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Bounty laws and citizen suits

Acoel

Posted May 24, 2023 by Tracy Hester In a jurisprudential pile-up, the Fifth Circuit has become the arena for two simultaneous legal battles that may shape the law of standing and realign federal environmental law. 8, the Texas abortion bounty statute. In Environment Texas Citizen Lobby v. While all eyes are on the U.S.

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Permitting CO2 Pipelines: Overcoming State and Federal Barriers to CO2 Pipeline Networks

Law Columbia

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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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Shale is the type of underground geologic formation found in various parts of the country, including the Marcellus shale in the Appalachian region and the Haynesville shale in Texas.

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Wind Energy Development in the Gulf of Mexico

The Energy Law Blog

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. The Construction and Operations Plan for this project was approved by BOEM in 2021. federal waters.

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CEQ Recommends Carbon Capture Policy Fixes to Congress for the Path Ahead

Arnold Porter

Federal agencies could prepare programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS’s) for categories of CCS projects, for example, which would allow much shorter and faster environmental assessments on a project-specific basis. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved.

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The Slippery Notion of Boycotts in the Anti-ESG Movement

Law Columbia

Photo credit: GRIDArendal on Visualhunt Antitrust – a previously dormant area of law and federal enforcement – has reached a new zenith in recent years. Most of the rhetoric and activity has occurred in the first two categories in the US, so we focus there, in an effort to differentiate political narratives from legal reality.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

Before starting, here’s a little more background about the three cases: Texas v. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Maybe we could start by having you say a bit about yourself and your role in the Texas case.