E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), the two federal agencies conferred by Congress with authority to oversee federal CWA implementation. Finally, it states that a third category (category C), consisting of wetlands “adjacent” to traditional navigable waters, is “includ[ed]” within B. at (slip op.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Though the CFTC’s mission originally focused on futures and options for agricultural commodities, Congress expanded its authority over the years to include oversight of other types of derivatives as well. Climate Risk in the Derivatives Market As the CFTC’s Congressional mandate has grown, so have the financial risks posed by climate change.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

In 2008, Congress directed EPA to develop a rule to “require mandatory reporting of GHG emissions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy.” The basic idea underpinning preemption is that federal law may take precedence over state law where Congress intends for federal law to control. See, e.g. , Rice v. 218 (1947)).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories. Finally, UCS endorsed the Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2021 and testified before Congress on the risks climate change posed to the US financial sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

Outdoor workers in the Central Valley by category. Similar legislation in Congress is named for Asunción Valdivia, a father and a farmworker who died after working a 10-hour shift. Altogether there are about 855,000 people working in outdoor jobs across the Central Valley.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

These collective efforts have resulted in improved “grades” by NGOs and the media in all sorts of categories. But I was alarmed to see one category of Bay health continue to decline. Hooray for the Bay! Let’s keep going!

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

A major hurricane is rated category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale, a rating system based on wind speed. The EPA will submit a report to Congress every two years on the working group’s activities. By the Numbers. 3 to 6 : Number of major hurricanes that NOAA is forecasting for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts this season.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 30, 2020

Since Congress enacted the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act), federal circuit courts have contemplated the issue of whether groundwater pollution falls under the “navigable water” provision of the Clean Water Act’s (CWA)—albeit without tenable guidance.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 2022, plastic foam takeout containers were the seventh most common item collected by volunteers globally—that’s the highest a plastic-foam item has ranked since Ocean Conservancy started tracking this category a decade ago. Tell Congress to say, “What The Foam,” and pass legislation getting rid of these items across the country.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

Nearly 89 percent of nine western states are in some form of drought, and more than a quarter of the region is considered in exceptional drought, the worst category in the U.S. He was the director of the National Integrated Drought Information System, a drought monitoring and planning collaborative set up by Congress. Drought Monitor.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Congress should seize the nearly unprecedented opportunity to strengthen investments in climate-friendly agriculture and traditional conservation for decades to come. Appendix Table 1. Livestock Partnership Anaerobic Digester $1,806,244 $3,943,914 0.3% Rice Irrigation Water Management $7,412,341 $7,412,341 0.6% Grand Totals $381,524,784 30.1%

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

W for projects below 1 MW, with initial block sizes of 30 MW for each size category, incentivizing a total of 150 MW across multiple blocks. Con Edison Non-residential/C&I. New MW Block with initial incentive rates of $0.75/W W for projects 1 MW and larger, and $1.30/W Community Adder. W for upstate projects, and $0.10/W

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

It remanded the case to the Fifth Circuit for further review of a narrow category of state officials who might still be sued in state court. If the Fifth Circuit adopts this rigorous threshold of proof for specific concrete injuries-in-fact, it would bolster federal Article III limits on Congress’ power to authorize citizen suits.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These two categories allow for flexibility in meeting the sector’s changing needs for workforce training. NSAC looks forward to working with Congress and our partners to make sure these critical programs for farmers, ranchers, and the processors that work with them have the support they need to feed our local communities.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 12, 2021

One such category of products is contrast imaging agents. FDA also “intend[s] to reexamine other product categories as well, as appropriate.”[[N: Shalala , 963 F. FDA has regulated certain products meeting the statutory definitions of both “drugs” and “devices” as drugs. ”[[N:86 Fed.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 2, 2022

But even with the oversized flow of dollars into this category, this is not the key driver of ESG (. Congress is expected to act on EGS mandatory disclosures in 2022. While the number seems tripe, at the beginning of 2022 more than $17 trillion of U.S. is it likely more accurately the end in and of itself, not the means).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Congress enacted the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) requiring post approved and permitted 1977 (coal only) mine owners to remediate any environmental damage that they caused. To address this problem, in 1977 the U.S.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2020

Congress enacted the. There are several categories of actions that NASA would not need conduct a full NEPA analysis, unless extraordinary circumstances arise. by Hunter Sutherland. Every mission, even exploration of other planets, starts with protecting our home, planet. What is NEPA? National Environmental Policy Act.

