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DEP To Prohibit Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers With Unresolved Environmental Violations From Getting Conventional Well Plugging Contracts; Drillers Warn - If You Want Wells Plugged You Have To Keep Us In Business

PA Environment Daily

On February 7, the Department of Environmental Protection announced conventional oil and gas drillers with unresolved environmental violations will not be awarded contracts to plug conventional wells under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law oil and gas well plugging program. That's a tilted playing field,” said Stewart.

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Fourth District Rejects CEQA And Municipal Code Challenges To City Of Santa Cruz’s Project Approvals And EIR For Small Multifamily Housing Project

CEQA Developments

In an opinion filed on December 16, 2021, and belatedly ordered published on January 13, 2022, the Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected a CEQA challenge to a small multifamily project in the City of Santa Cruz. City of Santa Cruz (2021) 73 Cal.App.5th Ocean Street Extension Neighborhood Assn. 5th 985 (“ OSENA ”).

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Fourth District Addresses Numerous Significant CEQA Issues In Action Challenging City of San Diego’s Utility Undergrounding Projects

CEQA Developments

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. City of San Diego (2021) Cal.App.5th. 4th 1209, 1223.)

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Arizona’s Future Water Shock

Circle of Blue

Last year Scottsdale authorities, concerned about the effects of the megadrought and the August 2021 federal Colorado River water shortage declaration, decided to protect the city’s 241,000 residents. The city set a December 31, 2022 deadline for the water shut off. . But another important waiver was included.

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Rethinking the Willow Project: Did BLM Have Other Options?

Law Columbia

The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. As noted above, BLM leases grant the lessee exclusive rights to extract oil and gas, but those rights are “granted subject to applicable laws, the terms, conditions, and. It should be noted that this quote is from the current “ form lease ” used by BLM.

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UK Economic Crime Group: Enforcement Update

Arnold Porter

We also report on recent updates in relation to sanctions and the growth of cryptoasset-related regulation. Regulators concluding the HBOS investigation with no further action against senior managers. million for misleading its regulator, the FRC. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022. KPMG fined £18.4

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The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the New York Constitution

E2 Law Blog

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility.