council members began exploring a possible City-sponsored ballot measure to remove the coastal height limit from the entire Midway-Pacific Highway Community Plan Area.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

The successes and failures of international regulation of ocean waste provide a basis for developing a model for effective regulation of orbital debris. Like earth’s orbits, earth’s oceans are a global common where externalities from marine debris are typically not experienced by the producer of the pollution. 9, 2020).

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2016

In the next few days, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish in the Federal Register a Proposed Rule that would result in a significant change on how the agency regulates air emissions from oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM). 1334(a)(8).

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 21, 2022

Criminal convictions involving the procurement process are specifically addressed by the governing regulations. Within months of the criminal case filing, the Federal Maritime Commission informed Dip Shipping that it intended to revoke the company's ocean transportation license.[[N: 8, 2020), [link]. ]]. 11, 2020), [link]. ]].

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. REN-N03 (May 27, 2020). federal waters. The following summarizes those requirements. 585.106.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2020

New, expanded CFIUS regulations went into effect on February 13, 2020. The regulations, dealing with foreign acquisition of control of U.S. Bidders will want to consider whether blocks in which they are interested fall within certain ports or in proximity to certain military installations as described in the regulations.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 15, 2022

These aim to accelerate the uptake of zero-emissions fuels on vessels travelling between major shipping hubs and establish the necessary regulation, infrastructure and technology. “In In 2020, ships moved 31.2 million 20-foot unit containers – 21% of the world’s total – across the Pacific Ocean. Could the IMO get side-lined?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law today released an Electric Resilience Toolkit to support policymakers and stakeholders working on issues around electric sector regulation and climate resilience planning.

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Acoel

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of special note was the enactment in 2020 of legislation to address environmental justice through the permitting process for potentially polluting facilities that are to be located in “overburdened communities.”

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

As a result, Costa Rica began to implement stricter environmental regulations, new conservation policies and changes in the agricultural market. million in 2020, according to official data. In 2020, for example, the country received US$54 million from the Green Climate Fund, in recognition of proving to have captured 14.7

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

It gives us the food we eat, the water we drink, the materials with which we build our homes, and the mechanisms that regulate our weather patterns, our ocean currents, and much more. How the “earth’s systems” regulate our ability to exist and thrive on planet earth has been less understood. Footprints must fall.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Seas are rising and oceans are acidifying. Comply with laws, regulations, and other environmentally-orientated requirements. As such, the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risk report defined the top 3 threats to our current economic system – and therefore society as we know it – to be: Extreme weather.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Some history: Congress passed annual Rivers and Harbors Acts in the late 19th century, to make appropriations to the Corps of Engineers, to regulate construction in navigable waters, and to protect navigable channels. Resource Links: -- Attorney General Thornburgh’s Address to the Oceans ‘88 Conference on October 31, 1988 -- Gov.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

This effluent then travels approximately a half mile, through groundwater, to the Pacific Ocean. The petitioner, the County of Maui, operates a wastewater reclamation facility that collects sewage from the surrounding area, partially treats it, and pumps the treated water through underground wells. 22250 (Apr.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A similar bill passed the Senate in 2020 but did not advance in the House of Representatives. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. The October-December 2020 period was the warmest Arctic autumn on record dating back to 1900 and 2021 was the Arctic’s seventh warmest year on record. Executive Branch.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) recently issued a proposed rule on Risk Management, Financial Assurance and Loss Prevention (“Proposed Rule”), which was published in the Federal Register on October 16, 2020 and is now open for public comment.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rising sea temperatures are impairing the health of marine environments around the islands, by coral bleaching and ocean acidification. In February 2020, the Government committed $25 million in climate adaptation measures for the region, including the construction of seawalls, repairing and maintain jetties and re-establish ferry services.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) recently issued a proposed rule on Risk Management, Financial Assurance and Loss Prevention (“Proposed Rule”), which was published in the Federal Register on October 16, 2020 and is now open for public comment.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Just as key will be new regulations and measures that push the shipping industry to zero emissions, and we caught a glimpse of what those could be during the IMO meeting as well. The post Wind-powered Cargo Vessel Holds Hope for a Greener Future appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

An expert review panel will discuss the scientific basis for the EPA’s regulation of PFAS chemicals in drinking water. Catherine Flowers, a clean water advocate raised in Lowndes County who won a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2020, is vice chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Tijuana River Cleanup Plan.

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A Greener Life

MAY 13, 2021

A single offshore wind farm could employ more than 4,000 people during construction and 150 people long-term, according to a 2020 analysis by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory , a national laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to develop a plan for renewable energy production in the Gulf.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Aliénor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager, Environmental Defence Additional information: The Alberta Energy Regulator issued an order on February 6th to Imperial Oil, Canada’s 3rd largest oil sands producer, in response to two incidents in which wastewater from toxic tailings leaked into the environment.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

And though, from 1985 to 2020, forest cover has remained statistically stable, these numbers are bolstered by the growth of new trees and young vegetation — since 1985, 25 million acres of mature, primary vegetation has been lost. Still, challenges remain: Tree-cutting remains an issue in a forest that is 80 percent privately owned.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

The same plastic that becomes the take-out packaging and single-use items that clog up our landfills, natural areas and oceans. And if that’s not gross enough, Big Plastic is also suing the federal government to try to prevent regulations to reduce plastic pollution that is harming the environment and threatening human health.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company owned a steel mill that discharged toxic chemicals into the ocean, devastating more than a hundred miles of coastline in four central provinces of Vietnam. Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator | July 20, 2020 Formosa plans to build on former sugarcane plantations near the Mississippi River, and Rise St.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

That initiative would have authorized CalRecycle to adopt and enforce regulations requiring that 80 percent of single-use plastic packaging and food service ware, as compared to 2020 levels, be recyclable, compostable, or source reduced by 2030, with an additional requirement that 25 percent of the waste be source reduced.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. This tension is very much alive in using GWPs to regulate. Climate impact.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP. In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

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