PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

Climate Change

Physics World

APRIL 4, 2022

Confronting the second law. All laws of physics are invariant with respect to forward or backward flow of time, or the choice of the origin of time for a given equation. The only exception is the second law of thermodynamics, which establishes the concept of entropy. In 2006 researchers in the US ( Ann. 109 160401 ).

Law

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

2030

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

She held this position through the 2005-2006 Legislative Session. She retired from the state Senate in 2012. starting in the law department but was promoted to Corporate Secretary and then to Vice President for Environmental and Governmental Affairs. She then had a long career at Quaker State Oil Corp.

2002

Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

A proposed approach to the problem of animal suffering not adequately addressed under existing law is to extend public health emergency and disaster preparedness and resilience frameworks to farm animal communities drawing on the model crisis standards of care. [2]. 991, 1007 (2012). [2]. The National Academies Press (2012), [link]. [3].

2009

CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 7, 2022

2006) 141 Cal.App.4th 2006) 139 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2012) 208 Cal.App.4th Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Monterey Peninsula Water Management Dist. 4th 677, 693-694.). San Lorenzo Valley Unified School Dist.

2006

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This goal was finally realized in 2006 thanks to a groundbreaking technique developed by John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, who received a Nobel prize for this achievement in 2012. Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors in a microchip doubles every two years, has held for 60 years.

2006

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

Regulations

The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

Thus, under the 2006 regulations, stormwater from Oil &Gas sites that only contained sediment was always exempt from permitting. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated. See Natural Resources Defense Council v. United States Environmental Protection Agency , 526 F.3d 3d 591 (9th Cir. See 73 Fed.

Regulations

CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

City of Lodi (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th 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 and County of San Francisco (2012) 208 Cal.App.4th 4th 1209, 1223.)

Law

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”.

Regulations

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

According to global witness 64 of the 212 activists murdered came from Columbia, with South America being the worst affected region for activist killings since 2012 [6]. Businesses, financers and governments should be held accountable and laws must be put into place to prevent their constant climate-wrecking activities. 2 pp 105-110.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

In striking down Act 13 [of 2012] that removed local government's constitutional obligations and constitutional rights afforded to all Pennsylvania citizens , the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held, “ [ n ] o principle of law permits us to suspend constitutional requirements for economic reasons, no matter how compelling those reasons may seem.

Regulations

The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

2006), requiring EPA to fulfill its statutory duties of promulgating emissions standards by June 15, 2009. EPA requested another extension of this deadline through April 13, 2012, but this request was opposed by the plaintiff, the Sierra Club. EPA , 489 F. 3d 1250 (D.C. Johnson , 444 F. 2d 46 (D.D.C.

2011

CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

DWR’s efforts in this regard took place from 2001 to 2006, involving “five federal agencies, five state agencies, seven local government entities, five Native American tribes, four local water agencies, and 13 nongovernmental organizations,” with three years of hearings and two years of negotiations. 2012) 209 Cal.App.4th

Climate Change

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

2014

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Site-Specific Industrial Development Project In 2012, developer Hilltop Group, Inc. City of Turlock (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th 4th 273, 294 [analyzing whether City zoning ordinance was eligible for exemption].) See, e.g., Elmendorf & Duncheon, “Does the HAA (or anything else) Provide Remedy [for] CEQA-Laundered Project Denials?”

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Energy Transfer has told neighbors to the facility since then information related to the explosion is confidential under Act 156 of 2006 the state Public Utility Confidential Security Information and Disclosure Protection Act and DEP should not be releasing copies of its inspection reports on the facility. the same day. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Yep, it’s those Sacketts—the ones who went to the Supreme Court the first time in 2012 to argue that Clean Water Act jurisdictional determinations (usually, as here, regarding whether wetlands are “waters of the United States”) are final agency actions that can be immediately appealed. United States. 3d —, 2022 WL 952072, at *2 (D.

Clean Water Act

Acoel

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Beginning in 2012, I spent seven years on the Advisory Committee for Civil Rules. 2006) ; Fed. And how could there be when the court of appeals is citing cases dated in 1991, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2011. But the court of appeals’ statement of the law was not. Posted on October 6, 2021 by John M. Part I: Rulemaking.

2015

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms. Because of reclamation law, former mine sites are now soccer fields or home to new manufacturing. .

2008

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

2017

Energy & the Law

JUNE 2, 2021

2006: the Bank executes a correction mineral deed attempting to change the fee mineral interest to a life estate. 2012: John executes royalty deeds conveying his interests to Yates Energy. The dispute. 2005: Broadway Bank, Trustee, conveys mineral interests in DeWitt and Gonzales Counties to John in fee simple. Material corrections.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since 2016, EPA has generally shown restraint in setting targets for biodiesel and related fuels, insofar as the law allows, and biodiesel consumption has actually fallen. Feedstock consumption for bio-based diesel fuel produced in the US has more than doubled since 2012 and exceeded 11 MMT in 2022.

Biofuels

The Energy Law

MAY 3, 2021

Nearly a hundred years later, in 2006, the mineral estate of the northwest tract was owned by the Richey family and was leased to Mr. Ellison d/b/a Ellison Lease Operating, whereas the mineral estate of the southeast tract was owned by the Farmar family and was leased to Samson. In 2012, the southeast tract lease was assigned to Concho.

2008

The Energy Law

MAY 3, 2021

Nearly a hundred years later, in 2006, the mineral estate of the northwest tract was owned by the Richey family and was leased to Mr. Ellison d/b/a Ellison Lease Operating, whereas the mineral estate of the southeast tract was owned by the Farmar family and was leased to Samson. In 2012, the southeast tract lease was assigned to Concho.

2008

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2012) (2012 Guidance) and Adverse Event Reporting to IRBs—Improving Human Subject Protection (Jan. This draft guidance integrates and updates the investigator-specific content that was split between the 2009 and 2012 Guidances, giving investigators a one-stop-shop resource for safety reporting responsibilities.

2021

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

But at least under Delaware law, the WeWork decision expanded the applicability of a test that was originally intended for evaluating privilege in the context of employer-employee disputes where the employee uses a work email address for communicating with his or her personal attorney. 2006 WL 1851481, at *1 (Del. 27, 2006).]]

2013

Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

2020

Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

2020

Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

2020

Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

2020

Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

2020

Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuit Kidney Buzz | October 19, 2021 Two workers filed a private attorney general action and a class-action lawsuit against Fresenius based on its alleged failure to provide legally compliant rest and meal periods, overtime pay, wage statements, final paychecks, and other alleged wage and hour violations of California labor laws.

2020

Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. Better preparedness for heat waves, which could increase in a hotter world, will save lives.

2020

The Energy Law

JUNE 4, 2012

By Rob McNeal Updated June 15, 2012 Significant revisions and amendments to Louisiana’s oilfield cleanup legislation, La. 30:29 (commonly known as Act 312) obtained final legislative approval on May 31, 2012 and are expected to become law shortly. In addition, regulators were criticized for their handling of Act 312 issues.

2012

ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Supreme Court failed to reach a consensus in the 2006 Rapanos v. 8965) that would reauthorize existing control of aquatic plant growths and invasive species law through fiscal year 2028. The Sacketts are represented by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation and backed by business and agricultural groups.

2022