Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rather than simply requesting the company disclose information related to production of greenhouse gas emissions, the court weighed the impacts of climate change as part of its balancing test to determine whether the project was in the public interest. Interestingly enough, it cites not only Australian case law, but U.S. Section 4.15(1)

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The Energy Law

APRIL 7, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. In October 2009, new EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that EPA would reconsider and accept public comment on the Johnson memorandum.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule.

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Law of the Lands

JANUARY 16, 2019

On November 8, 2018, the Board issued its Reasons for Decision in a case involving allegations of disturbances due to odour, flies, dust, light, noise and vibration arising from the operation of a biodigester at a large greenhouse operation. The Application was brought by a number of residents living in the vicinity of the operation in 2015.

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. Brazil’s Climate Fund was established in 2009 as a financial instrument of the National Climate Policy Plan. In practice, the law in question is overridden by the treaty.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post details the latter: it discusses how a 2022 bilateral agreement between Belgium and Denmark authorizing the provisional application of the 2009 amendment to the London Protocol on CO 2 export was instrumental for this cross-border operation. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Modeling from Evolved Energy Research (where our panelist Jeremy Hargreaves is a principal) and Princeton University shows that reaching the IRA’s full potential for greenhouse-gas reductions will require transmission capacity to grow at a rate of about 2.3% per year—double last decade’s growth rate. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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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. In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

This is not the first time that the legislature has diverted RGGI proceeds for other purposes—it also diverted $90 million in 2009 and $41 million in 2015 to the general fund. Jessica Wentz. Associate Director and Fellow. If the Senate proposal is approved, the diversions will total $269 million—nearly 30% of the $925.8

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Moreover, they have more potential to contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation via carbon sequestration. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. Diverse plants and manure must take their place.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

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). However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past. Accordingly, the Directive as well as the Regulation differentiate between rules applicable to natural gas and gases more broadly defined. 2 (11) rGD).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As I blogged about last October, the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is currently undergoing its 2012 program review. When the program’s allowance budgets were set for the years 2009 through 2012, administrators assumed that natural gas prices would remain high and that electricity demand would be robust and growing.

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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. State statutes, case law, and regulatory frameworks for water resources in the Northeast are very different from those found in the western part of the United States.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It is one thing when government leaders make an ESG claim: In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?).

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Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

through greenhouse gas emissions or changes in carbon sequestration). This language was only on the books for five months before the Obama administration enacted a 2009 amendment to remove it. There is no statutory basis for simply ignoring greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration impacts in section 7 consultations.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. While these targets were established voluntarily, they became mandatory once the Paris Agreement was promulgated as national law in Brazil through an executive decree.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources. economy and to significantly contribute to its greenhouse gas reduction efforts. Still, how does a local government tap in? green banks”).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. In 2009, the U.S. There are many others. That certainly helped balance sheets as U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

And near the end of Bush’s term, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the power to regulate greenhouse gases under a 1970 air pollution law. Still, there was hope that after Bush, Congress would step up and pass a new climate law. California passed ambitious climate legislation without waiting for the federal government.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

During my sabbatical in 2008 I lived in Beijing and taught for a semester at the China University of Political Science and Law. China’s rapid development led to a dangerous deterioration in environmental conditions, convincing the Communist Party to make environmental law an important priority. In 2009 the U.S.

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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 215.).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

State law often provides that, in assessing the public interest, the regulator can consider “only the interests of in-state residents and businesses.” greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. That must change if the U.S.

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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.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Columbia Center for Climate Change Law. In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It also suggests that funds going to nonprofits that support implementation of laws, especially in places where there are disproportionately high concentrations of pollution, such as from vehicle emissions or industrial activities, should instead be given to states.

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