Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing. It also prohibits a producer or retailer from offering rebates or gifts in exchange for purchasing fossil fuel products.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address, in which she endorsed a suite of progressive environmental policies including product stewardship laws governing the paper and packaging industry, the New York Legislature has introduced a bill targeting environmental sustainability disclosures in the fashion and apparel industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to the National Retail Federation , around 20 percent of shopping occurs during November and December. The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey. on routes between 250 and 450 miles.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. The law limits offsets to 5%. served at least 150,000 North Carolina retail jurisdictional customers as of January 1, 2021. The Reduction Goal.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

Restructuring generally addresses one of two parts of the electricity industry: generation and retail. Retail restructuring focuses on giving end-user consumers choices as to whom they purchase electricity from. Generation restructuring focuses on creating competition in the generation of electricity.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

These upsetting incidents highlight the disproportionate impact of toxic exposures on vulnerable and marginalized communities and the dire need for increased disclosure and transparency in our toxics laws. . Retailers don’t ensure product safety. Government doesn’t test products for known hazards before they go on shelves

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The US government is also committed to bolstering domestic recycling. Governments and industry can leverage these five tactics to move energy storage batteries towards a more circular end-of-life stewardship. Lithium-ion batteries from consumer electronics head to the shredder in a recycling facility. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

Title 42 of the United State Code deals with topics from environmental protection to civil rights and includes laws that require the federal government to analyze and mitigate the impact of its actions. seven times in the past 10 years. A second and equally egregious failure of the EIS was simply in its study design.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2023

According to the Center for Environmental Health, some of the clothing items they tested contained BPA levels up to 40 times what California law considers “safe”. By declaring the whole class toxic, the federal government would gain the authority to restrict the use of PFAS chemicals in various applications.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__ 5th__ (“ SLD” ).)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2021

On December 16, DEP’s Solid Waste Advisory and Recycling Fund Advisory Committees are scheduled to meet and on the agenda are presentations by DEP on its recommendations for changing the law to make Act 101 Recycling Programs more effective and fixing the very broken Electronics Waste Recycling Program.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, stations often sit on corner lots at major intersections, making them prime retail spots. Those sites may be governed by state and federal hazardous waste laws. Redeveloping gas stations for other uses may cause another problem, however.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. Below is a short summary of the key features of these amendments.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company also owns one of the world’s largest clusters of ‘cloud’ computer networks (Amazon Web Services) that millions of individuals, businesses and government agencies use to host their data, including the Central Intelligence Agency. USA: Google And Amazon Workers Protest Their Companies’ $1.2

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Amazon Fined in France for Illegally Spying on Workers Common Dreams PaulaR Wed, 01/31/2024 - 13:59 Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Read more Julia Conley The retail giant was also ordered to pay more than $30 million last year after allegedly surveilling customers with its tech products.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2023

For cashiers (across all retail), it’s 23 percent. The federal government should hold companies like Tyson accountable, while continuing to provide the lifeline of SNAP. Some government programs that promote local and regional systems report that for each dollar invested, more than $2.6 7 goes to the local community.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

Dwindling water supplies have led to a substantial increase in the retail cost of water over the last decade. Climate change is intensifying California’s hydrologic variability and exacerbating the state’s water supply challenges. And as a result, agencies would be afforded greater flexibility to set rates that advance these objectives.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 23, 2023

Simply named ‘Close the Shop Door’ the campaign is asking that the UK government introduce legislation that insists on shop front doors being kept shut to avoid wasting millions of £ worth of energy and causing unnecessary CO2 emissions. To achieve this they have launched a government petition. billion annually.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” Federal Rule 4(k)(2) provides that “[f]or a claim that arises under federal law, serving a summons or filing a waiver of service establishes personal jurisdiction over a defendant if [] the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of general jurisdiction,” among other conditions.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” Federal Rule 4(k)(2) provides that “[f]or a claim that arises under federal law, serving a summons or filing a waiver of service establishes personal jurisdiction over a defendant if [] the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of general jurisdiction,” among other conditions.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 17, 2023

