Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005. Transportation choices ahead At every level of government, policymakers can make choices that lead to a more balanced transportation system. And in Washington, driving declined by more than in any other state between 1996 and 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The consequences of heirs’ property In situations where natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes occur and impact the properties, these families have difficulty accessing FEMA funds or government assistance. The commission will be comprised of members from select nonprofit organizations, judges, and government officials.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. August 2005: TexCom Gulf Disposal seeks a permit from the TCEQ for construction and operation of underground injection control wells for the disposal of non-hazardous industrial wastewater in Montgomery County.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 16, 2023

billion dollar giveaway of development rights in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural preserve and prevent land speculators from suing the government for undeserved “compensation”. The scandal won’t be over until Highway 413 and all the government’s other sprawl initiatives have been abandoned and reversed.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The classic version of a project would be the government constructing a highway or a dam – or granting approval to a private entity to construct a hotel or a housing development. Of course, small-scale actions can aggregate to produce significant cumulative impacts – that is a key challenge and an important focus for environmental law.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2022

Recently, York Region voted to seek provincial government approval for their draft Regional Official Plan. The draft plan violates the Provincial Planning Act that mandates that municipalities must complete and submit plans that comply with provincial law, policies and plans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers. A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. They have also advocated for this to the US government.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2022

No other municipal government has done this since the Greenbelt was created in 2005. Municipal governments do not have the power to remove protections from Greenbelt and Oak Ridges Moraine land. At the June 30th Regional Council meeting, Council initially decided to take those out of the OP. “The

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Will your party commit to reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030? Ontario New Democratic Party: Our commitment is to reduce emissions from 2005 levels by at least 50% by 2030 , and to achieve net-zero by 2050 or earlier. . Completely electrifying government fleets by 2030.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

After the sales, three environmental groups sued Interior and BOEM, asserting that the supplemental EIS did not comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) which governs the preparation of EISs. 4] The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Interior, resulting in the environmental groups’ appeal. FERC , 419 F.3d

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Although coal represents less than 5% of Brazil’s energy mix, the federal government plans to invest 20 billion reais (US$3.7 The Bolsonaro government’s new coal plans face barriers to funding and worsen the country’s already worn-out image at COP26. billion) in the world’s most polluting energy source. billion – was in coal.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

And to do that, transmission products must both get access to the land—by purchase or eminent domain—and get the necessary permits from state, and sometimes local, governments. This is usually done by mounting wires overhead or burying the lines in specialized underground installations. The IRA also provides $9.7

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. The law limits offsets to 5%. First, the law is directed to the Utilities Commission rather than the electric utilities. The Reduction Goal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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Manning Law

MARCH 15, 2022

Work on clean electricity, the Minister says, will also be key to reaching Canada’s ambitious and achievable emissions reduction target of 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario.

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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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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. Qualification is the entry to doing business with the federal government as to federal leasing.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post highlights three ways in which this pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation could advance the field—through its economic aspects, climate governance, and the pertinent international legal regime. As such, it advances economic aspects and climate governance considerations about CCS.

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Frontiers

APRIL 19, 2023

One of the last tiger records from Cambodia: a camera-trap photograph from eastern Cambodia from 2005. Breeding tigers now only occur in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Russia. Image: WWF Cambodia. Image: W Phumanee, WWF Thailand.

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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. Our task is limited.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 6, 2017

At the Fourth Annual Liskow & Lewis Energy Law Lecture, Professor Jim Rossi of Vanderbilt Law delivered a presentation entitled “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation.” Natural gas pipelines have historically been governed by federal law since the passing of the Natural Gas Act of 1938.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

RGGI states are also “on track to achieve reductions of GHG emissions of 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020”, according to the study. An estimate from ABT Associates, a global issues think tank, estimated that RGGI is responsible for “ 300 to 830 lives saved , more than 8,200 asthma attacks avoided, 39,000 lost work days averted, and $5.7

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CEQA Developments

MAY 15, 2023

In so doing, the Court applied and explained numerous principles governing both motions for intervention as of right and motions for permissive intervention. State of California (2005) 128 Cal.App.4th Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. 2023) Cal.App.5th.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The court noted that it was “sympathetic to all who have been aggrieved by the pandemic, [but] not all grievances are redressable by courts of law." 2005); but cf. The court held that it is “black letter law that judicial review of an arbitration award in federal court is substantially circumscribed.”

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The Energy Law

JUNE 2, 2020

Amidst historically low oil prices and economic shutdowns, fossil fuel companies continue to defend against lawsuits brought by state and local governments claiming climate-change related damages. 1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” 308, 314 (2005)). BP PLC et al.,

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

For example, Texas is seeking $12 billion , mostly from the federal government, for a 60-mile “spine” of seawalls that will protect a section of the Texas Gulf Coast—including a hotbed of petrochemical facilities vulnerable to spewing a toxic mess if damaged during a future hurricane.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 23, 2022

Most obviously, and topically, they plainly will apply to housing development projects when state housing laws impose legal obligations that limit local agencies’ legal authority to disapprove or reduce the density of those projects. (See, See, e.g., Gov. Code, § 65589.5 (the the “Housing Accountability Act”).).

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The Energy Law

APRIL 25, 2018

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and catastrophically flooded St. Bernard Parish Government, sued the federal government in Claims Court, claiming that, under the Tucker Act, both action and inaction by the Corps constituted a “taking” by causing flood damage to their properties.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 11, 2006

2415(a), which imposes a 6-year statute of limitations for Government “every action for money damages. The Court also found that the general rule that statutes of limitations are construed narrowly against the government erased all further doubts as to the meaning of section 2415(a). whether 28 U.S.C. Amoco Production Co. 3d 722 (D.C.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In 2005, residents near the Washington Works Plant were invited to be part of a health study conducted by court-appointed epidemiologists. Lauren Gates is a 3L at Vermont Law School, working towards her Masters of Environmental Law a. nd Policy, Water Law Certificate, and Energy Law Certificate. in Biology.

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