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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

Last week, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an initiative measure that would have imposed severe restrictions on oil and gas development in Monterey County is preempted by state law and therefore invalid. But the good news is that this goal can still be achieved through other legal and political strategies.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

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Where Is The Water Going?

Circle of Blue

From 2002 to 2017, the most recent USDA farm census, the number of farms in Kings County declined 16.6%. And the company maintains positions on just about every ag and water related board and commission in Kings, giving it considerable political heft. . The data show that’s already happening. But the size of farms increased 14.5%

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Book review: The Age of Resilience, by Jeremy Rifkin

A Greener Life

See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. Prizing efficiency above all else, it has been locked in through the economics profession and political systems. It never accounted for entropy and the laws of thermodynamics. Rifkin wrote a book about that in 1995. He’s also influential.

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Green Building may be our Best Hope to Repair the Planet

Greenbuilding Law

That substantive list is substantially the same as the original version of TRACI released by EPA in August 2002. The TRACI compilation of environmental effects was the basis of the US Green Building Council’s LEED green building rating program.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D.

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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law Blog

An entity classified as an “arm of the state” would be entitled to sovereign immunity provided by the Eleventh Amendment; in contrast, a “political subdivision” is not afforded the same protection. The burden of proof falls on the entity seeking immunity and SRA-L failed to meet its burden. Hawkins , 381 F.3d 3d 407, 411-12 (5th Cir.

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