Environment Next

AUGUST 31, 2021

This saga began back in 1972 when Congress enacted the Clean Water Act regulating discharges to “waters of the United States,” without further definition of such waters. Federal agencies later defined “waters of the United States” by regulation. That regulation was challenged by the regulated community and a divided U.S.

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Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

715 (2006), which interpreted covered “waters” in the CWA to include “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water forming geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes.” United States , 547 U.S. Some projects likely won’t see a meaningful difference.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award [PaEN] -- Statewide Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Recognizes John Dawes With First Mayfly Award [PaEN] -- John Dawes Recognized With Federal Office Of Surface Mining ECHO Award [PaEN] -- John Dawes, Wild Resource Program Receive PAEP 2006 Karl Mason Awards [PaEN] -- Rep.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. In 2006, the Court defined a wetland as any body of water which has a “significant nexus” to a waterway.

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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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Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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. It turns out that the regulatory framework for positive energy districts is currently spread over many different Acts and Regulations.

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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.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is still awaiting funding to craft the regulations needed to implement the laws, though it has indicated it will begin the process soon. However, the existence of federal regulations on the same subject as a state law does not mean that state law is necessarily preempted. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) -- Sunoco Pipeline - Tinicum Release Site: DEP received a Remedial Investigation Report/ Cleanup Plan on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with unleaded gasoline in Tinicum Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. (

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The dissent reasoned that CEQA, a powerful and mandatory regulatory statute operating in areas duplicative of FERC’s FPA licensing authority, “stands as a clear obstacle to the Congressional objective of vesting exclusive control over hydropower licensing and regulation in FERC.”.

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Acoel

AUGUST 19, 2021

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.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

SB 528 explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target (that includes more than just buildings) unmatched by any other state. Okay, I understand there is a new law and there are yet to be regulations, but when do I have to first do something under this law?

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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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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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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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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

Governments must enforce stringent regulations, conduct carrying capacity assessments, and invest in infrastructure development. Only if we help, shall all be saved. ” - Jane Goodall , conservationist Ecotourism holds immense potential as a tool for conservation, community empowerment, and sustainable development.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2024

It seems that ITLOS is of the view that, by taking into account relevant external rules, we can minimize ‘apparent conflicts’ of norms, and that the treaty being interpreted can speak in one voice without at the same time creating a cacophony of voices when taken with other treaties or rules regulating similar subject-matters.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Accelerating the Road to Regulation. including the FTC Green Guides, soon to be updated, the SEC proposed rule on climate risk disclosure , and for those companies with sales in the EU, the 2006 directive concerning misleading and comparative advertising. Aligning Lobbying and Advocacy 7. People and Nature in the Just Transition 8.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

incentives, regulations, and carbon pricing) that form the portfolio approach the state has adopted to achieve the 2020 GHG reduction target established by AB 32 (achieve the 1990 level of emissions by 2020), and later scenarios to achieve the 2030 target. The views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan?

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

109, quoting R v Rimmington [2005] UKHL 63, [2006] 1 AC 459. Smith had lost at the Court of Appeal largely because the Court felt that climate change was a matter for regulators, rather than the judiciary. In other words, a public nuisance is something that endangers public interests or public rights. The Court suggested (at para.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

PJM’s all-time, one-day highest power use was recorded in the summer of 2006 at 165,563 MW. PJM projects a non-diversified peak demand for electricity this summer at approximately 156,000 MW and has performed reliability studies at loads nearing 163,000 MW. One megawatt can power about 800 homes.

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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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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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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated 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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Acoel

DECEMBER 13, 2021

NMFS has implemented regulations to reduce right whale entanglements since the late 1990s. The Marine Mammal Protection Act requires NMFS to prevent the depletion of endangered marine mammals that interact with commercial fisheries, the court stated, and the Endangered Species Act embodies Congress’s “plain intent.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), 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. Endnotes. [1] at 150-51. [5]

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