The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In a much-anticipated decision, the United States Supreme Court held that choice-of-law provisions in marine insurance contracts are presumptively enforceable under federal maritime law with a few narrow exceptions. The policy selected New York law to govern all future disputes arising under the contract. LLC , 601 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Tutman , Waterkeeper, is a grassroots community advocate for clean water in Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway and holds the title of Patuxent Riverkeeper , an organization that he founded in 2004.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The events: 2002 and 2004: Mustafa and Lahijani purchase land on which the Bash #1 well is located. Jamie emerged victorious in 1L year at Baylor Law and is a Gray Reed summer associate. The two-year statute of limitations barred the landowners’ claim. 2002 : Americo acquires the 1937-era oil and gas lease on the land.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Appalachian Voices , Reimagine Appalachia , National Wildlife Federation and Appalachian Citizens' Law Center are hosting an October 24 webinar on Reforesting Mine Lands - How The Forestry Reclamation Approach Works For Coal Communities from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2020, the Supreme Court held a preliminary public hearing for the parties to present facts on deforestation in the Amazon and the results achieved by the PPCDAm between 2004 and 2020. These five cases deal with environmental issues that indirectly have climate implications, while ADPF 760 and ADO 59 directly raise climate claims.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 14, 2024

A 2004 study by Vacca and Pesce Delfino used miniature video cameras to photograph the bones, concluding that the skeleton belonged to an adult male. This was, I want to emphasise, permitted under Australian law. A 2023 paper found a host of flaws in the ways Australian heritage law operates.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

All national forests in the east have of course been Wilderness Act-eligible since the moment President Lyndon Johnson put pen to paper on September 3rd, 1964 and signed the landmark bill into law. Today there are nearly 200 wilderness areas encompassing almost 4.5 Some at the Allegheny have really changed their tune on Tracy Ridge.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

In 1977 President Jimmy Carter nominated Heine as the first Director of the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement after the passage of the first federal law to comprehensively regulate coal mining operations-- the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act-- that same year. Heine Associates, Inc.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B The adopted constitutional law adds an express reference to the protection of the environment and animals, by amending Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. In Neubauer, et al.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

The Report also found that BSEE does not thoroughly account for environmental risks when authorizing decommissioning, does not ensure that operators properly clean and bury pipelines prior to abandonment, and does not monitor the location or condition of pipelines subsequent to abandonment.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Sheetz case arose out of El Dorado County’s 2004 adoption of a new General Plan to govern the county’s land use planning and manage its future growth. Which brings us to a quick review of applicable regulatory takings law. Sheetz paid the fee under protest, claiming its imposition was unconstitutional. Constitution.

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Endangered Species Law

MAY 19, 2022

In 2004, the Service determined that. The DSL is no stranger to controversy. In 2002, CBD and others petitioned the Service to list the DSL due to alleged threats to the species’ habitat caused by oil and gas production.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In September of 2004, attorneys represented 80,000 plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against DuPont which settled for $374 million. Based on these results, 3,500 residents that did not settle in the 2004 class action suit have brought individual liability lawsuits against DuPont for health problems linked to C8. million Americans.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 16, 2009

Relying on its 2004 decision in Santa Fe Snyder Corp. 2004), the court held that Section 304 of the RRA unambiguously entitled Kerr-McGee to unconditional royalty relief on minimum volumes of production. Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp. Dep’t of Interior , __ F.3d 3d __, 2009 WL 57883 (5th Cir. Norton , 385 F.3d 3d 884 (5th Cir.

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Physics World

MAY 5, 2021

So asks Will Smith’s Detective Del Spooner of the artificial being Sonny, in a memorable scene from the 2004 film I, Robot. Zerilli’s background in law is evident throughout, with many legal processes described in excruciating detail. “Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot take a blank canvas and turn it into a masterpiece?”

