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NRDA Settlement Reached for 2014 Galveston Bay Oil Spill

The Energy Law Blog

On December 3, 2021, the Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register of a settlement between Federal and State Trustees and Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve natural resource damages from a 2014 oil release. In November 2021, the U.S. 68686, and goes through January 3, 2022.

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The Second Circuit Takes on the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution Provision and Climate Change

Law Columbia

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. By Michael Burger *. Photo by Alexander Tsang – Unsplash.

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Policy News: July 12, 2021

ESA

The Department of Energy Science for the Future Act increases recommended funding levels for the Office of Science to $11.1 Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. billion for NOAA, a 19% increase over FY 2021 levels. billion by 2026. 3524 ) to address some of the China provisions in the Senate bill.

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

The Department of Energy Science for the Future Act increases recommended funding levels for the Office of Science to $11.1 Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. The Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act ( H.R. billion by 2026.

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