Smith Enviorment

OCTOBER 30, 2023

October 30, 2023. Farm Act (Senate Bill 582/ Session Law 2023-63). Stay tuned for future litigation over those determinations. The reference to ‘‘interstate wetlands’’ as a stand-alone category of jurisdictional wetlands has been removed. See State Law: Removing Wetlands from “Waters of the State”.) In Sackett v.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 4, 2023

Just transition litigation is a novel and under-researched field. Based on the analysis, the report: Proposes a definition of the concepts of just transition and just transition litigation through the different dimensions and affected persons that play a role in how cases may play out. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 17, 2023

In December 2021, the Sabin Center launched the Peer Review Network of Global Climate Litigation (Network) , through which practitioners and scholars from the around the world act as “rapporteurs” for their jurisdictions, helping to update and maintain the Global Climate Change Litigation database (see also here and here ).

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The trail blazing litigation related to PFAS is the multi-district litigation (MDL) in federal court in South Carolina involving fire-fighting foam that contains PFAS (aqueous film-forming foams or AFFF). The early stages of this litigation were focused on PFAS in drinking water as a result of releases of AFFF. California A.B.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v. 598 U.S. , (2023) (slip. Finally, it states that a third category (category C), consisting of wetlands “adjacent” to traditional navigable waters, is “includ[ed]” within B. EPA , 598 U.S. at (slip op.

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Ivy Protocol

JULY 25, 2023

2023) , over 8,296 entities had joined the United Nations-backed ‘Race to Zero’ campaign by February 1st, 2023, and the Science Based Targets initiative has approved science-based targets for 2,217 companies. It’s more than just a marketing tactic — it’s a policy conundrum, as well. As highlighted in a study by Trouwloon et al.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

On April 7, 2023, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a lengthy published opinion – the latest installment in one of the longer ongoing CEQA battles in recent memory – affirming a judgment finding an EIR for the Federal relicensing of Oroville Dam and related hydropower facilities legally adequate. of Water Resources (2023) Cal.App.5th.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Located in a steep valley directly west of Interstate 15, the Project site is also located adjacent to parcels of land zoned “semi-rural residential” and in proximity to a number of residential communities, which resulted in strong public opposition to the Project ultimately leading to litigation. City of Pomona (2023) 92 Cal.App.5th

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

The case was relinquished to the Grand Chamber in April 2022, and the hearing took place in March 2023 ( webcast ). Following litigation that went up to the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative court), Mr. Carême applied to the ECtHR under Articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

After the 2023 NEPA amendments, does the agency have to do some kind of environmental review before setting a fire next to a wilderness area? That means more litigation. It’s going to take time to sort out the consequences, which means more litigation. There’s nothing unique about this legal issue.

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Law Columbia

MAY 19, 2023

The FAR Proposed Rule divides federal contractors into two broad categories—“significant” and “major” contractors—and imposes different disclosure obligations on each. The CFTC’s RFI period closed in October 2022.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

Photo credit: Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management On March 13, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) approved a major oil drilling operation on the North Slope of Alaska. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. The outcome of the litigation remains uncertain.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 31, 2023

On March 23, 2023, the Department of Commerce's (DoC) CHIPS Program Office, within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), published a new proposed rule aimed at preventing the improper use of Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act funding. Williamson contributed to this Advisory.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 5, 2023

In June of 2023, the stable statutory foundation for NEPA abruptly shifted. debt, the Builder Act (Title III of Division C of the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act) amended and dramatically expanded the provisions in NEPA dealing with environmental impact statements.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. Because the Clean Air Act restricts litigants to objections presented in the rulemaking, this is a (in our view, fatal) legal problem for the challengers. With that background, let’s find out more about how the oral arguments went. Q: Hi, Sean.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

[[N:A third type of risk, which potentially could have a significant impact on companies including insurers (and therefore on their investors, customers, and counterparties as well) is "liability risk" that could escalate as a result of climate-related litigation.]].

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This quarterly newsletter provides essential updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business. Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This quarterly newsletter provides essential updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business. » Litigation. Litigation. Table of Contents. Petitioners and EPA Asked Ninth Circuit to Set Briefing Schedule for DecaBDE Rule. California. Pennsylvania.

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Legal Planet

MAY 31, 2023

I thought that the language in debt ceiling bill took out the word “potentially”, which would narrow the category of major federal actions at least somewhat. It defines a category of actions but doesn’t distinguish between major and minor ones. I predict lots of fun litigation. Two things have gone wrong here.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This quarterly newsletter provides essential updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business. Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

” In 2023, the Supreme Court ended fifty years of broad federal protection to wetlands in Sackett v. A footnote explains that this category includes “”all other waters of the United States that could be regulated under the federal government’s Constitutional powers to regulate and protect interstate commerce.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has openly stated that the purpose of this litigation is to protect the fossil fuel industry , and the only representatives of the automotive industry in the case have entered to defend EPA’s new standards. National League of Cities and U.S.

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