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 30, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Join PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, the Pennsylvania Resources Council and other waste experts for a September 21 webinar on their plan to reduce waste, improve recycling efforts and bring Pennsylvania’s antiquated recycling laws into the 21st Century. million tons. -- In 2019, the most recent year available, 5.25 million tons.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Guam’s Clean Water Act consent decree may be a less common set of facts than state law settlements with state enforcement agencies. But sometimes the state settlement bars a later CERCLA claim by the state against the settling party by action of state law, rather than by express terms of the agreement. Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. ,

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

The Report also found that BSEE does not thoroughly account for environmental risks when authorizing decommissioning, does not ensure that operators properly clean and bury pipelines prior to abandonment, and does not monitor the location or condition of pipelines subsequent to abandonment.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2017

Therefore, the trial court did not err in ruling, as a matter of law, a notarial affidavit of correction cannot be used to correct the omission of a mineral rights reservation in a sale of land, since reservation of real rights is a substantive issue which implicates the thought process and intention of the parties to the transaction. [14]

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Yet the state law minimum “set-back” for well construction is only 500 feet. The recommendation said-- “Everything we’ve seen confirms that all the impacts of fracking activity are magnified by proximity. The closer you live to a gas well, compressor station or pipeline the more likely you are to suffer ill effects. That is dangerously close.

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

Is this an element of state water law or something new and different? Many portions of the country will be resistant to any type of federal policy in this area, especially since water law is so state specific. For example, who has a right to claim the wet gold resulting from atmospheric water management? 490, 90 Stat.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 6, 2022

24, 2004), Plaintiff Borough of Edgewater (“Edgewater”) brought Spill Act claims relating to PCB contaminated material which was used as fill in a public park project. In Borough of Edgewater v. Waterside Construction, LLC, et al., 2022 WL 557903 (D.N.J.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2018

The issue in the case became whether the MSC was a “maritime” contract: if so, general maritime law applied and the indemnity provision would be enforced; if not, the Louisiana Oilfield Indemnity Act (LOIA) applied and the provision was unenforceable. Kirby , 543 U.S. If so, the contract is maritime in nature.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2007

In 2004, FERC extended the reach of the Standards so that they applied to the pipeline companies’ relationship not only with marketing affiliates but other entities in the industry. The Standards required pipelines and ther marketing affiliates to function independently and imposed restrictions the the sharing of information between them.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

UNOCAL appealed to the Fifth Circuit, arguing, inter alia , that Sojitz’s claim for equitable subrogation failed as a matter of law because the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”) does not grant BSEE a civil claim for monetary damages based on a party’s failure to perform decommissioning to which Sojitz could subrogate. 611 (Bankr.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The Fifth Circuit agreed with the lower court that state statutes and case law characterize SRA-L as an arm of the state; but caveated that the factor was restricted and “given the inconsistent descriptions in the same statutes and the lack of a more-definite characterization in either statute or case law.” [7] Caremark, Inc.,

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Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2022

Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement By Cynthia Cane , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 9, 2022 Fred Tuman’s journey to the environmentalism movement was unorthodox, to say the least.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Where an agency adopts an administrative appeal process, the common law exhaustion rule applies in CEQA cases and the remedy’s scope is defined by the specific jurisdiction’s relevant and available local procedures. City of Berkeley (2004) 122 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 4th 572, 592.)

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

We must apply the laws that the Legislature has written to the facts in the record. Factual and Procedural Background UC campuses are required by law to periodically adopt LRDPs to guide their decisions on land and infrastructure development. Amador Water Agency (2004) 116 Cal.App.4th Our task is limited. 4th 1099, 1109.)

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Downtown Specific Plan was adopted in 2004, and supported by a certified EIR; it was later amended in 2009 at which time the City evaluated those changes in a subsequent EIR (SEIR). Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2022

From 1982-2004, the Pennsylvania River Otter Reintroduction Project released 153 otters into eight water systems in central and western Pennsylvania. After the bill creating the Wild Resources Conservation Program was signed into law, he served on the original advisory board for the program for 22 years. Related Articles: -- Dr.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Comply with laws, regulations, and other environmentally-orientated requirements. Official revisions were released in 2004 and 2015. The number 14000 is an identifier that refers to the broad family of Environmental Management System (EMS) standards. Adopt processes to continually improve on the above.

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest Post by Sheela Turbek , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University Imagine your favorite crime drama, something along the lines of Law and Order or CSI. Suddenly, ten years later, skeletal remains are uncovered in a marshy drainage.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On appeal, the Second Circuit agreed with the trial court's holding that Section 230 preempted the user's state and constitutional law claims. In 2004, its offshore site was damaged by Hurricane Ivan and leaked oil; consequently, Taylor was required by statute to decommission the site.

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