Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. In the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. Therefore, even if the current Chilean Government wanted to take over lithium production, that won’t happen soon.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you have ever wondered how many ways a cocktail of stupidity*, treachery and feckless government can inflict financial harm on the undeserving, including the citizens the feckless government leaders are supposed to serve, see City of Dallas v. The applications were filed correctly and in accordance with applicable laws.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Photo courtesy of Kristina Rosinsky, 2008/Undugu Society of Kenya YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Due to the strains of population growth and inaccessible sanitation systems, the Nairobi River and surrounding farmland are becoming more polluted. Water stress throughout Kenya has prompted government action.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2024

More about her accomplishments will be posted-- this is a start from her obituary -- A graduate of Vassar College (’60) and one of only a handful of women in her class at Penn Law School (’63), she built a pioneering career as a land use and environmental lawyer. Every Pennsylvanian owes her a tremendous debt of gratitude.” [In

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. from Lewis & Clark Law School, with a certificate in environmental and natural resources law, and a B.A. The Emmett Institute is co-sponsoring the meeting. Jason received his J.D.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

From 2008 to 2013, Barrow served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Commissioner Wayne E. Starting as a staff attorney at the Commission in 2001, she spent several years practicing administrative regulatory law. She received her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The court found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. There were three separate claims, brought by (1) Friends of the Earth, (2) ClientEarth, and (3) Good Law Project and environmental campaigner Joanna Wheatley. 14 of the Climate Change Act 2008 ( CCA ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2023

The many marker bills that could help workers Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act (PAMWA): The giants of the meat processing industry are well known for violating labor laws and exploiting its workforce, subjecting workers to degrading and perilous conditions.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Terminal is long-term leased by Chinese government-owned entities (“China Shipping”) from the City entities and handles about 17% of the Port’s total cargo. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Predictably, this led to CEQA litigation.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Actually, the term green hushing was coined anecdotally in academia in 2008 to allude to a contrasting concept to “greenwashing” in the tourism industry describing “green hushing as the deliberate managerial undercommunicating of corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts for fear of negative customer opinions and responses.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

The treaty, in force as international law for nearly 20 years, now binds 183 parties, protecting more than 90 percent of the world’s people. But even in countries with strong free speech protections like the First Amendment to the US Constitution, governments have a right—indeed an obligation—to curtail speech that is harmful.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The court relied on several key facts in ruling that the wetland met the “adjacency” requirement of the EPA and Corps’ 2008 rules that were in effect at the time the compliance order was issued to the Sacketts. Some 28 states have laws on the books mandating that state law be “ no stricter than federal law.”

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Despite the tremendous harm that CAFOs do, the federal government does not effectively regulate methane emissions from CAFOs. The EPA had promulgated a rule exempting smaller farms from mandatory air emissions reporting requirements back in 2008. Then, the D.C. Citizens can pressure state legislatures to regulate CAFOs more strictly.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Given this, over the last century, a large body of international law has been developed to govern ocean-based activities. It is proving difficult in part because of the highly siloed nature of international environmental law. This is consistent with the precautionary principle that underlies much international environmental law.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The notion that nature has legal rights was not new—it had already been enshrined in the 2008 Ecuadorian and 2009 Bolivian Constitutions and has had impacts in other parts of the world (such as New Zealand and Colorado). Despite current inaction, constitutional law in Colombia now recognizes the Atrato River as a living entity with rights.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past several years – and especially in the past few months – Premier Doug Ford’s government has made sweeping changes to environmental protection and land use planning rules across Ontario. . Flow direction is shown on the map from the 2008 Watershed Report Card. This is a guest blog by Brendon Samuels.

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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 initial plan was approved in 2008 , with the second in 2013 , and the most recent iteration in 2017.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan responded in 2008 by requiring farmers to register any new well capable of pumping at least 100,000 gallons a day and forming a team of state regulators to issue or deny new registrations. There’s a reason that farmers, notoriously resistant to government oversight, support the work of the Water Assessment Unit.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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Montrose

DECEMBER 16, 2022

(“Huco”), a leading consultant specializing in the implementation of environment, health and safety (EHS) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) systems and software for industrial, commercial and government clients. Founded in 2008, Huco is a team of EHS & ESG data management system consultants based in North America.

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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. 791a et seq.). See Marin Mun. Water Dist.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 3, 2022

In a lengthy, but mostly unpublished, opinion filed December 16, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting a petitioner group’s CEQA, Planning and Zoning Law, and procedural due process/fair hearing challenges to the City of San Diego’s approval of a four-lane road connecting existing developments.

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Montrose

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Founded in 2008 and based in Oakland, California, Horizon performs various environmental consulting services for state and local government organizations and are experts in CEQA/NEPA, environmental laws, regulatory requirements, and permitting. will join Montrose’s Planning & Ecosystem Consulting segment. About Montrose.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note that the court of appeals correctly cited current Rule 26(b)(1) in the second sentence, but then cites to pre-December 1, 2015 case law and even cites a 2011 decision that quotes the 2000 version of Rule 26(b)(1): This court recognizes broad and liberal treatment of the federal discovery rules. LEXIS 28171, 2008 WL 926587, at *2 (N.D.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) released its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change. In 2008, the parties determined that “the scope of the London Convention and Protocol includes ocean fertilization activities,” and adopted a non-binding governance framework for those activities.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Meanwhile, as early as 2008, E.coli bacteria was at alarming levels in Elk Lake. The township does have a law requiring a septic system inspection when a house sells. Many residents did not want the government interfering with their private property rights by forcing them to switch from septic systems.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

constitutive law. passed local law. Although procedural and ethical rules protect lawyers in making good faith arguments for extensions and changes in the law, some courts have viewed the extension of standing to a watershed or nonhuman animal as outside of that realm. Earth Law Center. constitution.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Public Health : Based on a law first introduced in 2008 and then the success of a pilot program initially implemented in the heart of London dating to 2019, the first year of this program alone will reduce GHG emissions by 45% from those vehicles that are no longer there.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the past decade, as the use of Red Notices by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) member states has increased dramatically, so too have calls for INTERPOL to strengthen its gatekeeping function and guard against national authorities' potential misuse of this powerful tool of international law enforcement cooperation.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

The origin of NTL 2009-G04 and SSRAs dates to 2008, when, in response to a request from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) and under the authority of 30 C.F.R. that is funded in whole or in part by or authorized by the Federal Government.”

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 23, 2023

billion borrowed from the discount window as of March 15, which is $41 billion higher than the previous record of $111 billion set in 2008. 10 (OC 10) governs advances from the BTFP and the discount window because OC 10 contains the terms under which an entity may obtain advances from, incur obligations to, or pledge collateral to a FRB.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

action, and discussing general legal principles governing CEQA review under the Commission’s certified regulatory program, the Court examined in detail the Commission’s procedures for de novo review of CDP applications. 2008) 169 Cal.App.4th After reciting the standard of review in a CCP § 1094.5 Code Regs., § 13096; McAllister v.

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