E2 Law Blog

JUNE 13, 2022

offices from the Environmental Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP are recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2022 Guide. Eid as a “Leading Lawyer” for Industry Focus > Native American Law. Industry Focus > Native American Law. Industry Focus > Native American Law; Leading Lawyer.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Aside from the environmental implications of eliminating water quality monitoring for nutrients released from aquaculture operations, the provision raises another legal question and policy question: Does the provision violate the N.C. This session, the legislature amended the animal waste system permitting law, G.S. Under the N.C.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” Do State Nuisance Claims Related to Climate Change Arise Under Federal Law? the district court found that the Plaintiffs’ claims supported federal question jurisdiction because those state-law claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.”

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Thus, the award was given in order to communicate to BBP that it did not have the unrestrained ability to take property without due process of law. Instead, the Third Circuit on its own created a new category of damages for due process violations. Trans-Pecos Pipeline, L.L.C. 1] Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Maintaining that the plaintiff qualified as a seaman under controlling Fifth Circuit precedent but questioning that precedent in light of Supreme Court case law, the panel urged the Fifth Circuit to review the case en banc. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Clearly, there is significant non-compliance with relevant laws in the conventional oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania. The bad news is that the resources and enforcement tools and techniques available to the Department have not made an appreciable dent in compliance rates and numbers over the past five years.” Why The Assessment?

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Finding that the judgment did not fall within any of the categories of immediately appealable judgments under article 1915(A), the trial court had to have designated the judgment as final after an express determination that there was no reason for just delay pursuant to article 1915(B).

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The Blog/Web Site should not be used as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state regarding a particular matter.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Perhaps most importantly, on de novo review, [1] the Fifth Circuit dismissed plaintiffs’ alternative argument that the fourth category of contra non valentem (plaintiffs did not have actual or constructive knowledge of the cause of action), applied to suspend prescription. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. New York law required that the Attorney General prove that ExxonMobil made a misrepresentation of material facts that a reasonable investor would consider in deciding how to act. People by James v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , Juliana v.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 9, 2022

The project at issue is a multifamily development on a vacant parcel of land in the City of Santa Cruz, a portion of which has slopes in the 15+ and 30+ percent categories. The Court further held the related mitigation measures were legally adequate, and that they could properly be included in the initial study as well.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

The Legal Effect of Oil and Gas Leases Oil and gas leases issued by BLM grant the lessee “the exclusive right to drill for, mine, extract, remove and dispose of all the oil and gas. The company has a legal right to those leases. BLM’s] options are limited when there are legal contracts in place.” in the land.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Tioga County; -- Frontier Natural Resources: Winner Well Pad, Keating Twp., Potter County; -- Seneca Resources Co. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 billion in nonperformance penalties on natural gas-fired and other electric generators in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

Heirs Property and Fractionated Land Legal Clinics (Section 7502). Requires an annual report describing the amount of funding obligated with respect to each category of practice by state and the amount obligated under the program in each state, categorized by the size of operation. Underserved Producers Report (Sec. 11207, 11601).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Previously, I taught law school, practiced solo, worked in the Appellate Section of the Justice Department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division – and way back, I, like you, had the great honor of clerking for Justice Stevens. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. In Texas v.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MAY 8, 2020

The NWPR covers four categories of waters: The territorial seas and traditional navigable waters (i.e., Does Ohio law protect wetlands and waters that are not federally protected? Ohio law also protects categories of waters that are not protected under the NWPR. What waters are federally protected under the NWPR?

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. An ongoing Supreme Court case (Sackett vs. EPA) has the potential to shape the scope of this law. Gardner, JD – Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, Stetson University College of Law.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2022

420 Million : Second round of funding announced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service for watershed restoration, flood prevention, and dam repairs. Environmental groups, meanwhile, told E&E News that they plan to continue legal challenges to the Trump rules, in pursuit of a few restoration of the 1978 guidelines.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J. September 15, 2022 .

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee leaders introduce legislation to reauthorize the Department of Energy Office of Science. Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approves new PFAS standards. Natural Resources : The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a group of bills of interest at Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Council meeting. 6 At Dorothy Rider Pool Wildlife Sanctuary -- Reading Eagle: PA’s Game & Fish Threatened By Invasive Species, Disease And Habitat Loss New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law -- Bloomberg: Sen. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 25, 2021

117-2) into law in March 2021. 99- 272), signed into law April 7, 1986 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-509), signed into law October 21, 1986.]] Instead, the House and Senate passed the FY 2021 budget resolution (S. N:Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (P.L.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS. “In 2225 ) this past summer. 5345 ), sponsored by Rep.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

The cornerstone of the Energy Division arises from provisions incorporated in the Energy Infrastructure Act, which advanced 13-7 out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee on July 14.[[N: This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

For the time being, no regulation is on the books, and extended delay might prompt legal action from environmentalists. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law. Greg Abbott signed into law – The Texas Tribune. 140 ) from Sens.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Conservation: The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. Lawmakers voted down amendments from Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) that would have designated funding sources for the bill. This bill provides a combined $1.4 Bill sponsor Rep.

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