Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water. Dernbach told Circle of Blue. It doesn’t need to be long.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The law is clear and has been since 1991. Lawyers with Salmon and Trout Conservation lodged a complaint with the post-Brexit environmental watchdog in the United Kingdom, accusing the government and Ofwat of failing to enforce the law to stop water companies from discharging raw sewage into rivers. appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Riparian rights were inherited and adapted from British common law and are primarily used in rainy eastern states. If you follow water issues in this state, you may have read about severe curtailments in recent years. They can, however, once they have enacted an emergency regulation that sets a minimum flow in the river.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. About 45,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment are being removed from rivers in downtown Milwaukee. Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2023

New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting , a lawsuit challenging the state’s March 2021 regulations for siting and permitting major renewable energy facilities. For more information about the new siting process, see my previous blogs here and here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the December 16 PA Bulletin prohibiting the sale of electronic devices by Wiltronic Corp (IVIEW) as a result of violations of the Covered Device Recycling Act-- Pennsylvania’s electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

On August 19, 2021, New York state enacted legislation requiring banks to adopt check processing practices intended to minimize non-sufficient funds charges. New York’s new law, which becomes effective on January 1, 2022, will have a potentially significant impact on banks operating in New York. What are the new requirements?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) , in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable energy projects. Docket Nos.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2024

The public’s ability to weigh in on new rules and regulations proposed by agencies lies at the heart of a strong democracy. Federal agencies are required by law to read and consider these comments. On most federal webpages today, it is far too difficult for the public to find out about new proposed rules.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 26, 2021

As we look back in this ‘year in review’ at our most read blog posts in 2021, at a time when most of us have accepted that we will never go back to exactly the way things were, we are no doubt collectively ready for a new year. And we are incredibly excited about the prospects for our clients to maximize the opportunities ESG presents.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2023

The proposal to regulate PFAS as a class of chemicals allows the government to more effectively address the human health and environmental harms associated with these thousands of chemicals in products. Additional information: The government signalled in 2021 that it would be proposing a class-based approach to PFAS regulation in Canada.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since you’re probably more interested in the second point than the first one —unless you’re a real administrative law geek— let’s start with that one. The grid operator is PJM, which serves about 50 million in mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. In 2021, PJM changed its mind. These are called “energy markets.”

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ? That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The SWRCB is currently using watershed-based emergency regulations under Water Code section 1058.5 The SWRCB imposed the maximum penalty for this violation: $4,000, or about $50 per water user within the violating group. These actions include enabling more effective curtailment regulations and enhancing curtailment enforcement options.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Federal regulations-- 40 CFR 261-- which are followed by the state regulations, say any drilling fluids, produced waters or other waste from exploration, development or production of oil, natural gas or geothermal energy are exempt from hazardous waste regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2021 and 26.6% DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021. Providing information about outage frequency and duration. billion to $2.2

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Elder Vogel (R-Beaver) at the March 22 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DEP’s budget request , the Department of Environmental Protection said it is projecting a $1,581,000 deficit in funding for the Oil and Gas Regulation Program. The claims that Pennsylvania has the toughest oil and gas regulations in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We then drafted state legislation to require disclosure of climate change-related financial risks, which was introduced by California State Senator Henry Stern as SB 449 (Stern) in the 2021-2022 session. While SB 449 was held in the Appropriations Committee in 2022, Senator Stern re-introduced the bill with amendments as SB 261 in 2023.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) has proposed and invited comment on a 60-day postponement of the effective date of recently finalized amendments to Regulation F, which implements the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Comments on the proposed rule are due no later than May 19, 2021.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The final code (summarized by DOER here ) has been submitted to the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy for review as required under state law. In short, the new regulations unquestionably set the Commonwealth on a course to electrify new construction and squeeze carbon emissions out of new buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2021, DEP reported 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) was sent to LLRW facilities for disposal, while all other industries combined in the four state compact sent 46,546 cubic feet of traditionally defined low-level radioactive waste. Volume is high. Activity is low,” said Janati.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Since you’re probably more interested in the second point than the first one —unless you’re a real administrative law geek— let’s start with that one. The grid operator is PJM, which serves about 50 million in mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. In 2021, PJM changed its mind. These are called “energy markets.”

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 30, 2021

The Louisiana legislature has passed new laws requiring employers to provide accommodations for certain pregnant employees and limiting an employer’s use of an applicant’s criminal history in hiring decisions. Both laws become effective on August 1, 2021. Amendment to Pregnancy Accommodation Law. Modifying work schedules.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 3, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced its execution of a consent order (the Order) with Residential Mortgage Services, Inc. The Order is just one place in which the NYDFS has stressed the importance of conducting cybersecurity risk assessments.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. What is the case about? . The Court determined that regulating the country’s power grid and phasing out coal presented a major question.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — December 7, 2021. That’s raised troubling questions about land consolidation, a decades-long trend fueled by the demise of the family farm. And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Customer Use Heating Oil Tanks Exempt The 1989 state Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act does not regulate tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises, unless they are specifically regulated by Federal law. Click Here for information on aboveground storage tanks regulated by DEP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is one of the go-to sources for reliable information about the US power sector. It’s widely viewed as the “gold standard” for energy projections, even though there’s much debate in the energy community about the validity of the assumptions behind these projections.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 directed the U.S. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law ’s latest paper, Permitting CO 2 Pipelines: Assessing the Landscape of Federal and State Regulations , assesses the legal framework for developing CO 2 pipelines to support DAC Hub projects.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 10, 2021

On November 23, 2021, the federal banking agencies—i.e., On November 23, 2021, the federal banking agencies—i.e., as defined under the respective regulations of the Agencies. as defined under the respective regulations of the Agencies. Applicable regulations exempt financial market utilities—i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The DEP found that, from 2017 through 2021, more than half of owners of “conventional” gas wells failed to report how much gas they extracted and that operators abandoned, without plugging, more than 3,000 methane-spewing wells. That provides an incentive for abandonment rather than obeying the law. Former Gov. His successor, Gov.

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