PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In fact, the plan’s few mentions of carbon pollution couch its goal as the undefined and problematic “low-carbon economic growth.” The Plan Doesn’t ‘Move at the Speed of Climate Change’ Notably, this plan does not provide a roadmap to reach the administration's own climate goals of 30% renewables by 2030 (30x30) and net zero by 2050.

Fossil Fuels 68

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Natural Gas Climate Change 68

CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

Likewise, the Court derided the Counties’ argument that term “normal operation” of the dam as used in the EIR was undefined and could cause future controversy, noting again that the Counties had failed to elaborate on the argument or support it with legal authority.

Climate Change 88

Climate Change 2008 2017 Law 88

CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 26, 2021

a) and its key 2011 amendments showed that the Legislature sought to address and eliminate the ambiguity in the undefined statutory phrase “any recipient of an approval” in order to clarify the persons who must be named as real parties in interest in CEQA actions.

2011 78

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A phaseout of “unabated” fossil fuels shifts the target away from the fuels themselves toward some undefined subset that are “unabated” (with plenty of slop over what “abated” actually means). A “phasedown” is intentionally ambiguous about how far it goes.

Fossil Fuels 147

Fossil Fuels Ozone Cooling Greenhouse 147

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The term “disadvantaged communities” is undefined for the purposes of the IRA’s GGRF provisions (it is very vaguely defined in an IRA section about Department of Energy rebate programs). Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities. USEPA will therefore have to set a definition and/or screening criteria.

Air Pollution 58

Air Pollution Government Greenhouse Renewable Energy 58

CEQA Developments

APRIL 11, 2023

Here, the measure’s “performance standard” employed vague, subjective and undefined terms, and failed to fully identify the types of potential actions that could feasibly achieve it. While mitigation measures need not include “precise quantitative performance standards” (citing Sierra Club, supra, 6 Cal.5th

2018 86

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Law and Environment

JUNE 24, 2022

EPA to revive the non-delegation doctrine , I wonder what it will think of ESA provisions that refer to an undefined word – “habitat” – when the agencies themselves concede that they cannot come up with a workable definition of the term. However, if the Supreme Court uses its imminent decision in West Virginia v.

Endangered Species Act 130

Endangered Species Act Regulations 2020 Atmosphere 130

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Licensed professionals named in the bill include land surveyors, landscape architects, geologists, a professional engineer as well as “other licensed professional” (an undefined term). The bill would also bypass permit reviews for these projects by qualified state agencies allowing state “licensed professionals” to do the reviews.

Regulations 117

Regulations Law Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 117

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

But tailored responses are but expressions of fundamental stances on the relations between humans and nature, and such fundamental stances should not remain undefined and ambiguous. Such principles are not sufficient and cannot compensate for the lack of specifically tailored responses.

Law 52

Law Politics 2015 Sustainable Development 52

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

Licensed professionals named in the bill could include land surveyors, landscape architects, geologists, a professional engineer as well as “other licensed professional” (an undefined term). The review process is essentially the same as with the large-scale projects.

Regulations 115

Regulations Law Environmental Protection Waste 115

Acoel

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last week EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers published their most recent proposed definition of “Waters of the United States” , an undefined term in the federal Clean Water Act, with an eye toward making that definition final in time for the Act’s 50th anniversary next year. Posted on November 23, 2021 by Jeff Porter.

Clean Water Act 52

Clean Water Act 2006 Law Regulations 52