Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2023 Symposium: We're Bringing Nature Back (Nov. 18th) By VJEL November 13, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is pleased to announce its upcoming symposium, “We’re Bringing Nature Back,” on November 18, 2023, from 9 a.m. Mary Christina Wood is the Philip H.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 8, 2021

When I was in high school, I thought the only way to work on the ocean was to become a marine biologist. Our ocean is complex, and it takes a complex array of skills to protect it. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Andy Sullivanhaskins / Hawaii Department of Lands and Natural Resources.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

On December 3, 2021, the Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register of a settlement between Federal and State Trustees and Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve natural resource damages from a 2014 oil release. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9 In November 2021, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Oil began seeping into the ocean on Friday night. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The BP Deepwater Horizon experience taught us that when toxic oil is released at the bottom of the ocean, as happened here, it can impact the entire ocean ecosystem, from seafloor habitats to coastal wetlands.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 27, 2023

Nature crimes threaten our collective security. They undermine the rule of law, fuel corruption, destroy ecosystems, and drive species to the brink of extinction, all the while providing billions of dollars to transnational criminal syndicates that prey upon the world’s most vulnerable populations. Jennifer R.

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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). In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1]

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2023

Supreme Court narrowed Clean Water Act protections for wetlands that aren’t directly connected to “lakes, oceans, streams, and rivers.” “The The Supreme Court ripped the heart out of the law we depend on to protect American waters and wetlands.” — Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

That approval came a day after the administration said it would bar drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. Partly, this decision illustrates the limits of our environmental laws. The goal of those laws is substantive: to protect the environment. And there will certainly be more litigation.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Wind Week followed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)’s first Gulf of Mexico Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting, which was held on June 15. Panelists includes representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In a world where urbanization, forestry, agriculture, fisheries, transportation, water and energy infrastructure, and other human impacts have degraded and continue to alter natural ecosystems, climate change is causing rapid and often hard to predict impacts on species dynamics and distribution. Photo: National Park Service.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Wind Week followed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)’s first Gulf of Mexico Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting, which was held on June 15. Panelists includes representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A pipeline failure on California’s coast leaked more than 100,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean and a protected wetland. A pipeline failure caused at least 126,000 gallons of oil to spill into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Orange County, California over the weekend. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

In response to multiple requests from stakeholders and interested parties during the third Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting , the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management agreed to extend the public comment periods for the two potential wind energy areas (WEAs) and the draft Environmental Assessment (EA).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

million in restoration funds to support a comprehensive conservation and management plan for the program as part of the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding to estuaries of national significance. An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal water body where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the ocean.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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ESA

MAY 31, 2023

Congress House Natural Resources Committee passes Save Our Sequoias Act and legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. EPA creates a far narrower test than what has been used for more than half a century to determine when bogs and marshes fall under the scope of the 1972 law. Read more: U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 24, 2023

On May 17, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed plaintiffs’ challenges to the Vineyard Wind Project—the United States’s first major offshore wind project. If the court were to vacate the agency approvals, the United States’s first major offshore wind project could suffer serious delays.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 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.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) is slated to make further revisions to its decommissioning regulations, following other decommissioning amendments made last year as previously reported on The Energy Law Blog. BSEE’s 2024 decommissioning rule would update 30 C.F.R. 250.1403; NTL No. 2023-N02 (March 24, 2023).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Raimondo , a case involving federal regulation of commercial ocean fishing practices, the fishing industry has asked the justices to repudiate their venerable 1984 decision in Chevron v. Which brings us to a quick review of applicable regulatory takings law. For example, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Constitution.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

Space is infinite, but earth’s orbits are a finite natural resource that must be managed properly. [1]. The existing space law regime is not sufficient to address the growing issues presented by the increasing creation of orbital debris. [8]. We cannot wait decades to act like we did with earth’s oceans. [22].

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 4, 2023

What started in 2020 as a proposed joint rulemaking between the DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) was recently finalized as a stand-alone BSEE rule addressing decommissioning. The new regulations take effect on May 18, 2023.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Under Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), FERC is responsible for authorizing the siting and construction of onshore and near-shore LNG import or export facilities. [3] 1451 et seq.). [3] 3] 15 U.S.C. 717b(a), (e). [4] 4] Shell U.S. RP15-259-000. [5]

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this issue: Congressional Leadership Releases Committee Rosters House Science Committee, House Natural Resources and other committees fill out leadership rosters and add freshmen members for the 118th Congress. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) announced the committee leadership.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Harrisburg area teachers and students will engage in hands-on learning around local environmental issues and solutions, and the unique nature of their communities thanks to a grant from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Student Headed To U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

maritime law experienced two significant changes on December 23, 2022—one pertaining to liability for oil pollution, the other concerning small passenger vessels. Those limits were last increased in 2018 to $137,659,500 by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. [12] The Law of Admiralty 919 (2d ed. 438, 446 (2001). [14]

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Department of Interior (“Interior”) issued an order, effective immediately, mandating a 60-day moratorium on new oil and gas leases and drilling permits on public lands and waters (“Order”).

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held its long-anticipated offshore wind lease sale for the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) on Tuesday, August 29, 2023. GOM Lease Sale: The U.S. If you have questions about the wind lease process, contact Liskow’s offshore wind energy team.

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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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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

676 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. Legislative Updates House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. 1496 ) from Rep.

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Acoel

JANUARY 12, 2022

ocean areas by 2030. When it comes to water resources, tensions run even higher. The hallmarks of water law include settled expectations of water users, states’ rights, and extremely high institutional fragmentation, along with fierce territorialism. lands and water and 30 percent of U.S.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot called Measure W a “ world-leading policy,” that can also help reduce pollution flowing into oceans and bays. has more resources than almost any other place in the country to harness rainfall to recharge groundwater basins for future use. As a result of Measure W, L.A.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 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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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In furtherance of the strategies and actions listed in the Plan, Louisiana is working with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to take the necessary steps to hold a lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico for wind energy development. An important next step in wind energy leasing was announced earlier this year.

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