Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2001, the United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity affirmed that “cultural rights are an integral part of human rights, which are universal, indivisible, and interdependent….”

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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. After significant changes, the SPVA was signed into law on December 23, 2022, as part of the nearly 2000-page James M. 438, 446 (2001). [14] 14] 46 U.S.C.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Starting as a staff attorney at the Commission in 2001, she spent several years practicing administrative regulatory law. Prior to her career at the Commission, Barrow spent time working as a Law Clerk for the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board in Harrisburg.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 12, DEP, DCNR and many guests dedicated the Law Library Conference Room in the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to Franklin Kury, the legislative author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment to the state Constitution. constitutional amendment on environmental rights. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Their main arguments include two disturbing tactics that come straight out of the disinformation playbook : casting doubt on the science, and pressing the EPA to violate a law passed by Congress. This part of the law, requiring the government to consider only science-based evidence that can protect public health, has been upheld for years.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 1, 2023

The Stillaguamish restoration sites are part of a $24 million project package funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that will move 23 projects forward across the whole of the Whidbey Basin, which includes the Skagit, Stillaguamish, and Snohomish Rivers.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Since 2001, it has paid farmers to pump groundwater approximately two out of every three years.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

This goes all the back to the California Energy Crisis of 2000-2001. Newsom’s oil law and these separate calls for more transparency around natural gas prices? I’d argue that FERC could also use its authority under the Natural Gas Index to create a public index if it finds that there are problems with the current set-up.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Mandara Spa (Hawaii), LLC , the appellant seaman brought claims under the Jones Act and general maritime law for failure to pay maintenance and cure related to certain bodily injuries. Atkinson , 369 U.S. 527 (1962) requires courts hearing maintenance and cure cases to construe disputed medical evidence in the seaman’s favor. In Witbart v.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

Wells Environmental Clinic at UCLA School of Law is representing Los Angeles Waterkeeper on matters related to the subject of this post. The Superior Court sided with the boards and upheld the 2012 permit, and NRDC and LAW appealed. Los Angeles River (Credit: Thomas Hawk on Flickr). Disclosure: The Frank G.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

In 2001, Maryland was one of the first states to incentivize green building, to reduce GHG emissions, with an income tax credit. Live webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?” The Maryland Department of Labor is expected to publish the Notice of Proposed Action on January 13, 2023. The backstory is important.

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Law of the Lands

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

According to Section 26 of the Municipal Act, 2001 , all highways that existed on December 31, 2002 continue to be recognized as public highways unless they have been closed. After January 1, 2003, however, all highways must be established by by-law of a municipality. Some roads that were established by by-law have disappeared.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To comply with the law, mining companies worked to revegetate and reforest the land, but many merely met the letter of the law, meeting the requirements for bond release by planting less than desirable trees and heavy grasses rather than properly revegetating and reforesting the sites.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

One formulation that has been suggested is, “What are the obligations under international law of a State for ensuring that activities under its jurisdiction or control that emit greenhouse gases do not cause, or substantially contribute to, serious damage to another State or State?” Once the opinion is issued, what impact would it have?

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Energy & the Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

Lessees Gramwich et al sued in 2001 alleging that lessor Meng engaged in “actions that were bizarre and numerous” that interfered with operations under a 1996 oil and gas lease on 2,000 acres in Throckmorton County. The facts are dense and the savings clause at issue is sui generis, so I won’t go into lots of detail.

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Acoel

AUGUST 4, 2021

CERCLA did not specifically provide for ICs and state laws were often not sufficient to make ICs enforceable. In 2001, the Colorado legislature took these issues head on. From the regulator’s perspective, the law has certainly been successful to date. You can see why I never became a standup comic). How have things gone?

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NAEP Leadership Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Beyond the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), lobbyists in Washington DC were creating considerable pressure to enact many other environmental protection laws. This nation’s environmental movement that began in the early 1960’s had gained considerable momentum by the end of that decade.

