Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As I noted in my introductory post on the Commission, I served as an advisor to the Secretariat and my students in the UCLA International Climate Law and Policy Clinic provided research and analytic support to the Secretariat. It is thus consistent with large body of prior international law.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__ 5th__ (“ SLD” ).)

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The Energy Law

JUNE 20, 2023

F]ederal maritime law governs whether a claim sounds in admiralty and that the relevant substantive law governs whether a plaintiff has alleged a valid prima facie claim,” citing Blue Whale Corp. Both the time charter and the voyage charter selected the law of England to apply. Grand China Shipping Dev. 649 F.Supp.2d

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Arnold & Porter senior counsel Joel Greenberg was elected as a 2021 Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel, the organization for leading corporate governance lawyers from the US and Canada. Greenberg is one of 14 new Fellows in its 2021 class of distinguished leading practitioners.

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In a series of publications, most importantly her 2009 book, Chasing the Wind , Noga Morag-Levine has argued forcefully for distinguishing between continental European-style "police" regulation and common-law-style environmental regulation based on a nuisance conception. Like salus populi , sic utere served a centralizing function.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. If you have read this far , I’ll let you know that my time at the UCLA School of Law has come to an end.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2025

And thats exactly the purpose of Mission 300, a new partnership involving governments, the private sector, development banks and philanthropies with each stakeholder playing their part to achieve a common goal. Governments need to advance reforms to make the energy sector more efficient and attractive to private investors.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. Companies put their own remediation programs on hold while they waited for the government to pay to clean up their mess.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. Zhao could have stayed in the US or followed the Nationalist government to Taiwan, but his allegiance lay with the land of his birth and its people. Great power rivalry. Erecting barriers. Read more.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

The shale gas wells were drilled from 2009 to 2013 in the earlier days of the shale gas revolution and never produced. Drilled in 2009 but not produced. [ Response requested by April 11. -- Centre County, Snow Shoe Twp.: DCNR COP Tract 231 A-1000H. Inactive status expired November 7, 2020. Clearview Hunting Club Pad A 4H.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

The case, which was filed in 2020, relates to the government’s failure to disburse payments from the Climate Fund. Brazil’s Climate Fund was established in 2009 as a financial instrument of the National Climate Policy Plan. This “supralegality” of human rights treaties means that they are above “regular” laws in the legal hierarchy.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 14, 2008

On Tuesday, February 26, the Louisiana Legislature adjourned a special session called by newly-elected Governor Bobby Jindal in the hope of enacting sweeping changes to Louisiana ethics laws relating to elected officials and other state administrators. The website is supposed to be fully functional by January 2009.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post highlights three ways in which this pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation could advance the field—through its economic aspects, climate governance, and the pertinent international legal regime. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP. It enables the provisional (i.e.,

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

And to do that, transmission products must both get access to the land—by purchase or eminent domain—and get the necessary permits from state, and sometimes local, governments. But two appellate-court decisions strictly limited this authority: A 2009 Fourth Circuit decision, Piedmont Environmental Council v. The IRA also provides $9.7

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In 2009, after declaring bankruptcy under Chapter 7, Homaidan obtained a discharge order from the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York, however, the order did not specify which debts were discharged and noted that “debts for most student loans are not dischargeable in a Chapter 7 proceeding. 3d 206 (5th Cir.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision. From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4 Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law. acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16).

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

A proposed approach to the problem of animal suffering not adequately addressed under existing law is to extend public health emergency and disaster preparedness and resilience frameworks to farm animal communities drawing on the model crisis standards of care. [2]. This includes farm animals and livestock. [7].

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He was the longest-serving Chairman in the Board’s history, having been named by Governor Rendell as Acting Chairman in April 2007 and appointed Chairman and Chief Judge in 2009. Senior Counsel Maryanne Wesdock, who served as law clerk to Judge Renwand, stated, “Chief Judge Renwand loved serving on the Board. Judge Steven C.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Still, given the potential for even more serious damage in the future, government at all levels is taking action to address the issue. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates the response cost to EAB infestation from 2009 to 2019 at . VGP), the Coast Guard, and state and local governments. It likely arrived in the U.S.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a sub-agency within Interior, promulgated regulations in 2009 which set forth the procedure for leasing, siting, construction, and operation of offshore wind projects. Qualification is the entry to doing business with the federal government as to federal leasing. 556.400; 30 C.F.R.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. Yes, there are ecological factors at play, but human governance, or lack of governance, creates a stage for degradation. The work was very rewarding.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 4, 2021

In the area of State Water Resources Control Board (“SWRCB” or the “State Board”) water quality certifications (“WQCs”) under the Federal Clean Water Act (“CWA”; 33 U.S.C § 1251 et seq), this bedrock principle appears to have been watered down, and it may be significantly eroding under pressure from a preemptive federal law deadline.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” Not just for lawyers, this Tuesday, December 14 at noon. It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. Register today for the live virtual program. yes, this blog will continue).

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. The European Green Deal and the proposed European Climate Law reinforce the EU’s goal to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050, meaning that the EU will emit no more greenhouse gases than it removes from the air (for example through reforestation). Schoenefeld, J.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. In 2009, the EMC adopted rules to implement the final nutrient management strategy. Later in 2009, the legislature adopted the first of.a Background. UNC Findings.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

And that state and local government activity targeting building owners lies beneath the surface of national ESG mandates aimed at the businesses that are tenants which new laws are in many instances GHG emission disclosure heavy. A lease is the most common real estate transaction in America. Share data.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

The denials are accompanied by an order from BSEE to decommission the pipelines by removal, with reference to Notice to Lessees (“NTL”) 2009-G04 and/or “significant sediment resource areas” (“SSRA”) in the vicinity of the pipeline. that is funded in whole or in part by or authorized by the Federal Government.”

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CEQA Developments

MAY 3, 2021

5th 321, 329-330 (my April 5, 2019 post on which can be found here ) in setting out the general CEQA principles and standards governing its review in a case challenging an EIR’s content and analysis. City and County of San Francisco (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th of Directors (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

by Elisabeth Lorio Baer Interior Secretary Ken Salazar informed Congress on September 17, 2009 that he would kill a controversial program, currently in effect, that allows energy companies to pay the government royalties for drilling on public lands in actual oil and gas in lieu of cash.

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

Is this an element of state water law or something new and different? Nevertheless, the federal government has not funded weather modification research and operations since the WDMP program, but states have increasingly become involved in weather modification regulation. Who is responsible for any collateral consequences? 490, 90 Stat.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 18, 2009

Hinnigan On June 10, 2009, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) reaffirmed its strong stance that the states remain best positioned to regulate the use of hydraulic fracturing for the production of oil and natural gas.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Many governments and NGOs have already generated reports on the effects of climate change and security. The drought was ongoing between 2006-2009 . This post is part of a series of blogs written by Vermont Law School students visiting Bonn, Germany as part of the Vermont Law School COP 23/CMP13 Observer Delegation. .

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