Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Renewables are 6% of power. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The cube root law suggests that the number of representatives should grow at a slower rate than the general population. A 2008 study found that residents in smaller districts were more likely to have contact with their representatives and were also more likely to approve of their representative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. Reports informing decisions Minnesota passed a cumulative impacts law in 2008 that implemented a method that required facilities to include a report on potential health impacts when applying for a permit.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois. As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 1, 2023

The Supreme Court held that “in light of the boundary stipulation and the signed 2008 letter, Ellison as a matter of law ratified the boundary line in the stipulation as the boundary of Ellison’s leasehold.” The Court overruled Ellison’s issue related to the existence of a contract.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

However, this federal scrutiny is clearer when considering Vermonts status as home to one of the nations leading environmental law schools, which trains attorneys to advocate for stronger environmental oversight. Vermont Law School cited numerous concerns with how ANR issued and enforced discharge permits to prevent water pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Additionally, many countries recognize the right to a healthy environment in their constitutions and laws. For example, Ecuador’s 2008 constitution enshrines the rights of nature, acknowledging that “nature has the right to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate its vital cycles.”

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. December 2008: TCEQ remands the application for more modeling. TCEQ improperly rewrote many of the administrative law judge’s findings of fact underlying the approval of the permits and made changes not based solely on the record. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

By Katie Caswell The House Ways and Means Committee has introduced HR 5351, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, which eliminates the manufacturing tax credit for major oil and gas companies and locks the credit at six percent for other producers and refiners.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). Although direct reform of SCOTUS was not [a] type of law or policy we focused on in this course, the rules related to the Court’s composition of nine justices with lifetime tenure must change. –Jay Parepally, JD 2023.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A 2008 EPA report published during the Bush administration said, “Given their importance and vast extent, it is concluded that an individual ephemeral or intermittent stream segment should not be examined in isolation.” In others , water flows into underground aquifers. And then there are ephemeral streams that run only during rainfalls.

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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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Acoel

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Extended producer responsibility [“EPR”] laws are intended to place a significant share of the environmental costs of a product on the manufacturer or “producer.”. In the United States, approximately 40 states have enacted EPR laws since 2008. Posted on November 11, 2021 by Jim Bruen. take-back, recycling and final disposal.”.

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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. The law and the program require applicants to provide data and make the case they are not causing harm. .

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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. Jason received his J.D. from Gonzaga University in biology and French.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Wells drilled in 2009 and 2008. Smith 1 shale gas well in Henry Clay Township, Fayette County [ DEP inspection report ] and the Keslar 9 shale gas well in Redstone Township, Fayette County [ DEP inspection report ] found the wells abandoned, one leaking gas and with no emergency plan onsite. Original violations 9.26.24. Decrease To 31.2%

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Law and Environment

JULY 27, 2023

Early this afternoon, Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD 1895 , legislation directing the state to procure up to 3 GW of offshore wind by 2040. Now that the bill is signed into law, Maine is the seventh U.S. I am pleased with of the outcome of this legislation and proud to sign it into law.” The post Maine Gov.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

He professes his love for Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air , the 2008 book by the late University of Cambridge physicist David MacKay. He insists that nuclear should remain in the mix because of renewables’ intermittency and the absence of a Moore’s law for batteries, wryly noting how much he has lost on battery start-ups.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 12, 2023

The court traced the Commission’s authority to a 2008 minute entry in which two of the three commissioners approved a permit while directing staff that wells that are permitted based on PSA’s should be approved when the operator certifies that at least 65% of the working and mineral interest owners in each component tract have signed a PSA.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The City entities were supposed to incorporate mitigation measures from a 2008 EIR (arising from an earlier CEQA action settlement) into China Shipping’s lease, but didn’t; many measures were only potentially implemented or ignored altogether, leading to the City entities’ consideration and adoption of revised measures pursuant to a 2020 EIR.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 1, 2022

November 2008 : Bash #1 ceases production, oil field equipment remains on the ground, readily visible. Jamie emerged victorious in 1L year at Baylor Law and is a Gray Reed summer associate. The events: 2002 and 2004: Mustafa and Lahijani purchase land on which the Bash #1 well is located. Your musical interlude.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The legislation would prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set protective standards on the development of natural gas that “imposes a standard or condition on well development that conflicts with or exceeds those contained” in state law. Read more here. Cecil Township is in Sen. Bartolotta’s district.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2008 during the Barnett Shale drilling boom, the City of Dallas issued an RFP to lease several thousand acres owned by the City. The applications were filed correctly and in accordance with applicable laws. Energy, LLC. Pulling a Lucy on Trinity’s Charlie Brown, after a lengthy delay the City Plan Commission denied the applications.

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

France) , the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized the legally binding nature of such a unilateral declaration under international law, where the statement clearly indicates an intention for that state to be bound. For further elaboration on this idea, see LRI’s legal assistance paper, Unilateral Declarations.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Responsible for implementing the authorities of the PA Conservation District Law of May 15,1945, Paul credits the vision and foresight of the individuals responsible for the enactment of this statue and with enabling and guiding him throughout his soil and water conservation career.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

17 Hearing On Orchard BJK Company Warehouse Chapter 105 Permit In Monroe County -- Penn Today: New Program Brings Penn And William L. Davis Will Lead Democratic Lt.

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Manning Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

On this day, Manning Environmental Law honours the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Our practice is focussed on environmental law, energy law and aboriginal law.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The 2011 General Plan EIR ultimately established three thresholds of significance—one for residential, one for commercial and industrial, and one for transportation activities—based on the strategy and assumptions underlying AB 32’s year 2020 GHG emissions reduction goal, estimated in the 2008 Scoping Plan as 15% below 2005 levels.

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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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Environment Next

APRIL 21, 2020

Supreme Court held that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) (i) does not preclude owners of contaminated property from pursuing state law claims for nuisance, trespass and strict liability, but (ii) requires EPA approval of any remedial action conducted on the landowners’ property.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

2008 ) Chapter 105 Encroachment Permits - Comments -- Appalachia Midstream Services LLC - 10-Inch Gas Pipeline: DEP invites comments on a Chapter 105 permit for a pipeline project impacting South Branch Towanda Creek and wetlands located in New Albany Twp., Received Feb. 6, Issued Feb. PA Bulletin, page.2007 Clinton County. Received Feb.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 7, 2021

They signed the Robison lease in 2008. The Robisons own 50% of the minerals in Tract 1, and 100% of the minerals in Tracts 2, 3 and 4 in Scurry County, Texas. They do not own the executive rights in Tract 1. In 2015 the Williamses signed the Williams lease on Tract 1 with DEA.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2008, Bolivia nationalized lithium, and since then, the state has controlled the access, extraction process, and production of lithium carbonate. The Chilean case Meanwhile, Chile is facing its own challenges, which are mainly related to the peculiar laws and regulations governing lithium production there.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

In addition, many of the world’s top car companies are German – think Volkswagen, BMW etc which have lobbied heavily against ambitious climate laws and a slow down to the transition to electric and hybrid mobility.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

Dean served as the first Upper Neuse Riverkeeper for over seven years, and later became the first Yadkin Riverkeeper in 2008, where he also served as Executive Director until 2014.

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