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Vermont Law

JULY 26, 2020

Government agencies commonly engage in misconduct of some sort, which is why Congress created the APA. The APA lists six categories of agency actions that qualify as a type of misconduct that would allow the courts to intervene through judicial review. [5]. All agency misconduct damages society but not to the same extent.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

The Supreme Court has recognized a small category of state-law claims that “arise under federal law” for purposes of federal question jurisdiction, “because federal law is a necessary element of the. claim for relief.” Minton , 568 U.S. 251, 258 (2013) (citing Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. 308, 314 (2005)).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2023

The counter-argument would be that Congress could have done so itself but chose not to, implying that section 107(f) was supposed to be more freewheeling than subsection (G). What happens if the agency issues a regulation empowering preparation of environmental documents for some categories of projects or applicants but not others?

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 18, 2016

The agency divided up actions into four categories: Immediate Actions, Framework Actions, Early Mandatory Actions, and Later Mandatory Actions (beyond the first year of implementation). Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21 st Century Act (the “Act”), EPA has planned out its implementation activities during the first year.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Next to paper, food waste is the second largest category sent to landfills—it accounts for 18% of the waste stream. Even before Congress passed the Bill Emerson Act, there was no record of any such law suit. In 2010, the United States wasted an estimated 133 billion pounds of post-harvest food.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

And, as momentum grows among the states to prescribe the governing rules for their jurisdictions, Congress may feel prompted to step in and take more aggressive action to create uniformity in mandates for protection of the privacy and security of personal information.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 5, 2024

Notably, USDA chose to forgo protections for “ market vulnerable individuals ,” a novel and expansive category included in the proposed rule that may have protected growers whose ability to compete fairly was impeded in a highly concentrated marketplace on those grounds.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 118th Congress is also due to reauthorize the Farm Bill this year.  Congress should build on that investment with more conservation funding for farmers in the Bay region in the 2023 Farm Bill.  Congress should build on that investment with more conservation funding for farmers in the Bay region in the 2023 Farm Bill. 

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 5, 2023

Congress mandated that FOTO funds be divided equally between Section 2501 and BFRDP, with mandatory funding of $30 million for FY 2020 increasing annually up to $50 million in FY2023. Grant funding will be awarded to three categories of applicants: Category 1 – Minority serving academic institutions (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast in late September of this year as a Category 4 hurricane, it destroyed thousands of homes, cut residents of the region’s barrier islands off from the mainland, and left hundreds of thousands of people without water or power for an extended period of time. Here’s how. #1

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Brag

AUGUST 23, 2023

EPA “intends to consider additional exemptions and expand the list of categories not requiring EPA confirmation as biotechnology progresses.” According to the report, these changes exempt certain PIPs from registration and tolerance requirements while implementing a notification process for transparency.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 6, 2023

One of the key questions lingering over the 2023 farm bill reauthorization is whether Congress will approve a farm bill that builds climate resilience for the countless farmers whose livelihoods depend on it. A test plot of crimson clover at USDA NRCS Plant Material Center.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, approved by Congress and signed by President Biden last November, provides roughly $50 billion over five years for water and sewer systems, the largest federal infusion in the sector in a half century. Congress established the Clean Water SRF in 1987. The culture change came just in time.

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Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In a case that could open the door to more citizen suits to enforce mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act—a category of enforcement actions that has so far failed to gain much traction—the 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion broadly upholding a non-profit organization’s standing.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 22, 2022

To address HFC usage, the American Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Act was enacted by congress on December 27 th , 2020 and is applicable to eighteen specific HFC substances. List of the 18 Regulated HFC Substances & their Corresponding Exchange Values – 42 U.S.C. 7675 subsection (c)(1): .

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 16, 2024

Congress mandates that FOTO funds be divided equally between Section 2501 and BFRDP, with each program to receive $25 million in mandatory funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. Grant funding will be awarded to three categories of applicants: Category 1 – Minority serving academic institutions (e.g.,

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Brag

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

EPA states that it “estimates it has less than half of the resources needed to review and approve new chemicals in the manner Congress intended and observes that the statutory deadlines for completing nine of the first 10 risk evaluations were missed.” percent.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 13, 2021

Colorado will likely be followed by other states in adopting legislation along the same lines, and although Congress will continue to consider proposals for an overarching federal law, it appears that at least in the near term, the states will be the innovators in this area.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 11, 2021

Although the Report details findings and recommendations specific to each product category, it also sets forth common themes and observations applicable to all critical product sectors. The Report also makes six overarching recommendations to help strengthen supply chains for the four critical product categories and rebuild the U.S.

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