Circle of Blue

APRIL 24, 2023

The House fails to overturn President Biden’s veto of legislation to reduce Clean Water Act protections. And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

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Smith Enviorment

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The reference to ‘‘interstate wetlands’’ as a stand-alone category of jurisdictional wetlands has been removed. Scope of North Carolina Legislation Limiting Wetlands Protection. It is possible that Session Law 2023-63 will be modified as a result, but that seems unlikely to happen before adjournment of the 2023 legislative session.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2022

The legislation provides the Bureau of Reclamation $4 billion in funding for drought resilience in the West. It outlines three spending categories for the $4 billion. Circle of Blue’s Brett Walton reports : . “An The gap between needs and available dollars means Reclamation will have to be selective when distributing funds.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Scientists evaluating resource availability through mining typically look at two categories : the total available resources and the reserves. We will be following the next legislative session closely with the hope that good policy is developed. An outline of their process and findings can be found in a recent blog of mine.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Under new legislation, California is moving to a novel system that includes income-based fixed charges for electricity. Some critics contend that this is a giveaway to incumbent utilities. Others have implied that the charges reflect new costs to ratepayers on top of existing rates. This is also not accurate.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2022

Each year, students in 5th through 9th grades from as many as 20 schools design, build, and race model solar cars competing for top places in 4 categories. Founded in 1980, PSEA has hosted the Junior Solar Sprint since 1993, encouraging students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Clean energy jobs are growing one and a half times faster than the rest of Pennsylvania’s economy and cover employment in solar and wind energy, low-impact hydro power, energy efficiency, electric and hybrid vehicles, hydrogen and fuel-cell vehicles, clean energy storage and smart grids, among other categories.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The key legal issue involves state constitutional provisions that provide that “charter cities” have the power to be independent of state legislative matters with respect to “municipal affairs.”

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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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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. In this second post, we discuss how the Cap-and-Trade Program (the Program) features in the Draft Scoping Plan. To date, $10.5

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

If the new legislation is passed, the evaluation score of the Minesing Wetlands will be greatly diminished, and many wetlands, including the Mad River portion of the complex will not meet PSW status.”. Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands. Map showing wetlands in the Niagara Region.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The group quickly agreed that it should support the environmental agencies’ budget requests in two broad categories: water quality improvement and land conservation. VIRGINIA forever brought this to the attention of Virginia’s legislators and they made up the shortfall. The board then sought topics on which to work together.

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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

The report notes, “The effluent quality must comply to 90% [in total] with the authorised limits for the respective categories.”. Five of the 22 Green Drop award winners fall into the NMR category, meaning they are exempt from certain effluent quality indicators. Something is fishy.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2021

If a source (or a category of sources) has only a minor visibility impact, and if installation of controls would do little to affect visibility conditions, states are concluding that the sources need not undergo further control technology analysis. This controversy will ripen over the next year as state plans are finalized.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This legislation will provide critical transparency and accountability to ensure that corporations are meeting their climate goals and that we are protecting our planet for future generations.”

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It also ranks as one of the highest in the air quality app categories on both the Apple and Google Play stores. If another player provided a considerable amount of governmental and legislative information, this gave us yet further insights into a separate group of potential user group interests. how did we do it?

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The 2021-2022 Legislative Session was light on CEQA amendments, and once again did not produce any significant reform. Below is a short summary of the key features of these amendments. The bill also includes both prevailing wage and skilled and trained workforce requirements. The bill amends Public Resources Code sections 21080.20

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This artificial intelligence (AI) legislation adds another piece to the jigsaw puzzle as companies contemplate constructing their global AI regulatory compliance programs. However, the AIDA leaves many of the details of the requirements to the federal government to specify in future regulations, which might lead to a more burdensome regime.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post covers the most significant legislation affecting state water quality protections: AQUACULTURE PERMITTING Replace the existing NPDES General Permit for aquaculture operations. A legislative directive to modify or replace a specific permit appears to cross a significant constitutional line. House Bill 600, Sec.

