Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In California, there’s evidence that rates of heat-related injuries in the workplace have declined—but not to zero—since the state’s heat-protection standards went into effect in 2006. But over the last several years, there’s been a drop in workplace inspections and enforcement of that law.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 Though increasingly climate migrants to other countries are described as “ climate refugees ”, displacement by disasters and climate change is yet to be included in the definition of a refugee as established under international law. Their rights are only covered under human rights law.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2006, the Arizona Department of Water Resources issued two certificates for 4,228 acre-feet of water – 1.35 Hughes water supply options for Teravalis, some available now, others that will require a change in state law and regulation, include tapping another aquifer and delivering water by pipeline.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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. All three of Smith’s claims will now proceed to what may the be first full climate tort claim in a common law jurisdiction.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Learn how to use the formalism to obtain new conservation laws. Asher was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, during 2005–2006, 2008 and 2012. Understand how MHD can be simplified mathematically.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27.

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Physics World

JUNE 14, 2021

The gravity law of human migration says that the movement between two urban areas decrease with distance and increases with population size or importance of the areas. The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. Gravity and radiation. Or put more simply, people are unlikely to travel far too often.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

Supreme Court will hear a case that may narrow the scope of a landmark environmental law. Litigants are pushing for the Court to adopt a narrower definition of the term “wetland,” a move which would exempt certain waterways from regulation under the 1972 environmental law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

This led to an unfair distribution of funds until the FTA’s tribal transit program was implemented in 2006 with a direct funding and application route to the federal government. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 and was the most recent time Congress made significant changes to transit funding and policy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Patricia provides an important message throughout her memoir that ‘the laws of nature are non-negotiable,’” says Your Spiritual Journey Podscaster, Bob Dove, Ph.D. Patricia shares her journey with us as she battles cancer, misogyny, big business, and corporate greed along the way—always sustained by family, flora, and fauna. 2011-present).

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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

John died in 2006, and Ann, then the sole owner, sold the property to Pesas in 2014. That holding not only enlarges liability, but perhaps complicates the diligence that prudent buyers will undertake. One can fill or otherwise alter a wetland under an approval known as an “order on conditions.” The last filling occurred in 1984.

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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. It was undisputed that changing the interests conveyed in the 2005 Mineral Deed was a material correction and that the 2006 Correction Deed failed because John did not execute it. Yates Energy Corp. The dispute.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ? That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” Some states have enacted their own drinking water limits and are moving forward with legislation to restrict or ban products containing PFAS.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2006, a group of landowners filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Louisiana through the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) concerning the ownership of riverbanks in the Catahoula Basin. State of Louisiana through the Department of Natural Resources , 22-0625 (La. 1/1/23), So.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

The state of Minnesota uses EPA’s ethylene oxide emissions standards, which haven’t been updated since 2006. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law. And, as I’ll try to show, these two subjects have a lot in common. What is the situation in Minnesota? These standards no longer adequately protect the public.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 9, 2007

580 (1973), the Fifth Circuit found that “when a land acquisition by the United States arises from and bears heavily on a federal regulatory program, state law cannot, of its own force, govern the acquisition. In Waterfowl Limited Liability Co. United States , No. 05-30219 (5th Cir. The district court agreed. Little Lake Misere Land Co.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Created by law and reporting to the Governor, the General Assembly, DEP and the public, the Councils duty is to review the work of the DEP and make recommendations for improvements, study major environmental issues facing Pennsylvania, and promote sound environmental legislation. In 2006, Ms. For three years, Ms.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The petitioners in the 2006 proceeding stated that they believed it was necessary for the succession to hire counsel to investigate and litigate these claims. The Succession of Mayo Romero. The trial court granted the Defendants’ exceptions of prescription and the Succession appealed.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 28, 2023

2006 Citation assigns to Endeavor some of the properties acquired from Shell Western. Exhibit A describes the properties to be conveyed; some descriptions include references to depth, some do not. 1997: Shell Western purports to transfer to Altura (n/k/a Oxy) the deep rights in some of the properties previously conveyed to Citation.

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The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2021

Tackling this problem, the Louisiana Legislature in 2006 enacted La. The Energy Law Blog will explore the import of the prescription ruling in a separate post. However, there was no mechanism to ensure that a penny of the $33 million awarded in Corbello would be spent on clean-up. 30:29, known as Act 312.

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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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CEQA Developments

MAY 16, 2022

Per the Court, the City prejudicially erred by failing to make the findings required by law, and also by failing to “provide the required ‘brief explanation of the rationale’ for its nonexistent findings.” (Citing CEQA Guidelines, § 15091(a); Laurel Heights Improvement Assn. Board of Trustees of California State University (2006) 39 Cal.4th

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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

Grimstrup does away with the question of whether he is chasing ghosts in little more than a sentence, arguing that the laws of nature seem to have a minimal length scale and that settles the case. It’s an untypical book for the non-fiction genre. Half of it is an attempt to convey the mathematics that Grimstrup believes matches his 2002 idea.

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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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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.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

After losing a celebrated court case, local abolitionists bought their freedom instead, and Massachusetts soon passed a new state law to protect escaped slaves. His service helped to get him a job at a patent law firm in Boston as an “office boy,” as it was called. In 2006, Latimer was added to the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

. -- Worked with the Environmental Integrity Project to clean up Brunner Island in the Susquehanna River. -- Advocated for many key regulatory and legislative initiatives to protect Pennsylvania’s waterways, including the reauthorization of the Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006.

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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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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 7, 2022

2006) 141 Cal.App.4th 2006) 139 Cal.App.4th Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

However, by internalizing the role of environmental law and grassroots efforts, there is a hope of success for Haiti’s continued reconstruction and long-term development. _. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management. Journal of International and Comparative Law. ,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan 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.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The petitioners in the 2006 proceeding stated that they believed it was necessary for the succession to hire counsel to investigate and litigate these claims. The Succession of Mayo Romero. . The trial court granted the Defendants’ exceptions of prescription and the Succession appealed.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In Laddex , the lessee of the top lease, Laddex, sued the lessee of the base lease, BP, contending that the prior lease terminated during a period of slow production between August 2005 and November 2006. Both parties filed petitions for review before the Texas Supreme Court. Briefing can be found here.

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