(It’s no April fool’s day prank) Our lobby bot marked oil and gas industry lobbyists had over 90 meetings with government officials in April. Now that outright climate change denial is no longer popular with the public, CAPP has switched up their top tactic to urging governments to dilute and delay climate action.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In response to new building energy performance standards and other laws requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, tenants are beginning to monetize their GHG emission data, including their utility data. and an absence of well established jurisprudence or new laws, anywhere) about who owns that GHG emission data.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Officials in many areas are preparing “for the worst-case scenarios” and asking the federal government for relief aid. The class-action lawsuit represented more than 9,000 restaurants, law firms, and retail stores that were forced to shut down because of the outages. inches) of rain in 12 hours. 20 PERCENT. ON THE RADAR.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And while each brief focuses on the domain of the agency or group submitting it (and the law professors’ brief discusses state and local authority under the U.S As described in the Local Government Brief, the police power is retained by the states under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Local Government Brief 9).

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

After AB 525 was signed into law, the CEC set offshore wind state planning goals in 2022 (2 to 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045). This would give tribal governments a fuller voice in development processes that affect tribal communities and resources. An important next step for California would be to do so.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

EIA: Retail Electricity Prices Continue Rapid Rise Driven By Rising Natural Gas Prices -- DEP Public Notices: Oil & Gas Industry Facilities Sept. EIA: Retail Electricity Prices Continue Rapid Rise Driven By Rising Natural Gas Prices -- DEP Public Notices: Oil & Gas Industry Facilities Sept. 16 - 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. -- Sept.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 12, 2023

Where in recent years climate change has sucked the air out of the room overtaking other devastating events that occur due to humanity’s impact on the environment, PFAS is now on the agenda of government, businesses, and consumers alike. It remains to be seen how efficacious government action will be (. This year began with the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2022

And, for better or worse, government policy decisions are typically based at least in part on assessments of cost. KPS: Well, the federal government can start by not using taxpayer dollars to prop up these noxious, polluting facilities. Most corporations do that. What does UCS recommend to address this problem?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

At the other end of the spectrum, a recent poll of “retail” investors—individuals with investments such as mutual funds or stocks—found that 70 percent support the SEC requiring corporate climate-risk disclosure. Between pandemics, wars and political upheaval, we’ve all had enough risk and uncertainty in recent years.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

The campus includes the Health Department Administration Building, County Office Building, Family Law Court Building, and the County Courthouse. Sustainable Pittsburgh believes that businesses, nonprofits, institutions, and local governments have the power to make this region a better place for all. million residents across the state.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

For years, the Legislature prevented local governments from banning plastic bags to protect a bag manufacturer in a key legislative district. And major retailers, including Wegmans, have eliminated plastic bags in favor of paper or reusable bags. The Legislature has approved about $1.7

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Today, the Government of Canada announced that draft regulations prohibiting certain single-use plastics have been published for public comment. It is the Government’s intention to finalize these Regulations and bring the ban into force as quickly as possible and as early as late 2022 after reviewing and considering comments received.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 15, 2021

The Pact brings together a diverse group of nearly 100 members, including cities, state-level agencies, recyclers, haulers, retailers, brands, NGOs and others around the vision of a truly circular economy for plastic packaging in America. Ac t which was signed into law in December 2020. The law requires the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Affordability advocates say these trends are exacerbated by income-blind rate structures which have urban ratepayers buy water at the retail price, while wealthier suburban water suppliers pay the discounted wholesale price—the subject of an ongoing feud between Toledo and its suburbs. They ripple out into the local economy. Keith Schneider.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

natural gas futures have doubled this year, far more than the increases in retail gasoline and diesel that have made Americans angry at the U.S. energy industry and the government.” -- Financial Times: U.S. Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- Erie Times/Reuters: U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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CEQA Developments

MAY 20, 2022

May 9, 2022) is worth a look given its analysis of CEQA’s statute of limitations and its extension by emergency actions of the Judicial Council, as well as its handling of the tricky scenario of what happens when an approving agency is dissolved by operation of law. City of Seaside , H049031 (6th Dist., Background.

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