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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 Next Steps.

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Acoel

AUGUST 25, 2022

Statutory allocations of western water can no longer serve all who demand water, pitting water users against each other and placing pressure on the executive, legislative and judicial branches of state and federal governments to resolve these water conflicts. The demand for federal water rights takes many forms.

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Smith Enviorment

AUGUST 1, 2018

But in recent years, the General Assembly has tried to exercise greater control over some commissions by increasing the number of legislative appointees. Constitution’s requirement for executive, legislative and judicial powers to be entirely separate. Supreme Court ruled in the governor’s favor. Separation of powers. (1)

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

Legislation begets demand. As such, the city has made tackling this emissions source a legislative priority. Robert Clark falls into this latter category. Steam heating systems alone, many of them old and inefficient, account for about 42 percent of NYC’s building emissions.

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Law of the Lands

DECEMBER 17, 2019

explained: This Court has developed a new awareness and understanding of a category of vexatious litigant. E-15, or various other pieces of legislation such as Ontario’s Business Corporations Act , R.S.O. Rooke A.C.J. Consequently they are not subject to the provisions of the Income Tax Act , R.S.C. 1 (5th Supp.),

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Those two pieces of legislation had already begun to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by transitioning more base power generation from coal to natural gas (which produces lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, although not emission-free) and greatly increased development of solar and wind generation facilities.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Pursuant to that authority, EPA created the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which requires covered entities in 41 different source categories, including fuel and industrial gas suppliers, iron and steel manufacturers, and other large industrial facilities to report annually on their GHG emissions. Liggett Group, Inc. , 504 (1992)).

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 18, 2016

This is Part II of our TSCA update following the recent changes to the TSCA legislation. 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). On June 29, 2016, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Wolf in July after he allowed legislation to become law without his signature that prohibited DEP from increasing conventional oil and gas well plugging bond rates for ten years that would have helped deter new well abandonments. Why The Assessment? DEP’s assessment was promised by Gov.

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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. It does so by supporting training programs in both institutions – such as technical colleges, nonprofits, and worker training centers – and small and very small plants. DBA Windham Butcher Shop), based in Windham, Maine. “We

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Ohio Environmental Law

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Under the amended legislation, only certain types of projects would quality: Transformational- Will have a transformational economic impact on the development site and the surrounding area. The tax credit will help developers raise upfront money to help fund their project.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The leases divided the acreage into “dry” lease and “irrigated” lease categories, stating that “water supplies to all land classified for leased irrigation (alfalfa and pasture) will be delivered in an amount not to exceed five (5) acre-feet per acre per irrigation season.” Under these circumstances, extra-record evidence is appropriate.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

The 2019 legislative session got off to a very slow start. The general permits set operating conditions for different categories of farms to protect surface water and groundwater from contamination by animal waste. July 9, 2019. Governor Cooper immediately vetoed the budget bill for reasons unrelated to environmental provisions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Both prime sponsors of the legislation making the designation came from Lycoming County as a result-- Sen. It's just simply a category into which they put species that are at risk,” said Dr. Petokas. “So Read more here. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and former Rep. Garth Everett (R-Lycoming).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Similar to equivalent data protection legislation, the VCDPA imposes more obligations on the companies who control the data that those who service those companies. Indeed, Washington and New York states have developed their own proposed legislation along the same lines. Different Requirements Based on Who Has the Control Over the Data.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The Moore plaintiffs sought original condition restoration under the second category, alleging that Denbury had operated unreasonably and excessively. Land and Exploration Co., 3d 1038 (La.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

1 will make are one of four broad spending categories authorized by the act. Coastal Louisiana is no stranger to severe weather, with Category 4 hurricanes Laura and Ida hitting the state in the last two years. Water infrastructure improvements like the ones that Iberia Parish Sewerage District No.

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