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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is still awaiting funding to craft the regulations needed to implement the laws, though it has indicated it will begin the process soon. However, the existence of federal regulations on the same subject as a state law does not mean that state law is necessarily preempted. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

Now, SB 1137 protects communities by establishing a setback distance of 3,200 feet for homes, schools, parks, or businesses open to the public from new wells, and requires comprehensive pollution controls for existing oil wells within the setback zone. Two new laws address this issue on different fronts.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. EPA also should select the “less stringent” alternative to the rule, providing additional time for control technology retrofits. Eugene M.

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

This Rule continues to use the same time-tested, court-affirmed methodology EPA has long used to identify cost-effective pollution controls and equitably allocate reductions among upwind States. And the Rule’s longer-term requirements for power plants are based on common controls already installed at two-thirds of U.S.

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Colorado Law Will Lead the Nation in Reducing GHGs from Buildings

Greenbuilding Law

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. As part of its target methodology , the state determined about 40% of the 8,000 buildings covered under the program already meet standards for the 2026 target.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. By January 1, 2022, MDE must adopt regulations that establish license eligibility criteria, minimum training standards, license terms, and fees for license applications and renewals. Neonicotinoids.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro And The Shale Gas Company CNX -- TribLive: Many West Deer Residents Calling For More Stringent Regulations On Shale Gas Drilling In Allegheny County -- TribLive: Indiana Twp. Rezoning Would Accommodate Fracking Off Route 910 In Westmoreland County -- TribLive: Natural Gas Well Fracking Plans On Hold In Indiana Twp.