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Ohio Environmental Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

Many heralded the Clean Ohio brownfield grant program, which operated from approximately 2001 to 2012, as the “golden age” of brownfield cleanup and redevelopment in Ohio. Of the $341 million in grant funds provided $19.2 million were assessment grant dollars (6% of the total allocation) and $321.9

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule. However, a recent study by the Environmental Law Institute demonstrates that most States have not adopted any regulations to protect waterways beyond the protections afforded under the CWA.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule. However, a recent study by the Environmental Law Institute demonstrates that most States have not adopted any regulations to protect waterways beyond the protections afforded under the CWA.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2001 et seq. , Those allegations form the basis of alleged violations of Chapter 4 of the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act: the Louisiana Water Control Law, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2071 et seq.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even with its Director, Kenneth Blanco, departing this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been active in taking steps to implement the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act), which was enacted into law on January 1, 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA).

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CEQA Developments

MAY 27, 2022

Crystal Geyser bought a water bottling facility that had operated from 2001 to 2010 in Siskiyou County and sought to revive it. a)(2)) emissions estimate, although it, too, lacks the kind of robust legal reasoning and case law analysis one would expect to see in a published CEQA opinion. Background. Conclusion and Implications.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Court’s majority acknowledged such actions would contravene FERC’s “sole jurisdiction” over licensing process disputes and be preempted under longstanding federal law. (18 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).). North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This dangerous Bill has been forced into law through a process designed to prevent meaningful consideration of its impacts, discussion with those affected, or on a time frame that reflects the enormity of the changes. SCHEDULE 4: MUNICIPAL ACT, 2001. We will all need to work together to see this legislation repealed. .

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Physics World

MAY 27, 2021

In 2001 in New York, for instance, 6-year-old Michael Colombini died after being hit in the head with an oxygen tank. The magnetic field produced by the gradient coils in the MR scanner can induce an electric field in the patient’s body due to Faraday’s Law of Induction. (Courtesy: of Frank Shellock, MRISafety.com).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHEDULE 4: MUNICIPAL ACT, 2001. This law would exempt the project from many features of an Environmental Assessment, and even from the Environmental Bill of Rights. It would do this by requiring municipalities to spend or allocate 60 per cent of reserve funds each year. Opening the Door to Displacement of Lower-Income Tenants.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2001, a group of Mecosta County residents sued to stop Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, from depleting a spring to fill its Ice Mountain water bottles. In law and practice Michigan succeeded in sharing the burden of collecting data needed to make groundwater withdrawal decisions between the state and high-capacity well developers.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Department of Justice and as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Law & Policy in the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives during the George W. Prior to his public service he practiced labor and employment law at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Prior to that position, Mr. Ho served as a law clerk to U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2001 et seq. , Those allegations form the basis of alleged violations of Chapter 4 of the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act: the Louisiana Water Control Law, Louisiana Revised Statute §§ 30:2071 et seq.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2001, East Kalimantan had 126,000 sq km of primary forest. In addition, the mining law, which was revised in 2020, ensured that seven giant coal miners with coal contracts of work (known as PKP2B) due to expire between 2020 and 2025 will have an opportunity to extend their contracts. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2018

It happened in a remote area, a frontier-area with many socio-environmental conflicts where law enforcement is challenging. Shortly after this judgment, Ecuador enacted a new law granting full legal standing to Nature. The same law provides for Nature’s representation at trial by any person or the. SUI GENERIS. Ombudsman. .

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Montrose

JANUARY 9, 2023

Frontier, formed in 2001, is comprised of a group of elite chemists/analysts who offer more than 80 years of combined experience in providing mass spectrometry identification and quantification of trace level organic pollutants from a wide array of matrices. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. Since COP 7 in 2001, gender. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Amy Pickering. Women disproportionately experience the. harmful effects. of climate change.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The European Green Deal and the proposed European Climate Law reinforce the EU’s goal to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050, meaning that the EU will emit no more greenhouse gases than it removes from the air (for example through reforestation). However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. with average emissions eight times greater than the average rate of the other refineries on the Top 10 list.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. with average emissions eight times greater than the average rate of the other refineries on the Top 10 list.

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