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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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

December 14, 2023. General Assembly returned to a very aggressive effort to influence environmental rules in 2023. Farm Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 582) and the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023 (House Bill 600) all contained provisions weakening existing environmental protections and in some cases preventing adoption of new standards.

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

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. While all eyes are on the U.S. 8, the Texas abortion bounty statute. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in 2022.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA granted primacy to Louisiana on December 28, 2023, for Class VI wells, effective February 5, 2024. CO2 sequestration projects inject CO2 into the subsurface and are subject to these EPA regulations. EPA’s Class VI regulations for CCS projects cover the entire lifecycle, from planning to post-closure to safeguarding USDWs.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

The certainty that GHG reduction is the environmental issue of 2023 is more than a Magic 8 Ball prediction, although we do regularly consult one of the 1960s era plastic spheres I keep on my desk.”. In 2023 the issue of increasing population in China is “out” and increasing population in India is “in.” Stuart Kaplow.

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2023

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Robert L. Madison established that “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” At that time, the leading case on judicial review of agency interpretations of the law, Skidmore v. The familiar two-step deference doctrine in Chevron v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign into law tomorrow. Require that cumulative impacts , or the full spectrum of pollution sources, are considered in policies and permitting regulations. Michigan legislators recently passed a series of energy-related bills that Gov. The package represents progress on a number of fronts.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Million -- TribLive: Fetterman Says He Is ‘Not A Progressive’ Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Threads PA Environment Digest Feed Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: December 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest Keystone Goldwater Conference Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011. Read more here.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 25, 2022

This blog is a microcosm of the issues we assist clients with daily in our own non-law and law practice. ESG law is still new and emergent. In 2023 this blog will continue providing strategic intelligence on ESG law, including critical insights into sustainability for the business community, NOT just for lawyers.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commissioner Barrow Background Barrow has been involved in the utility regulation industry for more than two decades. Gardner, where she provided legal advice regarding utility regulation, reviewed draft public utility legislation, and authored statements of policy for the Commissioner.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

THURSDAY 10:00: Independent Regulatory Review Commission meets to consider Final Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil and Gas Operations. WEDNESDAY 6:30: Ohio River Valley Institute Hosts Webinar On Policy Action In Response To The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment & Beyond. 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2023

16 [PaEN] -- WITF: Allentown-based C.F. Martin First US Company To Receive Sustainability Certification For Plastic-Free Guitar -- Aug. Martin First US Company To Receive Sustainability Certification For Plastic-Free Guitar -- Aug. Of Labor & Industry Reports Record Low 3.5%

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In August, French regulators suspended thermal pollution standards for rivers, allowing nuclear plants to overheat streams. Two weeks ago, the Zambezi River Authority ordered the operators of Kariba Dam to halt hydropower generation through at least January 2023, worsening electricity shortages in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

January 5, 2023. Hughes water supply options for Teravalis, some available now, others that will require a change in state law and regulation, include tapping another aquifer and delivering water by pipeline. The law also requires developers to replenish aquifers with the same amount of water that they withdraw. .

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

It seems likely that the conservative majority of the justices will erode or, perhaps, dramatically jettison longstanding principles of environmental law and policy in the coming months. I profiled the Sheetz case in an earlier Legal Planet post when the justices granted review in late 2023. Over the past four decades, U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Capitol Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million To Delaware Estuary Program, Including Support For Mussel Hatchery At Philadelphia's Bartram's Gardens [PaEN] -- Dept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

Partnerships are needed to help assess new market regulations for major exports, certification and traceability requirements and systems, and new creative, locally based solutions to improve value chains and ensure market access for sustainable, forest-based products. The Emmett Institute is co-sponsoring the GCF Task Force Annual Meeting.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Because of this backlog, FERC promulgated Order 2023 – RM22-14-000 to speed up this process.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Is it simply a lack of political will? ( *side eye fossil fuel industry) You don’t have to look any further than the oil and gas lobbyists in government offices every day of the month crying wolf about how unfair and destabilizing climate policy would be to their profits. What were they able to achieve?

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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. If C (adjacent wetlands) were not part of A (“the waters of the United States”) and therefore subject to regulation under the CWA, there would be no point in excluding them from that category.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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. It is anticipated that BOEM will seek to hold the first GOM wind lease sale in 2023. 585.106.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

These laws have asserted rights for nature, the right of the community to local self-government, and the right to be free from the dumping of frack waste to protect those rights.” We passed a law that protected Grant Township from this injection well, and have been taken to court repeatedly for doing so.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. USA: Nestlé’s Latest Exploits: The case against Nestlé hasn’t stopped growing.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As I noted in my introductory post on the Commission, I served as an advisor to the Secretariat and my students in the UCLA International Climate Law and Policy Clinic provided research and analytic support to the Secretariat. It is thus consistent with large body of prior international law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2022

Our new book, Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture , aims to fill this information gap and provides the first comprehensive overview of the law and policy of agricultural emissions in the United States. FARMING FOR OUR FUTURE, CH. Policy opportunities abound. Gerrard and John C.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching implications for economic, social, and political stability. This will require long-term finance and novel mechanisms to regulate how the public and private sectors work together.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. Rhodium found that “the full suite of current policies on the books as of June 2023 drives US emissions to 32-51% below 2005 levels in 2035. Subsidies indirectly promote stronger regulation.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T T accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles. China fines Toyota 87.6

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. *in Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million, upgrade Port Arthur refinery Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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