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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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.

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Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability; Lead Author of WP 1 T1.2 For heat, a focus on districts is logical due to the fact that transportation of heat over longer distances results in energy-losses (depending on various factors; Werner 2006, 10 ) and thus inefficiencies.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

He played a key role in modernizing Pennsylvania’s regulation of mining operations, adoption of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and served as the first Director of the federal Office of Surface Mining. If there is a father of the federal coal mine regulation program, Walter N. Heine is it. Heine Associates, Inc.

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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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MARCH 1, 2023

The state of Minnesota uses EPA’s ethylene oxide emissions standards, which haven’t been updated since 2006. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2024

On 21 May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered its much anticipated Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. 133) and iii) Article 31(3)(c) VCLT, according to which account shall be taken of “any relevant rules of international law applicable in the relations between the parties” (para.

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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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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

In Massachusetts, conservation commissions have generally regulated work in wetlands since the 1960s under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, Mass. John died in 2006, and Ann, then the sole owner, sold the property to Pesas in 2014. One can fill or otherwise alter a wetland under an approval known as an “order on conditions.”

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 1999, the SEC Historical Society shares, preserves, and advances knowledge of the history of financial regulation. It is a registered non-profit and independent organization that maintains a virtual museum and archive of the SEC.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program up to and including the most recent Bipartisan Infrastructure Law would not have been possible without John’s leadership and his early work with Louise Dunlap. He will continue in a consultancy role to the FPW over the next year.

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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.

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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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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. potentially regulated wetlands). Supreme Court in Sackett v. Following SWANCC v.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. potentially regulated wetlands). Supreme Court in Sackett v. Following SWANCC v.

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Acoel

AUGUST 19, 2021

The panel’s legal gymnastics to reach this conclusion could be the basis for an entire law school seminar. The panel summarily dispenses with the intervening EPA regulation in a footnote indicating that it is not controlling because EPA has said it intends to reconsider it. One thing seems certain.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. EPA subsequently issued regulations implementing this exemption. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

As detailed in our prior Sackett blog article , CWA jurisdictional decisions have been plagued by administrative rulings, guidance, and court opinions that attempted to implement the plurality opinion in the Supreme Court’s 2006 Rapanos v. water[s] of the United States, (i.e.,

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. The views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan? Draft Plan at 19-21.)

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MGKF Law

MAY 29, 2023

715, 754 (2006). United States, 547 U.S. While the 9-0 decision was unanimous in judgment by holding that the Sacketts’ wetland was not subject to federal jurisdiction, the court was sharply divided as to the test to determine when an adjacent wetland qualifies as a Water of the United States (or “WOTUS”).

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Accelerating the Road to Regulation. that does not have the force of law), but also with national laws like those in the U.S., Aligning Lobbying and Advocacy 7. People and Nature in the Just Transition 8. Increasing Transparency and Accountability 9. Investing in Just Transitions 10.

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Founded in Denver, Colorado in 2006, Origins is a NELAP-certified environmental testing laboratory that specializes in measuring the contamination of water, soil and air for oil and gas clients in the Rocky Mountain region. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. State of Karnataka , the Karnataka High Court ordered the handover of a restaurant building under forest conservation law violations. EcoPerspectives Blog The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S. If C (adjacent wetlands) were not part of A (“the waters of the United States”) and therefore subject to regulation under the CWA, there would be no point in excluding them from that category. United States , 547 U.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Supreme Court will hear arguments in an animal welfare case from California that could have profound, negative impacts on a host of the Golden State’s environmental laws and policies. Specifically, the trade groups claim that the California law violates so-called “dormant” Commerce Clause principles. Constitution.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 27, 2023

5th , a case mainly focused on water law but which also has some significant CEQA implications. The trial court also cited case law and section 3733 of title 23 of the California Code of Regulations to support its ruling that the permits were entirely exempt from CEQA irrespective of the statute’s only reference to chapter 3.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

The obvious intent of the SPA is to guaranty “that, when seamen provide information of dangerous situations to the Coast Guard, they will be free from the “debilitating threat of employment reprisals for publicly asserting company violations” of maritime statutes or regulations.” Riverboat Services of Indiana, Inc., 451 F.3d

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The use of solicitors is regulated by the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and by the various states. The SEC regulates the use of solicitors and imposes certain requirements. Other Exemptions A lawyer or compliance professional will need to examine the law in each state in which one intends to engage CPA’s as solicitors.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This dangerous Bill has been forced into law through a process designed to prevent meaningful consideration of its impacts, discussion with those affected, or on a time frame that reflects the enormity of the changes. SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . We will all need to work together to see this legislation repealed. .

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . This Bill would remove the power of Conservation Authorities to regulate or prohibit sprawl developers and land speculators from destroying wetlands, river or stream valleys, within their jurisdiction, in almost every case. Below is a detailed analysis of Bill 23. Jeopardizing Rental Replacement.

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Vermont Law

MAY 25, 2020

A study performed by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that close to 70 percent of scientists working with regulations under the EPA reported at least one occurrence of political interference. [19]. It only makes sense for the law to apply this approach to warning label language requirements. Species Protection Law and U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2007

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources has issued a proposed amendment to Statewide Order 29-B that details the procedures the Department will follow in implementing oilfield clean-up plans referred to the Department under Act 312 of 2006. To view the proposed regulations, click here.

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