CEQA Developments

APRIL 21, 2021

Falling more into the category of “spring cleaning” than “breaking news,” readers should note that a Second District decision, published last spring and covered in this blog, was ordered depublished by the California Supreme Court late last summer. 5th 588; my April 21, 2020 post on the case can be found here. Questions?

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Eid was recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” for Industry Focus > Native American Law; and Erick Hernández Gallego was recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” for Latin America – Mexico: Environment and Latin America – Mexico: Energy and Natural Resources. Eid Industry Focus > Native American Law; Leading Lawyer Denver David C.

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

The Chambers USA 2023 Guide recognized the Environmental Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP on its nationwide list of the top 32 environment practices in the country. Attorney Market USA Guide Practice Area Giuliano Apadula Pennsylvania Environment – Up and Coming Kerri L. Barsh Florida Environment Christopher L.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: ‘Selling Oil And Natural Gas To China?’ ‘It Louie Krak, DEP’s Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator, told DEP’s Environmental Justice Advisory Board on February 21-- “DEP plans to submit a $500 million implementation grant application” under the federal Priority Climate Action Plan program.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2022

So on the on a basic sense, areas that are in drought are normally going to have a deficit in precipitation over some period of time, that’s going to have an impact on people, the environment, the economy, and that can, but you you’re also looking at multiple parts of the hydrological cycle as you’re mentioned.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Plastic foam can be found almost anywhere you look in our environment. 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.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2023

One particular animal that’s been in the news is coral; coral reefs throughout the northern hemisphere are bleaching at alarming rates and causing great alarm among scientists. The first step is understanding the biology of the animals and then assessing how the animals interact with their environments. Let’s break it down.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

This news is not particularly surprising. The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

Exhibitors cover virtually every product category, including field machinery, milking systems, animal genetics, storage structures, seed, feed, tools, trailers, sprayers, mixers, livestock housing, utility vehicles, fertilizers, fencing, financial products, insurance and more. Reprinted from Penn State News.)

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Acoel

MAY 28, 2021

So much so, that I have over the past year gone in and out of banning myself from news media and social media. As we delve into these issues, knowing that we all care about protection of the environment, my question to you is, “Who is going to pay for remediation to part per trillion concentrations?”.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

By Jason Lenker, Intern, PA Parks & Forests Foundation In 2011, the Audubon Society paired with the Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Landscape to aid counties along the Kittatinny Ridge (Berks, Carbon, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lebanon, Lehigh Valley, and Perry) in completing Return on Environment (ROE) reports. What is ROE?

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Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

That’s why news reports in recent months warning of an “ insect apocalypse ” sparked widespread alarm. In my world, reports of mass insect die-offs are big news. Put another way, there is no perfect environment for all insects. Categories. Environment. It’s hard to imagine a world without insects. The Conversation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

They’re called Scope 3 emissions, and they are key to understanding the big picture of a company’s impact on the environment. The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products. It’s a picture investors are currently missing.

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Science Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2017

News outlets are referring to a report released yesterday by The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. Their definition of pollution comes from the European Union: "unwanted, often dangerous, material that is introduced into the Earth’s environment as the result of human activity, that threatens human health, and that harms ecosystems.".

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

New Creek Surveys Find Bad News Recently, Dr. Petokas decided to go back to the Loyalsock Creek and resurvey the creek to see what the population of Eastern Hellbenders is today. It's just simply a category into which they put species that are at risk,” said Dr. Petokas. “So Petokas in the Loyalsock Creek Watershed in 2005.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Completely, siloing knowledge into closed, hyper-specialized categories often means that disciplines end up communicating poorly to each other. The post Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action first appeared on Science & research news | Frontiers.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Improperly plugged wells have been tied to fatal explosions in Pennsylvania and other states, so this is a category of potentially significant violations.” “The Clearly, there is significant non-compliance with relevant laws in the conventional oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Although he was a land-based welder, he remained exposed to the perils of a maritime work environment while aboard the drilling rigs. An en banc decision could affirm the Fifth Circuit’s historical construction of the Jones Act, preserving seaman status to a wider category of maritime workers. 3d at 555.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Although he was a land-based welder, he remained exposed to the perils of a maritime work environment while aboard the drilling rigs. An en banc decision could affirm the Fifth Circuit’s historical construction of the Jones Act, preserving seaman status to a wider category of maritime workers. 3d at 555.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself. More water news and analysis await you at circleofblue.org. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That’s great news because swapping gasoline and diesel vehicles for EVs is an essential strategy to reduce local air pollution and climate change emissions from transportation. The good news is that getting up to speed to merge onto the highway in your EV will be a breeze, even while towing. Will I have to charge more in cold weather?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

As the nation prepares to pour hundreds of billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, the Great Lakes News Collaborative investigates the true cost of water in Michigan. . Once the points from these and other categories are added up, projects with higher scores get funded. This is part nine of a ten-part series.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

News - Best Lawyers has named Arnold & Porter as a "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Litigation - Environmental" category. The firm also received 43 national rankings and 102 metropolitan rankings (Chicago, DC, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) in the "Best Law Firms" report. The 2022 edition of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

The good news is that the Bay is remarkably resilient and there is tremendous energy around the table. With many new leaders taking charge – EPA administrators, governors, legislators, and within environmental organizations – we have an opportunity to prove that restoring clean water is possible.

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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. Lawsuits against government: The Children’s Climate Change Lawsuits: A third category of climate change lawsuits involves the public trust doctrine. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There was high-profile coverage in all major news outlets, including new special sections reflecting the prominence of climate change in the NY Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and others. But they are serious steps, in a highly constrained legal/political environment, toward faster progress in stopping climate change.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Generic methodologies applicable to multiple land-use categories. Science of The Total Environment 685 , 1181–1192 (2019). Nature News 525 , 179 (2015). Reuters (2021). Bradford, M. Oldfield, E. & Wood, S. Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought. 16 , 044018 (2021).

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2022

GB: And we live in a very peculiar time when, whether you’re in Singapore, in London, in Japan, or in California, your environment kind of looks all the same. And if you have been following the news, the baby bust from the pandemic is so severe that it will massively reduce fertility, already has.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. The Wisconsin Legislature allows new PFAS standards to take effect. Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative. In the News. June 28, 2022. Michigan Radio.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Read more here ] “Upon the conclusion of the grand jury’s two-year investigation in 2020, several legislative recommendations were made that would strengthen protections for the environment and the citizens of our Commonwealth. Note: In April, an Inside Climate News article quoted a spokesperson for now Gov. Read more here. ]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

-- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 48 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults [PaEN] -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week [PaEN] -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: In PA, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Read more here and as reported by Marcellus Drilling News. Read more here and as reported by Marcellus Drilling News. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. billion in nonperformance penalties on natural gas-fired and other electric generators in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Inside Climate News: With Fossil Fuel Companies Facing Pressure To Reduce Carbon Emissions, Private Equity Is Buying Up Their Aging Oil, Natural Gas And Coal Assets PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Meadville Tribune: Defense Requests Jan. To Host Nov. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The effect on the global environment is similar.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Read more here and as reported by Marcellus Drilling News. Read more here and as reported by Marcellus Drilling News. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. billion in nonperformance penalties on natural gas-fired and other electric generators in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The authors reported quality of life impacts in five categories – psychological stress, social stress, environment, physical health, and traffic. Steele, Executive Director [PaEN] [Posted: August 6, 2022] PA Environment Digest . -- A qualitative study, conducted by Fisher et al.

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